The final work by Professor Stefano Zacchetti — who was Yehan Numata Professor of Buddhist Studies and Professorial Fellow of Balliol from 2012 until he died suddenly on 29 April 2020 at the age of 52 — has been published.
The Da zhidu lun 大智度論 (*Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa) and the History of the Larger Prajñāpāramitā series (Bochum/Freiburg: projektverlag, 2021) has been published in the Hamburg Buddhist Studies by the Numata Center for Buddhist Studies at Hamburg University. Professor Zacchetti had sent off a completed version of the book in the week before he died and it has been edited for publication by Michael Radich and Jonathan Silk.
Professor Zacchetti had an international reputation as one of the world’s most distinguished scholars in the field of Buddhist Studies. His research focused on early Chinese Buddhist translations (2nd-5th centuries CE); Mahāyāna literature in Sanskrit and Chinese; the history of the Chinese Buddhist canon; and Chinese Buddhism (particularly early Chinese Buddhist commentaries). His publications included the monograph In Praise of the Light (Tokyo 2005) and a number of articles.
You can read more about Professor Zacchetti and his work in this obituary in the Balliol College Annual Record 2020, by three of his Balliol colleagues.