E. Gene Smith
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Born | August 10, 1936 Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center |
E. Gene Smith (August 10, 1936 – December 16, 2010) was a scholar of
Life and career
Ellis Gene Smith was born in
At Seattle, he was able to study with
In 1964 he completed his Ph.D. qualifying exams and traveled to
He began his studies with
He became field director of the Library of Congress Field Office in India in 1980[4] and served there until 1985 when he was transferred to Indonesia. He stayed in Jakarta running the Southeast Asian programs until 1994 when he was assigned to the Library of Congress Middle Eastern Office in Cairo.[4]
In 1997 he retired from the Library of Congress.[3] He briefly worked as a consultant for Trace Foundation for the establishment of the Himalayan and Inner Asian Resources in New York, an organisation dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of Tibetan literature.[5]
In 1999, Smith founded the
In 2001,
He is the subject of the award-winning documentary Digital Dharma.[8] Variety called the film "an affectionate tribute to the late E. Gene Smith, the scholar, librarian and ex-Mormon who waged a 50-year struggle to save the endangered texts of Tibetan Buddhism."[9] It received a theatrical release and was invited to qualify for Academy Award consideration by the International Documentary Association through the 2012 DocuWeeks program.[10]
Publications
- Ellis Gene Smith (2001). Among Tibetan Texts: History and Literature of the Himalayan Plateau. Wisdom Publications Inc. ISBN 978-0-86171-179-6.
References
- ^ a b c Margalit Fox (2010-12-28). "E. Gene Smith, Guardian of the Tibetan Canon, Dies at 74". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-01-14.
- ^ a b c "Gene Smith". The Economist. 13 January 2011. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-86171-179-6.
- ^ Telegraph. 7 January 2011. Retrieved 2015-01-14.
- ^ "Memorial for E. Gene Smith this weekend in New York". Lion's Roar. February 8, 2011. Archived from the original on June 2, 2016. Retrieved February 17, 2016.
- ^ Jacobs, Andrew (February 15, 2014). "After Winding Odyssey, Tibetan Texts Find Home in China". The New York Times. Retrieved February 17, 2016.
- ^ David Jackson, A Saint in Seattle: The Life of the Tibetan Mystic Dezhing Rinpoche, Wisdom Publications, Boston, 2003
- ^ "Meet the DocuWeeks Filmmakers: Dafna Yachin--'Digital Dharma: One Man's Mission to Save a Culture'". Documentary Magazine. No. August 2012. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
- ^ Anderson, John (August 23, 2012). "Review: 'Digital Dharma'". Variety. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
- ^ Pond, Steve (August 10, 2012). "DocuWeeks Shrugs Off Academy's Death Threats, Opens With Ethel Kennedy Doc". TheWrap. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
Sources
- Schaeffer, Kurtis R. Introduction p. 1-9 in E. Gene Smith, Among Tibetan Texts, Wisdom Publications, 2001.
- Obituary in the Washington Post