Category: people

  • The yam question

    My thanks to those brave few people who actually answered the yam survey. (For those who had no idea there was such a thing, please consult http://bit.ly/en05b4 and answer the...

    By people, plants

  • silhouettes

    8:30 AM, January in Aberdeen: the brightest stars are still clearly visible, the eastern sky red and black with long strings of clouds torn to tatters from their long journey...

    By Fomenting, natural history, people, research

  • Brutal irony

    Saturday was Buddha Pūrṇimā, the international holiday that celebrates the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and passing. The UN Secretary General issued a message calling for solidarity and the alleviation of suffering....

    By Events, Fomenting, people

  • What did Chief Seattle say?

    In pursuit of historical veracity I came across extracts from F.J. Grant’s report (pp. 433-6 of his History of Seattle, Washington) of the speech of Chief Sealth—as translated from someone...

    By people, research

  • Buddhist exclusivism in Sri Lanka

    Is this modernism, exclusivism or fundamentalism? I’ve got a chapter coming out (in Sharing the Sacra, ed. Glenn Bowman) in which I discuss local responses to a similar attitude among...

    By Buddhism, Fomenting, Himalayas, people, research