Phd in CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA AND AFRICA

email: bruno.loturco@uniroma1.it
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Bruno Lo Turco is Professor of Religions and Philosophies of India. He graduated from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in Philosophy (Indology) in 1994. He obtained a diploma in Library Science in 1996 from the Vatican Library. Following this he was awarded with a doctorate in Indological Studies (Classical and Medieval) from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1999. His dissertation outlined the Moksopaya (The path to freedom), a philosophical Sanskrit treatise in verse, datable to the tenth century, extraordinarily extensive and unclassifiable with any known school of thought. Lo Turco collaborated with the Italian Encyclopedia on the Storia della scienza. This included writing entries for the section on Indian science, iconography, translating contributions and editing. Between 2001 and 2005 he was given a scholarship by the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, continued by the Faculty of Oriental Studies, to further elaborate his work on the Moksopaya. He was a founder and directing editor of the journal Rivista di Studi Sudasiatici. Recently he completed the critical edition of all fragments of Bhaskarakantha‘s commentary on the sixth book of the Moksopaya. In addition he works on the relationship between modernity and Indian philosophico-religious thought, on orality and literacy in classical and medieval India, on the suttee, on the history of Oriental Studies in Italy.