Staff Profile

EXPIRED - 2017-07-07

Home City / Country: Mumbai / India

About:

1966:
Joined Campion
1967:
Left to continue his studies in Sanskrit. Besides being a good administrator of the University level college he was also a Sanskrit scholar. Fr. Noel Sheth, S.J. was Professor of Indian Philosophies and Religions at Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth, Pontifical Institute of Philosophy and Religion, Pune, India, where he was the former Principal. He was also a former Rector of Papal Seminary, Pune. A reputed scholar in Sanskrit and Pali, his name was in the Who's Who of Sanskrit Scholars of India and, on several occasions, he had chaired sections of the World Sanskrit Conferences. He received a request from the Japanese Organizing Committee of the 14th World Sanskrit Conference which was held in Kyoto, Japan, in 2009, to be the Chief Chairperson of the "History of Religion" Section of the Conference. He was a Gold Medallist of the University of Pune, having secured a first class first in his M.A. (Sanskrit-Pali) in the University of Pune and won several prizes and scholarships. He holds a doctorate in Sanskrit from Harvard University, U.S.A, where he was awarded a full scholarship. He also holds a postgraduate degrees in Philosophy and Theology. He had studied eleven languages, four of which are classical languages: Sanskrit, Pali, Latin and Greek.
He had received many awards from different institutions. An important award was the "Dr. Sam Higginbottom Award for the Best Principals of India, 2004-2005.
His publications dealt with the exegesis of Sanskrit and Pali texts, on Hinduism, Buddhism and on comparative philosophy and theology. His book, The Divinity of Krishna, is mentioned in the prestigious Encyclopedia of Religion in both the first as well as second editions. He was a member of several learned bodies. In addition, till very recently he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Conference of Catholic Theological Institutions (COCTI) and President of the India and Oceania sectors of COCTI, and a member of the Rectors (Principals) Committee and of the Administrative Board of the International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU). He was instrumental through his Speech to attract the majority of the participants of the last COCTI Meeting in Paris in February 2008 to vote in favour of Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth as the venue for the next COCTI Meeting in 2011. Just recently in the Philippines, he was elected as one of the five Vice-Presidents (one for each continent) of the Conference of Catholic University Institutions of Philosophy (COMIUCAP); he was in charge of Asia and Oceania. He teaght many courses in Hinduism, a course on Buddhism, and a course on Religions in India, that included Zoroastrianism, Jainism and Sikhism. He was a Visiting Professor in several universities in India and abroad.
Incidentally he was also the brother of Late Mr. Joe Sheth who taught English at Campion.