Alexander Piatigorsky
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Alexander Piatigorsky (Russian: Александр Пятигорский, born 1929) is a Russian philosopher and scholar of Buddhism and Indian philosophy.
He taught at the Moscow State University until 1974, and thenceforth at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, where he later became the Professor of the History of South Asia.
In his early years he collaborated with Yuri Lotman and Merab Mamardashvili, amongst others, and wrote a number of articles on semiotics. He also wrote the first ever Russian - Tamil dictionary. Since then, he has published books on Buddhist Philosophy, Phenomenology and myth, and Freemasonry, as well as several novels in Russian. He is the subject of 'Philosopher Escaped' (2005) a documentary film directed by Uldis Tirons.
