[INDOLOGY] Steven Collins

[Dominik Wujastyk]

This is indeed very sad news.  Steve was a brilliant scholar and charming
friend to all.  Steve and I coincided at Oxford, many years ago, where we
became friends.  I will miss him.

Dominik

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Professor Dominik Wujastyk <http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk>
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Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
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Department of History and Classics <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
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University of Alberta, Canada
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South Asia at the U of A:

​sas.ualberta.ca​
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On 16 February 2018 at 10:05, Eltschinger, Vincent via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> Since apparently nobody reported about the extremely sad news of the
> sudden passing of Steven Collins, I allow myself to forward the message
> posted this morning by Charles Hallisey on H-Buddhism.
>
>
> *Notice> Steven Collins (1951-2018)
> <https://networks.h-net.org/user/login?destination=node/1386999>*
>
> by Charles Hallisey
>
> I write, with a shock, sadness, and grief beyond any words that I know, to
> pass on the news that Steven Collins has died suddenly in New Zealand,
> where he had just gone to teach a special series of seminars.
>
>
> Steven Collins was many things to many of us.  He was, of course, Chester
> D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities in the Department of South Asian
> Languages and Civilization at the University of Chicago.
>
> But to me, he was, above all, my friend.
>
>
> The Buddha was right when he said that life is uncertain, death is certain,
>
>
> but Marx was also right when he said that death is hard for the living,
>
>
> Charles Hallisey
> Harvard Divinity School
>
>
> Vincent Eltschinger, korrespondierendes Mitglied der OeAW
> Directeur d'études
> École Pratique des Hautes Études, Section des sciences religieuses
> Patios Saint-Jacques, 4-14 rue Ferrus - 75014 Paris
> vincent.eltschinger at ephe.sorbonne.fr
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