L. S. Cousins
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Born | Lance Selwyn Cousins 7 April 1942 Hitchin, England |
Died | 14 March 2015 Oxford, England | (aged 72)
Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge |
Lance Selwyn Cousins (7 April 1942 – 14 March 2015) was a British scholar who specialised in the field of Buddhist Studies.
Biography
Born in
Cousins helped establish the Pali Canon on the web and assisted many publications being involved with a breadth of translations from Pali to English himself. He had completed two books by the time of his death that are likely to be published soon.[citation needed]
He received several awards including honorary professorships incorporating recognition of his contributions from among other places the Mahamakut Buddhist University, Bangkok, Thailand in 2013.
In addition to his academic work, he was also a teacher of
He worked in the early 2000s with Somadeva Vasudeva, a visiting scholar from Kyoto University, on transliterating a number of sūtras of a newly discovered Dīrgha Āgama, including a fragment on when the consumption of meat is not appropriate for a monk. At the time of his death, he was preparing for publication a collection of lectures relating to meditation, to be edited by Sarah Shaw, and a translation of the Yamaka commentary and, with Charles Shaw, of the Yamaka. The first third of the latter has now been published: The Book of Pairs and its Commentary: A translation of the Yamaka and Yamakappakaraṇaṭṭhakathā, Vol I (2018), tr. C.M.M. Shaw and L.S. Cousins. It includes Lance's translation of the relevant portion of the ancient commentary, the Pañcappakaraṇa-aṭṭhakathā and is intended as the first of a planned three-volume translation of the whole Yamaka and its commentary.
Publications
Book-length publications
- 1974. Buddhist Studies in Honour of I.B. Horner, ed. L .Cousins, A. Kunst and K.R. Norman. Dordrecht, Holland, D. Reidel Publishing Co.
- 1992. Special Issue in honour of K.R. Norman, Indo-Iranian Journal, ed. Cousins et al., 35 (2 & 3).
- 1995. Mahāniddesa Part III (index volume). Oxford, Pali Text Society.
- 1996. The Dispeller of Delusion (Sammohavinodanī), 2 vols, trans. NyanaponikaMahāthera and C.M.M. Shaw. Oxford, Pali Text Society.
- 1999. Reverse Index to the Mahāniddesa, with Y. Ousaka and M. Yamazaki, digital edition: http://hirose.sendai-nct.ac.jp/~ousaka/EngH.html
External links
- Lance Cousins: An Obituary, Appreciation and Bibliography, Buddhist Studies Review vol.32, no.1, 2015
References
- ^ oxford.academia.edu/LSCousins
- ^ INDOLOGY - The Dating of the Historical Buddha: A Review Article Archived 20 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The State of Buddhist Studies in the World 1972-1997, ed Swearer & Promta, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 2000, page 182
- ^ Renowned Buddhist Scholar returns to hold meditation retreat: The Sunday Times, Sri Lanka, 15 Jan 2012 [1]