| This is terrible news. Paul and I knew each other for more than thirty years, as kindred spirits who took a serious interest in Jainism at a time when hardly anybody among our Indological colleagues knew how interesting and important the study of Jainism is. Our first meetings in Mysore, where I was living at the time, were mutually supportive and encouraging as well as eminently joyful (tea at Lalit Mahal Palace, etc.). The last time I met him was at the World Sanskrit Conference in Vancouver. A colleague from Leiden asked him when he would retire. “Another year, and I’ll vanish into darkness,” Paul said. “Time to have a good look at him, while you still can,” I said aside to the colleague. “You can buy me a drink,” he said. I have to disagree. As far as I’m concerned, he’ll never vanish into darkness. He can’t. Robert Zydenbos --
Prof. Dr. Robert J. Zydenbos / ಪ್ರೊ. ಡಾ. ರೊಬೆರ್ತ್ ಜೆಯ್ದೆನ್ಬೊಸ್ Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie Department für Asienstudien Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Deutschland |
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