Farewell to Prof. Géza Bethlenfalvy - obituary

Géza Bethlenfalvy, an Alexander Csoma de Kőrös Prize-winning scholar, university professor of Tibetology, former director of the Hungarian Cultural Institute in New Delhi, vice-president of the Csoma de Kőrös Society and a Hungarian professor at the University of Delhi, passed away at the age of eighty-five. Géza Bethlenfalvy, researcher Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, author of several books, passed away at his family residence on 18 November.

Géza Bethlenfalvy was born on 10 February 1936 in Hunfalva (Slovakia). He graduated from the Hungarian Indology Department of Eötvös Loránd University (Eötvös Loránd University) in 1963, and was a researcher at the Department of Central Asia of the Faculty of Arts, a member of the Altai Studies Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. From 1974 to 1980, he was a visiting professor at the University of Delhi. From 1994 to 2000 he was the director of the Hungarian Cultural Institute in New Delhi.

In 1991, he received the Csoma de Kőrös Award. He wrote about Hungarian scholars, mainly Alexander Csoma de Kőrös and other indologists, mongolists and tibetologists. Several volumes by him are about the sacred books of Buddhism.

Publication list of Prof. Géza Bethlenfalvy at Wikipedia