Paul Thieme was awarded the 1988 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for "he added immensely to our knowledge of Vedic and other classical Indian literature and provided a solid foundation to the study of the history of Indian thought".[1]
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^"1988 NEUSTADT INTERNATIONAL PRIZE". World Literature Today - The University of Oklahoma. Archived from the original on 2012-04-17. Retrieved 23 January 2013.