[INDOLOGY] Padmanabh S. Jaini

[Matthew Kapstein]

I am very sorry to learn of Professor Jaini's passing.
Besides his remarkable learning, his unmatched mastery of the several fields of scholarship to which he profusely contributed,
we was a kind and generous mentor and friend, graced with good humor and great warmth.

He will be dearly missed.

Matthew

Matthew Kapstein
Directeur d'études, émérite
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris

Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
The University of Chicago
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Dear Eva,

This is devastating news. I appreciate your sharing it.

In sorrow,
Jeffery

Dr. Jeffery D. Long
Carl W. Ziegler Professor of Religion & Philosophy
Professor of Asian Studies
Elizabethtown College


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On Wednesday, May 26, 2021, 6:52 AM, eva de clercq via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

Dear all,

Some colleagues in India brought to our attention that Padmanabh S. Jaini, one of the greatest scholars of Jainism (and Buddhism), and professor at Berkeley, has passed away at the age of 97.
For an article on the publication of his memoirs: https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/a-world-of-learning-the-journey-of-padmanabh-jaini/cid/1686901
[https://assets.telegraphindia.com/telegraph/4706111b-4121-4774-82a1-509a3c8fc058.jpg]<https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/a-world-of-learning-the-journey-of-padmanabh-jaini/cid/1686901>
A world of learning: the journey of Padmanabh Jaini - Telegraph India<https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/a-world-of-learning-the-journey-of-padmanabh-jaini/cid/1686901>
In 1998, while teaching at the University of California at Berkeley, I befriended a scholar much older and far more learned than I. This was Padmanabh Jaini, a great authority on Buddhism and Jainism, with a profound knowledge of texts in half a dozen languages.
www.telegraphindia.com

With kind regards,

Eva

Eva De Clercq
Ghent University

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