Author Archives: Jeff Wallman

Chance Meeting With A Guru

By Dr. Bhagwan Dash It was somewhere in 1970, I was instigated by a professor of Delhi University to learn Tibetan. In search of a primer to learn Tibetan language, I went to meet a friend in American Library of Congress … Continue reading

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From Tashi Tsering

In Memory of Ellis Gene Smith (1936-2010) A keynote speech read by Tashi Tsering, Director of the Amnye Machen Institute at the, “Tibet House Salutes with Remembrance in Gratitude, Ellis Gene Smith (1936-2010)” organized by Tibet House, New Delhi at the India … Continue reading

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Smith Obituaries

Dear Friends, I have updated the page to include other obituaries for Gene. NY Times Tibet.cn Zangx.com Washington Post The Economist The Telegraph The London Times Huffington Post Best wishes, Jeff Jeff Wallman Executive Director Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center

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From the Twelfth Kenting Tai Situpa

To family and friends of Gene Smith, Words cannot express the great service Gene Smith gave throughout his life to the preservation of Buddhist Dharma. His every effort for decades was to save precious Tibetan manuscripts from being lost. Not only that, … Continue reading

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From Chögyal Namkhai Norbu

Säo Paolo, December 22, 2010 It is with deep sadness that I heard that Gene Smith passed away.  Gene has been  an unpretentious and altruistic man, a true scholar whose extraordinary work in favor of the Buddha Dharma and of … Continue reading

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From Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche

25, December 2011 To TBRC members and friends I am writing this letter on behalf of Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche, the present Supreme Head of the Nyingma Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as from my own side. Gene’s contribution to … Continue reading

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From Michael Sheehy

A week ago Friday at dawn, after mourning all night, I rolled my legs over the bedside and gazed out the window into the gray-glow skyscape of New York City. “I live in a world without Gene Smith” was my … Continue reading

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From Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal. December 21, 2010. All my dear brothers and sisters who have been helping with the library work for our kindest wish-fulfilling Gene Smith, It was quite a surprise that our dear Gene passed away. I don’t … Continue reading

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From Thrangu Rinpoche

Thrangu Rinpoche’s Message on the Passing of Gene Smith The tremendous and unstinting work that Gene Smith has done for decades, in helping to preserve and spread the Dharma and, thereby, bring the deepest joy to living beings, has brought … Continue reading

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From Lungtok Tenpai Nyima, 33rd Abbot of Menri

The following was received today from Menri Trizin 33rd in Dolanji: Deepest condolences… Dear Jeff Wallman, Board Members and Staff of TBRC, Please accept my deepest condolences for the loss of Gene Smith. It was a shock for me to … Continue reading

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From Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje

Message from His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje From the time the Buddhadharma arrived in Tibet, the translation and production of texts formed a key area of activity, mobilizing and shaping Tibetan culture. During the mass exodus … Continue reading

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From Peter Skilling

A leaf falls Into the pond Before it sinks Its ripples spread Across the universe

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From Matthieu Ricard

In Memoriam: E. Gene Smith (1936-2010) It is with immense sadness that we heard of the untimely death of our dear friend and mentor Gene Smith. Gene was one of those luminaries that come once or twice in a century, … Continue reading

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From Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

In Memory of Gene Smith Survival of the Buddhadharma depends on vision, courage, determination and strength of the dharma upholders. We have witnessed in history that there is always an individual and usually an unsung person who would serve and … Continue reading

