Education
Born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, he studied history and oriental studies at Cambridge University, and took up a post in the Department of Comparative Religion at Manchester University as lecturer and then senior lecturer.
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Prior to this, he was briefly President (2002/3) of the Pali Text Society (PTS). Professor Richard Gombrich once described him as the leading authority in the West in the field of abhidhamma. Cousins helped establish the Pali Canon on the web and assisted many publications being involved with a breadth of translations from Pali to English himself.
He had completed two books by the time of his death that are likely to be published soon.
He commenced samatha classes under Nai Boonman in 1963 at Hampstead. He was an influential teacher and conducted several retreats incorporating the United Kingdom, particularly at the Samatha Centre, Greenstreete farm in Wales, The United States of America, Ireland and Sri Lanka.
