A. Piatigorsky passed away

[Michael Witzel]

Dear All, I transmit sad news, received via our PhD candidate, N.  
Yanchevskaya (ABD).

MW

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Alexander Piatigorsky, the renowned Russian philosopher, writer, and  
scholar of
Buddhism and Indian philosophy, has passed away yesterday, October  
25, 2009, in
London at the age of 80.

Here are announcements and obituaries in Russian:

<http://www.russ.ru/pole/Umer-Pyatigorskij>

<http://lenta.ru/news/2009/10/25/piatigorsky/>

<http://www.rian.ru/culture/20091025/190552732.html>

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Nataliya Yanchevskaya
Dept. of Sanskrit and Indian Studies
Harvard University


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