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Mutual Incomprehension
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad’s book Eastern Philosophy really is excellent. I highly recommend it to everyone, but especially to non-Asian people who, like me, are involved with East Asian Buddhist traditions and don’t necessarily realise the complex blending of influences that is involved in such cross-cultural encounter. The following quotation, focusing on Confucianism, illustrates one example why: “Confucius is concerned about … the performance of [...]
La Peche by Huang Yong Ping (2006)
At the weekend I went to an exhibition by the French artist Huang Yong Ping. I wasn’t particularly taken by the majority of the work on display but the allegorical piece La Peche (2006) was quite thought provoking. The Buddha (the catalogue says ‘an angel’ but it looked like the Buddha to me) dangles the [...]
Minor note: Thought & Action
Just a minor note to self: I found this intriguing in relation to this from the perspective of inter-religious / inter-cultural dialogue.
“That bliss on the other side of boredom”
Back in 2008 my friend Ray wrote an article, ‘Hibachi Atsuki’, about the necessity of taking “a long, hard and honest look at oneself,” which was inspired by an obituary of the writer David Foster Wallace. I made a mental note to read some of the latter author’s work but never got round to it. [...]
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