A Journey
I join you all in great sorrow over the loss of our precious Gene Smith.
From the day I met Gene in 1998, and after I started working for TBRC in 2004, I began a journey of good fortune for the past seven years. As an embodiment of wisdom and compassion he gently guided and taught me more in these years than in many lifetimes.
We have lost a great pillar of Tibetology and Buddhism in Gene Smith, but his mind and knowledge will continue living with us.
I pledge to continue to devote all of my work efforts to his mission to the best of my abilities.
Our thoughts and prayers are with Gene, for his peaceful journey.
I deeply mourn his leaving and will hold him in my heart forever.
May his immaculate benefit to this world remain for a very long time.
