据中国社会科学院学者张国庆实名认证微博透露，著名文化学者南怀瑾先生于2012年9月29日下午4时在苏州逝世，享年95岁。另据《钱江晚报》官方微博透露，南怀瑾先生已于29日在苏州太湖大学堂去世，遗嘱和善后事宜将随后发布。（凤凰网文化讯）               

【南怀瑾先生生平】

南怀瑾，一九一八年出生，温州乐清南宅殿后村人。幼承庭训，少习诸子百家。中国当代国学大师之一。               

浙江国术馆国术训练员专修班第二期毕业、中央军校政治研究班第十期毕业、金陵大学研究院社会福利系肄业。抗日战争中，投笔从戎，跃马西南，筹边屯垦。返蜀后，执教於中央军校军官教育队。旋即潜心佛典，遁迹峨嵋大坪寺，阅藏三年。后讲学於云南大学、四川大学等校。赴台湾后，任文化大学、辅仁大学、政治大学、以及其他大学、研究所等教授。生平致力於弘扬中国传统文化，出版有论语别裁、孟子旁通、大学微言、老子他说，及佛、道两家三十多种著作，又经英、法、荷兰、西班牙、葡萄牙、意大利、韩国、罗马尼亚等八种语言翻译流通。（选编自百度百科）                               

Master Nan Huai Jin (Nan Huai-Chin) is one of the most renowned and revered lay Buddhist Masters in China. A great teacher in all three traditions of spiritual cultivation in China, namely the Confucian tradition, the Buddhist tradition and the Taoist tradition, he has written more than 30 books in these subjects. His books are always insightful and lively. He speaks with the authority of first hand experience - being a great scholar, a great action master and a great teacher at the same time. Someone with such an aggregate of qualities are hard to find in this arid age in which words and deeds rarely match.

 His books are extremly popular in China and some of his more popular books went into 20th edition in Taiwan. There is no question that his teaching has transformed many young intellectuals and is one of the main forces of genuine buddhist resurgence in China. His books are also well respected by the academicians. In the words of Thomas Cleary, the famous scholar and translator of Chinese cultivation works."There is no question that Master Nan's work is a cut above anything else available from modern authors, either academic or sectarian, and I would like to see his work gain its rightful place in the English speaking world. ... [His] studies contain broad learning in all three main traditions of Chinese thought, Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist. Although this comprehensive purview was common to the greatest minds of China since the T'ang dynasty, it is rare among scholars today."