PETER DELLA SANTINA ’71

PETER DELLA SANTINA, a professor of Buddhism, died Oct. 14, 2006, at age 56. Blind since the age of 12 as a result of infantile glaucoma, he received a master’s degree in philosophy and a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Delhi. His writings ranged from the technical to the popular, and he served as coordinator of curriculum studies in Buddhism for the Singapore Ministry of Education, was a senior fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, taught philosophy in Taiwan and Thailand, and conducted numerous courses for Buddhist communities in all these countries as well as in Italy, where he lived for extended periods. For more than 30 years, he was a student of His Holiness Sakya Trizin, leader of the Sakya Order of Tibetan Buddhism. Survivors include his wife, Krishna, and a son.