Dear Friends,
I have updated the page to include other obituaries for Gene.
Best wishes,
Jeff
Jeff Wallman
Executive Director
Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center
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Letters
- Chance Meeting With A Guru August 12, 2013
- གོང་དཀར་བ་བློ་གསལ་དོན་གྲུབ་ཀྱིས་ཕྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༡༡ ཟླ་བ་ ༡༢ ཚེས་ ༢༣ དགེ་བའི་ཉིན་གུས་ཕྱག་བཅས་ཕུལ། January 3, 2012
- From Tashi Tsering May 6, 2011
- A Mountain among Hillsides, An Ocean among Streams… February 18, 2011
- From Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, seat of His Holiness Karmapa in North America February 18, 2011
- དྲན་གསོའི་མཆོད་སྡོང་། February 18, 2011
- To the Family of E. Gene Smith, to his colleagues and to our mutual friends, February 7, 2011
- From the Ven. Lama Chime Rinpoche, Kagyu Benchen Ling, Todtmoos-Au, Germany February 2, 2011
- ༈ རྗེས་དྲན་པད་དཀར་འདབ་བརྒྱད། February 1, 2011
Archived Letters
- August 2013 (1)
- January 2012 (1)
- May 2011 (1)
- February 2011 (6)
- January 2011 (6)
- December 2010 (55)
I am really sad to hear about the death of Mr. E. Gene Smith. I have known Mr. Smith from 1965 and have worked under him for 20 years. He was a Tibetan scholar and had vast knowledge of Indic studies. He could understand and speak several Indian languages. He was a good friend of many Indian scholars. In Delhi, his personal book collection was not only of Tibetan books but included books from India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. His collection was used by research scholars. He was such a good host that his house was always full with guests. He was my host when I visited Jakarta. He came personally to receive me at the airport. He gave special instructions to his house manager about my food as he knew I am a vegetarian. He will always be remembered by his friends.