"（1903-1983）. Belgian Buddhologist， chief disciple of Louis de la Vallee Poussin， and renowned especially for his work on Indian Buddhism. For forty-five years （1932-1977）， Lamotte was a professor at the Catholic University of Louvain. He was a member of the Academie Royale de Belgique and the Institut de France. He was also an Honorary Fellow of the International Association of Buddhist Studies. He will most likely be remembered for his monumental volume Histoire du Bouddhisme Indien， published in 1958 and translated into English by Sara Webb-Boin in 1988. Additionally however， Lamotte brought out editions and/or translations of a number of other extremely important Buddhist texts， including the Vimalakirti Sutra （1962）， and the introductory chapter of Nagarjuna's Maha-Prajnaparamita-sastra （1944-1980）."