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James P. McDermott Collection
In May, SCBS received the donation of the
professional library of the late Prof. James P. McDermott, Department
of Religious Studies, Canisius College. The collection, which
is particularly strong in Pali materials, will be housed in the
SCBS reading rooms and made available to all members of the Stanford
community.
Prof. McDermott, author of Development
in the Early Buddhist Concept of Kamma/Karma (1984) and other
important studies, was well known for his work on South Asian
Buddhism. A graduate of Princeton, he joined the faculty of Canisius
in 1977. He served for many years as chair of Religious Studies
and was dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at his untimely
death in 2002.
Our thanks to the family of
Prof. McDermott,
and to Prof. Christopher Lee, Canisius College,
for facilitating the gift.
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