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

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Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity

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Department of History and Classics

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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@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)

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@ephe.sorbonne.fr
0033 1 56 61 17 34 / 0033 7 85 86 84 05

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