Tag: academia
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Forward in all directions
While I strongly doubt anyone actually reads this blog, I’ve re-loaded lots of old entries that got lost as a way of marking time today. They date back to March...
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Out there, where we belong; near here, where I cannot go.
In my planned talk, not delivered, for the Newa Pasa Puca Guthi last night, I had intended to return again to the question of locality as a key determinant of...
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Editing myself
It is strange to edit one’s self. In reviewing the galley proofs for Remaking Buddhism for Mediæval Nepal the question of being pointedly British (ise or ize), of responding to...
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Ossified professor syndrome
During the lecture series offered by an Extremely Famous professor some while back, a number of us at Aberdeen got to talking. Why was it that by the time an...