Lance Cousins, RIP

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Lance Cousins, RIP

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From another forum:

  • Dear Colleagues,

    It is with sadness that I write to the list to inform members of the death of Lance Cousins at the age of 72. I understand that Lance died suddenly last Friday in Oxford. Lance will be known to many members of this list both from his publications and his contributions to the list; many will also have benefited from the generous way in which he shared his learning by way of comment and advice. Lance studied history and then oriental studies at Cambridge before being appointed Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in Comparative Religion at the University of Manchester where he taught Buddhism, Hinduism, comparative mysticism, Pali and Sanskrit. He took early retirement in the 1990s, moving to Oxford where he taught Buddhism in the Faculty of Theology and Pali and Middle Indian in the Faculty of Oriental Studies. Lance served as President of the UK Association for Buddhist Studies and of the Pali Text Society. His published articles concern the history of Buddhist schools, Abhidhamma literature and thought, as well as Pali, Middle Indian and Buddhist Sanskrit textual studies. Lance was also a founding member of the Samatha Trust and a much respected teacher of samatha meditation. He will be remembered by many as a true paṇḍita.

    Funeral arrangements have yet to be announced.

    With best wishes,
    Rupert Gethin
    Professor of Buddhist Studies
    University of Bristol
    Department of Religion and Theology
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    Prof. Cousins with Ven. Wei Wu and Prof. Y. Karunadasa, on the occasion of their being awarded honorary doctorates by Mahamakut Buddhist University, Bangkok in 2013
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It turns out otherwise.
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I liked him. He'll be missed.
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He was a true scholar.

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A tribute page on the website of the Samatha Trust:
http://www.samatha.org/lance-cousins


A collection of Lance Cousins' articles:
https://oxford.academia.edu/LSCousins
Yena yena hi maññanti,
tato taṃ hoti aññathā.


In whatever way they conceive it,
It turns out otherwise.
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Lance with his teacher Nai Boonman (formerly Phra Puññadhīro)

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Yena yena hi maññanti,
tato taṃ hoti aññathā.


In whatever way they conceive it,
It turns out otherwise.
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Dhammanando wrote:A tribute page on the website of the Samatha Trust:
http://www.samatha.org/lance-cousins


A collection of Lance Cousins' articles:
https://oxford.academia.edu/LSCousins
Thanks for these articles. A treasure trove.
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Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies' obituary by Sarah Shaw.

http://ocbs.org/news-ocbsmain-88/374-oc ... 15?start=1
Yena yena hi maññanti,
tato taṃ hoti aññathā.


In whatever way they conceive it,
It turns out otherwise.
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