Steven Collins (16 September 1951 – 15 February 2018) was a British-born

Buddhist studies Buddhist studies, also known as Buddhology, is the academic study of Buddhism. The term ''Buddhology'' was coined in the early 20th century by the Unitarian minister Joseph Estlin Carpenter to mean the "study of Buddhahood, the nature of the Bud ...

scholar. Steven Collins grew up in north London, England, with Irish Catholic ancestry. He gained a double-first degree at Christ Church,

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, going on to earn a master's degree and doctorate (DPhil) there. He lectured at the

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before joining the

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faculty in 1991, where he was named the Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities. Collins died in New Zealand, where he was attending a seminar, on 15 February 2018, at the age of 66.

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