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August 5

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  1. 1885 CEMesopotamian · born

    Edward Chiera, the Italian-American Assyriologist who excavated Nuzi and helped launch the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, was born in Rome.

  2. 1952 CEBuddhist · born

    Sharon Salzberg, a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society and a widely read teacher of loving-kindness (mettā) meditation, was born in New York City.

  3. 2010 CEBuddhist · died

    Robert Aitken, co-founder of the Honolulu Diamond Sangha and one of the pioneering lay Zen teachers in the United States, died in Honolulu.

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