Fw: H-ASIA: E. Gene Smith

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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 9:18 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: E. Gene Smith

> H-ASIA
> December 17, 2010
>
> Report of the death of E. Gene Smith
>
> (x-post Indology)
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> Ed. note: I post below a notice from Matthew Kapstein reporting the death
> of Ellis Gene Smith, the noted scholar of Tibetan Language and Culture. I
> hope we will be able to post a more complete obituary in the future. Gene
> Smith was a remarkable individual who, for many years was associated with
> the U.S. Library of Congress Field Office in Delhi--and also served in
> other locations--where he was involved witht he foreign language
> acquisition programs--originating in the old PL-480. In his Delhi
> position, he enabled LC to collect a broad range of Tibetan materials. For
> non-Tibetan specialists, Gene's Delhi home was an intellectual
> caravansarai where visiting scholars and local intellectuals gathered. In
> a sense, his was a modern incarnation of the "house of the open door" and
> hundreds of scholars benefitted from his generosity. Much more needs to
> be remembered about Gene--I hope we'll have a proper obituary later. FFC
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> From: Matthew Kapstein <mkapstei@UCHICAGO.EDU>
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> It is with much sorrow that I inform you of the passing of
> E. Gene Smith, former director of the US Library of Congress
> field office in India and founder of the Tibetan Buddhist
> Resource Center in New York.
>
> He was of course a friend to many of us, in Tibetan
> Studies and many other fields, and will be profoundly
> missed.
>
> Matthew T. Kapstein
> Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies
> The University of Chicago Divinity School
> Directeur d'etudes
> Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
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