Richard G. Salomon (professor of Asian studies)

Richard G. Salomon is the William P. and Ruth Gerberding University Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington.

[1] Salomon is a Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit-languages scholar, known for his studies on Indian epigraphy.

[4] Salomon received his Ph.D. in Sanskrit (with Distinction) from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975 and a B.A.

in Oriental Studies (minor in Religion) from Columbia University in 1970.

[5] In 2016, the Puget Sound Association of Phi Beta Kappa honored him with its Humanities Achievement Award "in recognition of his study of the Gandharan manuscripts, which illuminate the oldest period of Buddhist culture for which documents exist, and the dissemination of its results.