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Comment on Respects from Southwest University Library, Chengdu by レイバン店舗

レイバン店舗 — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:20:59 +0000

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Comment on From Tashi Tsering by Chung Tsering

Chung Tsering — Sat, 28 May 2011 16:19:52 +0000

མཁས་དབང་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཚེ་རིང་མཆོག་གིས། དོན་སྙིང་ལྡན་ཞིང་ཞིབ་ཆ་ཆེ་བའི་ལེགས་རྩོམ་འདི་སྤེལ་བ་ལ་བསྔགས་བརྗོད་ཡོད། འདི་བཀླགས་རྗེས་ཕྲན་ལ་བློ་སྐྱེད་ཆེན་པོ་བྱུང་། ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ།

Comment on From Tashi Tsering by samphe lhalungpa

samphe lhalungpa — Mon, 23 May 2011 12:25:06 +0000

Wow Tashila – what a tour de force, you have done the memory of Gene Smith proud by your piece and conveyed a sense of the critical role he played in such an important area. As you rightly state, he was in regular contact with my father, the late lobsang lhalungpa, and I have such direct memories, to say nothing of photographs of Gene with my parents…the veritable explosion of printing that took place meant that I caught the ink bug early as I tagged along with my father to the byways of old delhi and the clackety clack of printing machines…..after a long break, I was very happy to meet him some 4 years ago in New York and exchange memories of old days in india..as a scholar of tibetan you are well placed to gauge his contribution — in fact, we consulted Gene after my fathers passing for the best location of his many many pejas…and as always, he was generous with his time and energy. We could do worse than name some significant library/collection in his memory, as we seem so carried away by celebrity, this gives us a sense of the very real contributions that someone like Gene can make – long lasting, persistent and engaged, long after the celebrities have migrated to other more ” happening” causes…..warmest….Samphe

Comment on About by Linda Mancini

Linda Mancini — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 01:57:27 +0000

Thank you for creating this space where we can remember Gene together. What a splendid life indeed, what great work he accomplished and established. It was my honor to meet him twice. In 2003 at the first Tibetan Buddhist Centers of the Americas meeting in Garrison, NY, he was delightfully happy to see colleagues. I have a photo that I’ll send along. And in his old wooden house in Cambridge, where wonderful texts were stacked to the ceiling in every room, on the day when Lawrence Pintak interviewed him. Gene was deeply pleased to finally find a fine home for TBRC and the collection in New York. His life’s work was so pivotal to the preservation of Tibetan culture – he changed the world for the better.

Comment on E. Gene Smith by cecilial

cecilial — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:49:30 +0000

Gene was one of the most generous people I have ever met. It was wonderful to have known him. I remember many happy times, with him and my late husband, Hallvard Kare (Hal) Kuloy in the late sixties and through the seventies, in Delhi and Kathmandu. For those who mentioned his Dalmatian dog, Dorje: Dorje’s parents were our Dalmatians, Sleipner and Freya. It is very sad that Gene is no longer with us.
Cecilia Leslie,
Oslo, Norway

Comment on Memorial Service by Public Memorial for E. Gene Smith « Go beyond words: Wisdom Publications’ Buddhist Blog

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:35:43 +0000

[…] A public memorial service is planned for February 12, 2011 at 2:00 PM at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, New York. Interested parties can [email protected] for further information. […]

Comment on Smith Obituaries by Dina Wadhwa

Dina Wadhwa — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 04:33:53 +0000

I am really sad to hear about the death of Mr. E. Gene Smith. I have known Mr. Smith from 1965 and have worked under him for 20 years. He was a Tibetan scholar and had vast knowledge of Indic studies. He could understand and speak several Indian languages. He was a good friend of many Indian scholars. In Delhi, his personal book collection was not only of Tibetan books but included books from India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. His collection was used by research scholars. He was such a good host that his house was always full with guests. He was my host when I visited Jakarta. He came personally to receive me at the airport. He gave special instructions to his house manager about my food as he knew I am a vegetarian. He will always be remembered by his friends.

Comment on Statement by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche On the Passing of E. Gene Smith, 1936-2010 by Statement by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche On the Passing of E. Gene Smith, 1936-2010 | VajraTV: Global Buddhist Television Network

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 05:34:40 +0000

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Comment on E. Gene Smith by Satnishan

Satnishan — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:42:24 +0000

With Gene’s and all the others that support(ed) this amassing work, I’m sure the cyclic rebirth for Gene has transcended many realms. We must keep our hearts opened to all. The Dharma continues…here and now. Om Mani Padme Hum..

Comment on Gene Smith New Delhi 1978 by Jeff Wallman

Jeff Wallman — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 23:08:31 +0000

Thank you! Wonderful story.