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From Chosen

རྒྱལ་བ་ཀུན་གྱི་ཡེ་ཤེས་གཅིག་བསྡུས་སྐུ།། སྲིད་དུ་བཟུང་བ་འཇམ་དབྱངས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་ཞེས།། མཚན་དོན་མཉམ་པའི་དམ་པ་བཀའ་དྲིན་ཅན།། མཁས་དབང་འཇམ་དབྱངས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་ཁྱོད་ཉིད་རྒྱལ།། ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་དྲུང་ན་ལོ་མང་རྟག་འགྲུས་ཀྱིས།། རིག་གཞུང་དོན་དུ་གཉེར་བའི་མང་ཐོས་དག། དྲི་བསུང་རླུང་གིས་བསྐྱོད་པའི་སྨན་ལྗོངས་བཞིན།། བསེར་བུས་བསྐུལ་བའི་མཛད་བཟང་ཆ་ཙམ་བརྗོད།། ཁྱོད་ཉིད་ཡེ་ནས་མཁྱེན་པའི་དཔལ་ལྡན་པས།། ཤེས་པར་བྱ་བའི་ཤེས་བྱ་མི་སྲིད་མོད།། འོན་ཏེ་འགྲོ་བའི་བསམ་པ་དང་མཐུན་པར།། ཤེས་བྱའི་གནས་ལ་སྦྱངས་པའི་ཕུལ་དུ་ཕྱིན།། གཞོན་ནུའི་དུས་ནས་ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཕྲོ་སད་དེ།། ཅི་ཞིག་ཚོལ་བའི་འདུན་པ་དྲག་ཏུ་འཁྲུངས།། མཁྱེན་རབ་དབང་ཕྱུག་སྡེ་གཞུང་དང་མཇལ་ཚེ།། འདུན་མ་འགྲུབ་པའི་ཉམས་ཀྱིས་ཞབས་པད་བསྟེན།། གང་གི་གསུང་ལས་ཁ་བ་རི་པ་ཡི།། ཉམས་གུད་གྱུར་པའི་གསུང་རབ་ཇི་སྙེད་ཀུན།། མྱུར་སྐྱོབས་བྱོས་ཞེས་སྐུལ་མ་མཛད་མ་ཉིད།། བཀའ་གསུང་ཅི་བཞིན་སྒྲུབ་པའི་དམ་བཅའ་མཛད།། ཐུགས་བསྐྱེད་རྨད་དུ་བྱུང་བའི་མ་ཕམ་ལས།། ལེགས་འཁྲུངས་གཙུག་ལག་ཡལ་འདབ་བྱེ་བ་ཅན།། སྤེལ་དང་འཛིན་པའི་སྙིང་སྟོབས་གོ་ཆ་ཡིས།། གྲིབ་བསིལ་གཅིག་གིས་ས་ཀུན་བསིལ་བར་བྱས།། ཕྱི་ཡི་ཤེས་བྱས་ཁྱེད་ཉིད་རབ་རུ་ཕྱུག ནང་གི་ཤེས་བྱས་ཁྱོད་ཉིད་རབ་ཏུ་བརྗིད།། གསང་བའི་ཡོནཏན་གསང་བ་བསམ་མི་ཁྱབ།། ཁྱོད་ཉིད་འདི་ནས་བྲལ་བར་ཡིད་གདུང་ཆེ།། ཁྱེད་ཀྱིས་བདག་ལ་ཕ་བཞིན་ལྟོ་གོས་སྩལ།། དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་བཞིན་རིག་པའི་ལམ་དུ་བཙུད།། བློས་ཐུབ་གྲོགས་བཞིན་སྐྱོན་ཡོན་སྦ་གསང་མེད།། ཁྱོད་ཉིད་འདི་ནས་བྲལ་བར་ལྷག་པར་སྐྱོ།། མུ་འཐུད་འགོད་རྒྱུ།

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From Alak Zankar Rinpoche Tudeng Nima

A Loving Bodhisattva Our friend Gene Smith lived amongst us as an extraordinary person who will be missed by all who had the honor of knowing him. It was in London, in 1997,  that I met with Gene for the first … Continue reading

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From Jeff

Your thunder is my chaos I wander as a small child in the wake of thought-form, dream-space. If I reach out now will you show me? Where are we going?  I am holding strong. You have showed me immense kindness … Continue reading

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Eulogies for Gene

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of E. Gene Smith on the afternoon of 16 December. He was a Dharma friend, mentor and shepherd to so many throughout the world. Please feel free to leave your … Continue reading

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