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'''Hans Wolfgang Schumann''' (31 January 1928 – 26 June 2019)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Traueranzeigen von Hans Wolfgang Schumann {{!}} GA-Trauer.de|url=https://trauer.ga.de/traueranzeige/hans-wolfgang-schumann|access-date=2021-01-26|website=trauer.ga.de|language=de-DE}}</ref> was a German diplomat as well as an Indologist and Buddhologist.<br />
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== Life ==<br />
Schumann was born in [[Düsseldorf]], Germany. After an apprenticeship as a [[book publisher]], he studied Indology, religious studies, ethnology, comparative religions and social anthropology at the [[University of Bonn]] in 1951.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}} In 1957 he received his Ph.D. degree for a thesis on Buddhist philosophy, while there he worked under [[Gustav Mensching]] in the subject of Indology with an investigation into the ''Bedeutung und Bedeutungsentwicklung des Terminus Samkhara im frühen Buddhismus (Meaning and development of the meaning of the term Samkhara in early Buddhism)''. From 1960 to 1963 he worked as a lecturer at the [[Banaras Hindu University]] in India. In 1963, he had joined the Foreign services of the Federal Republic of Germany and served in consular and diplomatic capacities at the West German missions such as [[Kolkata]], [[Yangon]], [[Chicago]], and [[Colombo]] as a lecturer to teach German language through the [[German Academic Exchange Service]].{{citation needed|date=March 2021}} In 1985 to 1986 he held a teaching position in Buddhism at the University of Bonn. Until his retirement in 1988 he was the Consul-General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Mumbai. Later Schumann was the recipient of the [[Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize]] for his works about Buddhism.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Schumann|first=Hans Wolfgang|title=Handbuch Buddhismus die zentralen Lehren: Ursprung und Gegenwart|year=2000 |isbn=978-3-7205-2153-6|location=Kreuzlingen|oclc=247618883}}</ref> He died in [[Bonn]].<br />
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== Works ==<br />
* ''Der Mahāyāna-Buddhismus: Die zweite Drehung des Dharma-Rades''. Diederichs, München, 1990.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Schumann, Hans Wolfgang.|title=Der Mahāyāna-Buddhismus : die zweite Drehung des Dharma-Rades|date=1990|publisher=Diederichs|isbn=3-424-01016-2|location=München|oclc=26448403}}</ref> <br />
* ''Der historische Buddha: Leben und Lehre des Gotama''. Diederichs Gelbe Reihe, München 2004.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Schumann, Hans Wolfgang 1928-|title=Der historische Buddha Leben und Lehre des Gotama|year=2004 |isbn=978-3-89631-439-0|edition=Aktualisierte Neuausg|location=Kreuzlingen|oclc=249748353}}</ref><br />
* ''Handbuch Buddhismus: Die zentralen Lehren: Ursprung und Gegenwart''. Diederichs, Kreuzlingen / München 2000.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Schumann, Hans Wolfgang 1928-|title=Handbuch Buddhismus die zentralen Lehren: Ursprung und Gegenwart|year=2000 |isbn=978-3-7205-2153-6|location=Kreuzlingen|oclc=247618883}}</ref> <br />
* ''Die grossen Götter Indiens: Grundzüge von Hinduismus und Buddhismus''. Hugendubel 2004.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Schumann, Hans Wolfgang.|title=Die grossen Götter Indiens : Grundzüge von Hinduismus und Buddhismus|date=2004|publisher=Hugendubel|isbn=3-89631-429-7|location=Kreuzlingen|oclc=56068287}}</ref> <br />
* ''Buddhismus: Stifter, Schulen und Systeme''. Diederichs Gelbe Reihe, München 2005.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Schumann, Hans Wolfgang 1928-|title=Buddhismus Stifter, Schulen und Systeme|year=2005 |isbn=978-3-7205-2652-4|edition=Überarb. Neuausg|location=Kreuzlingen|oclc=181458053}}</ref><br />
* ''Buddhabildnisse – Ihre Symbolik und Geschichte''. Werner Kristkeitz Verlag, Heidelberg 2007.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Schumann, Hans Wolfgang.|title=Buddhabildnisse : ihre Symbolik und Geschichte|date=2003|publisher=Werner Kristkeitz|isbn=3-932337-03-4|edition=Originalausg|location=Heidelberg/Leimen|oclc=57541099}}</ref><br />
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== Biographies of H.W. Schumann ==<br />
* [[Axel Rodeck]]: ''[http://www.schattenblick.de/infopool/religion/buddha/rbpre697.html Ein Indologe und Buddhist. Zum 80. Geburtstag von Dr. Hans Wolfgang Schumann]''. <br />
* [[Volker Zotz]]: H''ans Wolfgang Schumann zum 80. Geburtstag''. In: ''Buddhismus aktuell''. August/2/2008.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Gowland|first=F.|title=Parasites Prefer Hungry Flies |date=2003-04-01|journal=Journal of Experimental Biology|volume=206|issue=7|pages=1104|doi=10.1242/jeb.00188|issn=0022-0949|doi-access=free}}</ref><br />
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