Re: Fwd: [INDOLOGY] Professor A.K. Warder

Why does it say for his wife as well?  Was there some accident?  Thanks for
the news, if I were in Toronto another week I would attend.  Never met Dr.
Warder myself, but he certainly did his part in promoting study of Buddhism.

Yd
On Feb 7, 2013 12:49 PM, "Eugen Ciurtin" <eu.s.ciurtin@...> wrote:

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> This is, dear colleagues, a sad news indeed.
>
> Professor Anthony Kennedy Warder was and will certainly remain a canonical
> name for the student of Pali, Sanskrit, Buddhism and Indian religions.
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> EC
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Stella Sandahl ssandahl@...>
> Date: 2013/2/7
> Subject: [INDOLOGY] Professor A.K. Warder
> To: INDOLOGY@...
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> Dear colleagues,
> It is my painful task to convey the message that Professor A.K. Warder has
> passed away. We all know his extensive contribution to Indological
> scholarship such as his monumental 8-volume study of *Indian Kāvya
> Literature* (Motilal Banarsidass, 1972-2011), his well known *Indian
> Buddhism* (1st pub. 1970; 3rd revised edition, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass,
> 2000), as well as his other books on Buddhism, Indian philosophy and Indian
> literature, not to mention his first two books *Pali Metre: A Contribution
> to the History of Indian Literature* (Pali Text Society, 1967) and
> *Introduction
> to Pali* (Pali Text Society, 1963; 3rd revised edition, 2005).
>
> A funeral service for him and for his wife Nargez will take place at 11
> a.m. on Friday 15 February 2013, at Turner & Porter Funeral Home, 2357
> Bloor Street, West, Toronto (viewing from 10.00 a.m.); with interment
> afterwards at St. John's Dixie Cemetery, 737 Dundas Street East,
> Mississauga, Ontario.
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> Stella Sandahl
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> Professor Stella Sandahl
> Department of East Asian Studies
> 130 St. George St. room 14087
> Toronto, ON M5S 3H1
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> stella.sandahl@...
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