Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth (JDV) paid tribute to Professor Raimundo Panikkar on 29th August, 2011. He was born on 3rd November, 1918 in Barcelona. His father was an Indian of Hindu faith and his mother a Catalan Catholic. He was ordained as a priest in 1946 and in the same year he got his Ph.D. in philosophy and in 1958 in Science at the University of Madrid and in 1961 in Theology at the Lateran University in Rome. He has lived and in India, in Rome and in the USA. He passed away on 26 August 2010.
He had contributed to philosophical thinking and theological understanding through his writings particularly to the Church in India. In collaboration with Association of Christian Philosophers of India, the JDV College organised half a day of programmes for the students and professors at Papal Seminary Hall, Pune (JDV compound itself) from 8.40 am to 12.55 pm.
The Dean of Theology, Fr Thomas Kuriacose, SJ., gave an introduction about Prof. Panikkar as an opening address. There were 3 invited guest speakers who gave inputs on writings of Panikkar. Prof Francis X. D’Sa, SJ presented on “Sacred Secularity: Panikkar in a Pluralistic World” and followed by Prof Anand Amaladass, SJ spoke on “Panikkar’s Vision of Hindu-Christian theology and finally Prof Jacob Parapally, MSFS., presented on “Panikkar: From Christology to Christophany”. There was a 30-minute questions, clarification and interaction session given to the students before Fr Errol D’Lima, SJ furnished the highlight of the seminar. We ended the seminar with the JDV anthem.
Panikkar had coined many philosophical terms such as Ecosophy, cosmotheandric, theandropocosmic, etc which is the new wisdom of the earth. One of the great sayings of Panikkar is: “I started as a Christian; I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without ever having ceased to be a Christian”.
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