[Buddha-l] Guenther

[jkirk]

Besides the Saskatoon newspaper obituary that has been posted here, the only 
other notice I could find via the web was this one (Joanna)-----

http://www.tricycle.com/issues/breakingnews/1986-1.html

March 23, 2006

Herbert Guenther, Renowned Buddhist Scholar and Translator, Dies at 89


Professor Emeritus, Herbert Guenther, passed away on March 11, 2006, in 
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, after a lengthy illness. Guenther is credited with 
being one of the first to join Western philosophy and Tantric Buddhism. He 
published many works including Tibetan Buddhism in Western Perspective 
(1977), Teachings of Padmasambhava (1996), and Dawn of Tantra (1975), which 
he coauthored with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Along with his original 
scholarship, Guenther is perhaps best known for his work as a translator of 
Buddhist texts including Mind in Psychology: A Translation of Ye-she 
rGyal-mtshan's "The Necklace of Clear Understanding" (1975), and The Life 
and Teaching of Naropa (1963), a translation of the biography of the 
eleventh-century mystic. Guenther was born in 1917 in Bremen, Germany, and 
taught at Vienna University before moving to India in 1950. He lived and 
taught at Lucknow University in Uttar Pradesh, and at Sanskrit University in 
Varanasi. In 1964, he moved to Canada, where he became head of the Far 
Eastern Studies department at Saskatchewan University until his retirement 
in 1984.