Raimondo panikkar biography

Raimon Panikkar Alemany, also known as Raimundo Panikkar and Raymond Panikkar (November 2, 1918 – August 26, 2010), was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and.
Panikkar lived in Madrid until 1950; during these years he taught Philosophy of History and Psychology at the University, taught Comparative Cultures at the.
Raimon Panikkar Alemany, also known as Raimundo Panikkar and Raymond Panikkar, was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and a proponent of Interfaith dialogue.

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Raimon Panikkar

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"By going from Raimundo Pániker to Raimon Panikkar, he was Catalanizing his first name and Indianizing his last, and both steps are quite significant. Panikkar always identified as a thinker with a Catalan and Indian background. His intercultural proposal, summarized in his interreligious mantra “I left a Christian, found myself to be Hindu and became a Buddhist, all without ever ceasing to be a Christian”, is inspired by this double background. It’s as if he was genetically destined to embrace multiple cultures and religions."

- Ignasi Moreta [1]

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"Raimon Panikkar Alemany, also known as Raimundo Panikkar and Raymond Panikkar (November 2, 1918 – August 26, 2010), was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and a proponent of Interfaith dialogue. As a scholar, he specialized in comparative religion.

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In 1946 he was ordained a Catholic priest and became a professor of philosophy at the University of Madrid.

He made his first trip to India in 1954 where he studied Indian philosophy and religion at

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Laudatio of Raimon Panikkar Alemany
during the solemn academic ceremony of his investiture as Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Girona
Presented by Prof. Josep-Maria Terricabras, sponsor of the new Doctor

It is an honour for me today to expound the merits of Raimon Panikkar Alemany on the occasion of his appointment as doctor honoris causa of our university in this solemn academic ceremony. Without a doubt Raimon Panikkar is the most internationally renowned catalan thinker alive today. His life and works testify to the huge thematic, geographic and linguistic scope of his thought which I will now present in summary.

Raimon Panikkar was born on November 3rd 1918 in Barcellona his father being an Indian of Hindu faith and his mother a Catalan Catholic. Thus, from his early childhood he was able to adopt, cultivate and speak of traditions within which he had always felt perfectly at home. He was ordained into the priesthood in1946 and in the same year he got Ph. D. in Philosophy and in 1958 in Science at the University of Madrid and in 1961 in Theology at the Latera

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Raimon Panikkar

Spanish-Indian Catholic priest and theologian (1918–2010)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Panikkar and the second or maternal family name is Alemany.

Raimon Panikkar
Panikkar in 2007
Born	Raimon Pannikar Alemany (1918-11-02)November 2, 1918 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Died	(2010-08-26)August 26, 2010 (aged 91) Tavertet, Catalonia, Spain
Occupation(s)	Roman Catholic priest, theologian, scholar, chemist, philosopher

Raimon Panikkar Alemany, also known as Raimundo Panikkar and Raymond Panikkar^[1] (November 2, 1918 – August 26, 2010), was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and a proponent of Interfaith dialogue. As a scholar, he specialized in comparative religion.

Early life and education

Raimon Panikkar was born to a Spanish Roman Catholic mother and a HinduIndian father in Barcelona.^[2] His mother was well-educated and from the Catalan bourgeoisie. His father, Ramunni Panikkar, belonged to a MalabarNair family from South India. Panikkar's father was a fr