Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: When news of the sudden death of Stefano Zacchetti, Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Oxford, started spreading among friends, students and colleagues on the evening of 29 April 2020, there was perhaps no less room for disbelief than for utter shock.The sheer absurdity of an untimely end was taking from us, aged only 52, a magnificent scholar who had already given so much to Buddhist Studies, and who would have given so much more still.The vagaries of publishing schedules have made it so that this imperfect remembrance of him should be written when well over a year has passed since that tragic evening, and emotional tributes bearing witness to the enormous esteem and affection he enjoyed across and beyond the field have already appeared in other venues. 1 But as grief peters out in the callous distance of time for those who were privileged with his friendship and his teaching, stating the value of his scholarly life and legacy seems as important for them-for us-as for everyone else who can now only read his work.1. See the profile of Zacchetti's life and scholarship by Ester Bianchi for the AISC (Associazione Italiana Studi Cinesi) at https://aisc-org.it/stefano-zacchetti-1968-2020-contributo-agli-studi-buddhisti/ (in Italian), which also includes links to tributes and testimonies from several scholars and friends; and the intimate, moving portrait by Francesca Tarocco for the European Association of Chinese Studies at http://chinesestudies.eu/?p=4087.Both were published in May 2020, and are also available at https://glorisunglobalnetwork.org/in-memoriam-ste-fano-zacchetti/.See also the extensive discussion of Zacchetti's work in Buddhist Studies by Ji Yun 紀贇, "Zuo Guanming (Stefano Zacchetti, 1968-2020) de Hanyu Fojiao wenxianxue gongxian jianshu" 左冠明的漢語佛教文獻學貢獻簡述, Hualin guoji Foxue xuekan 華林國際佛 學學刊 3.2 (2020): 226-290 (in Chinese), at https://glorisunglobalnetwork.org/chin-hijbs/e
Source: Buddhist Studies Review
DOI: 10.1558/bsrv.21192
Author: Antonello Palumbo
Language: English
Topic: Indian and Buddhist Studies
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3216039005