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|bio=[C. W. "Sandy"] Huntington was known foremost for his work in Mahayana Buddhist thought, in particular the Madhyamaka philosophy of India and Tibet. More recently, he published a novel, Maya (Wisdom Publications 2015), set in India in the 1970s, and wrote an article, “The Triumph of Narcissism: Theravāda Buddhist Meditation in the Marketplace,” critiquing certain psychotherapeutic models of teaching and understanding vipassanā meditation found in the West today.*
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Until his death, Huntington served as a professor of religious studies at Hartwick College, in Oneonta, New York, where he won both the Margaret L. Bunn Award for Excellence in Teaching (2004) and the Teacher/Scholar Award (2019). Before teaching at Hartwick, Huntington worked at the University of Michigan, his alma mater, as well as Denison College and Antioch University’s Buddhist Studies in India program, based in Bodh Gaya.
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As a doctoral student, Huntington was guided at the University of Michigan by Luis Gómez, himself a beloved and prolific scholar of Indian Buddhist thought. During this time, Huntington traveled to India to study Sanskrit and Tibetan with the great masters of the day, returning many times over his career. On one such visit, he translated Candrakīrti’s Madhyamakāvatāra with Geshé Namgyal Wangchen, later published as The Emptiness of Emptiness (Hawaii University Press 1989), a pioneering text in Buddhist philosophy. Huntington went on to work closely with fellow scholars on topics of hermeneutics and methodology in the study of Buddhist philosophy, asking scholars to look not only at what the texts mean, but what presuppositions and attitudes were influencing their own interpretations and understandings. ([https://www.buddhistdoor.net/news/buddhist-scholar-cw-sandy-huntington-dies-aged-71 Source Accessed May 26, 2021])
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|bio=We are very sad to announce the peaceful passing on Sunday, July 19th, 2020, of C. W. “Sandy” Huntington, Jr., following a six-month struggle with pancreatic cancer.....
 
Under the guidance of Luis Gómez, he focused on Buddhist Studies and earned his PhD. As part of his graduate training, Sandy studied Sanskrit with Madhav Deshpande, and later spent four years living in India (1976–79), where he continued his Sanskrit studies with the pandits Ambika Datta Upadhyaya and Ram Shankar Tripathi and also studied Hindi and Tibetan. Sandy would return to India, especially Banaras, many times during his life; for him it was a second home. He spent one notable summer in the mountains of Mussoorie, translating Candrakīrti’s Madhyamakāvatāra with Geshé Namgyal Wangchen. This translation, along with his extensive commentary, was later published as The Emptiness of Emptiness (Hawaii UP, 1989), which remains a seminal text for students of Buddhist philosophy.
 
 
Sandy first taught at Antioch University’s Buddhist Studies in India Program, then at the University of Michigan and Denison College, before joining the faculty at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. There he guided undergraduates in religious studies for more than two decades and became a much loved professor, receiving both the Margaret L. Bunn Award for Excellence in Teaching (2004) and the Teacher/Scholar Award (2019).
 
 
([https://networks.h-net.org/node/6060/discussions/6291362/obiturary-cw-sandy-huntington-1949%E2%80%932020 Source: H-Buddhism and Wisdom Publications Obituary])
 
 
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Latest revision as of 11:51, 26 May 2021

Huntington, C. on the DRL

C. W. "Sandy" Huntington
English Phonetics C.W. "Sandy" Huntington
Sort Name Huntington, C.
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Birth:   1949
Death:   2020
Place of birth:   East Lansing, Michigan, USA


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[C. W. "Sandy"] Huntington was known foremost for his work in Mahayana Buddhist thought, in particular the Madhyamaka philosophy of India and Tibet. More recently, he published a novel, Maya (Wisdom Publications 2015), set in India in the 1970s, and wrote an article, “The Triumph of Narcissism: Theravāda Buddhist Meditation in the Marketplace,” critiquing certain psychotherapeutic models of teaching and understanding vipassanā meditation found in the West today.*

Until his death, Huntington served as a professor of religious studies at Hartwick College, in Oneonta, New York, where he won both the Margaret L. Bunn Award for Excellence in Teaching (2004) and the Teacher/Scholar Award (2019). Before teaching at Hartwick, Huntington worked at the University of Michigan, his alma mater, as well as Denison College and Antioch University’s Buddhist Studies in India program, based in Bodh Gaya.

As a doctoral student, Huntington was guided at the University of Michigan by Luis Gómez, himself a beloved and prolific scholar of Indian Buddhist thought. During this time, Huntington traveled to India to study Sanskrit and Tibetan with the great masters of the day, returning many times over his career. On one such visit, he translated Candrakīrti’s Madhyamakāvatāra with Geshé Namgyal Wangchen, later published as The Emptiness of Emptiness (Hawaii University Press 1989), a pioneering text in Buddhist philosophy. Huntington went on to work closely with fellow scholars on topics of hermeneutics and methodology in the study of Buddhist philosophy, asking scholars to look not only at what the texts mean, but what presuppositions and attitudes were influencing their own interpretations and understandings. (Source Accessed May 26, 2021)

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