Gelek Rimpoche honors Gene Smith

Rimpoche said that in Gene Smith the world lost a great teacher, scholar and wonderful person, a giant in Buddhist and especially Tibetan Buddhist studies. He said he was also a good personal friend of his. Rimpoche said they worked together in India and Gene helped Rimpoche print 170 rare volumes of the Gelugpa tradition. Gene Smith, through the Library of Congress, was able to reprint many volumes of ancient Indian and Tibetan texts, not only Buddhist, but also Hindu and Muslim that would have otherwise been lost to humanity. After retirement in New York, Gene established the biggest library of Tibetan Buddhist texts and also converted them in electronic files. Only last year, Rimpoche said, Gene visited him on his birthday and gave him a computer with all the Tibetan Buddhist texts that had been printed and electronically converted so far. This computer is also capable to link to his organization and can be updated with any new texts. Rimpoche said Gene died suddenly, two after returning from India. He had complained of ill health the day after his return and passed away suddenly the next day. Rimpoche asked us all to pray that all of Gene Smith's wishes may be fulfilled.

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