Mabel Haynes Bode (28 October 1864 – 20 January 1922) was one of the first women to enter the academic fields of Pali, Sanskrit and Buddhist studies.
Her father was a well-known law publisher and bookseller, and a partner in the firm Stevens & Haynes.
In 1895, she attended the Sanskrit lectures of Professor Cecil Bendall at University College London.
In 1896 she attended lectures in Classical and Vedic Sanskrit of Prof. Sylvain Lévi at the Collège de France in Paris and Prof. Victor Henry at Sorbonne besides those of Prof. Sylvain Lévi and Prof. Louis Finot at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes.
[citation needed] She gave her debut lecture Women leaders of the Buddhist Reformation at the ninth International Congress of Orientalists in London in 1892.
[1] She contributed materials to The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary of T. W. Rhys Davids and William Stede.
[citation needed] In 1918, she moved to reside with her sister and brother-in-law in London, and then to The Chantry, Shaftesbury, Dorset, where she died on 20 January 1922.
Her gravestone's inscription reads "Et prope et procul usave cor cordium dum vivam et ultra".