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LONDON, England - David Seyfort Ruegg, a world-renowned authority on Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, died on Feb. 2, in London, of .
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LONDON, England – David Seyfort Ruegg, a world-renowned authority on Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, died on Feb. 2, in London, of complications from Covid-19.
His interest in Buddhism originated with his mother, painter Aimee Seyfort, and her fascination with Eastern spirituality, as imbibed from Russian mentors during her fine arts training in Paris and later fostered in such New York venues as the Roerich Museum during the 20s and 30s. He also possessed a keen gift for modern and ancient languages, including the Sanskrit and Tibetan so essential to his research. He primarily studied in Paris in the 1950s and 60s, where his most influential teachers were Jean Filliozat and Louis Renou for Indology, and Marcelle Lalou and Rolf Stein for Tibetology. Ruegg developed a special talent for synthesizing new ideas based on those of his ment