Juan Arnau | |
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 Juan Arnau in 2019. | |
| Native name | Juan María Arnau Navarro |
| Born | April 28, 1968 Spain, Valencia |
| Occupation | Writer, teacher |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Genre | Eastern philosophies and religions |
Juan Arnau (Valencia, April 28, 1968), Spanish philosopher and essayist, a specialist in Eastern philosophies and religions.
After a few years working as a sailor and several trips to Africa, Juan Arnau studied Astrophysics at the Complutense University of Madrid, where he graduated in 1994.
He traveled to India in 1995, with a fellowship from the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI) and at the University of Varanasi (Banaras Hindu University, BHU), where he began his studies of Indian philosophy and culture with Catalan Sanskritist Oscar Pujol.
From India he went to Mexico, where he did his PhD at the Centre for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México, studying Sanskrit with Rashik Vihari Joshi.
After completing his PhD he moved to Ann Arbor (Michigan) for six years, where he did postdoctoral research at the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures of the University of Michigan, with Luis Ó. Gomez. Meanwhile, he taught Spanish, and Latin American Literature and Cinema, in the Department of Romance Languages.
Currently a researcher at the Institute of History of Medicine and Science López Piñero (CSIC-University of Valencia) and associate professor at the University of Barcelona. [1]
Juan Arnau has made the critical editions, translated directly from Sanskrit, from the philosophical treatises of Nāgārjuna, as well as from the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads :
He has also translated:
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