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“I love the colors…leaves in woods heavy after rain…In quiet…, I see there is no me; Through strict practice, I've tired of having a name.” Han Shan.

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Look Ma, it’s in Mind!

(Thank you Sean Smith for taking the time to read the book, for engaging with it in your inimitable style, and for introducing readers to the *Twenty Verses* along the way.)

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Sean Smith reviews Bsod Nams on Vasubandhu in the journal Mind: Other Lives: Mind and World in Indian Buddhism, by Sonam Kachru academic.oup.com/mind/advance-a…

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True dialogue, Kenko noted, can’t take place w/ a companion who never utters a word in contradiction” (for then, as he notes, “one might as well be alone”). A true friend, while “respect[ing] your views, will disagree…saying ‘Yes, that is so, but…and the reason is…’”

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What a lovely thread. What a lovely encounter with Cat Prueitt: global philosophy in the wild.

(And wait till C Thi Nguyen tweets about the theorization of freedom in this tradition and others (and the creation of epistemic structures of manifoldness) as a form of play in a game.)

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This witchy conference season, this festive occasion for comments rather than questions, and, to adapt the Songs of the Elders, as the leaves of twitter fall and the time for heroes to leave the land of retweets comes closer, May you all be safe.

This witchy conference season, this festive occasion for comments rather than questions, and, to adapt the Songs of the Elders, as the leaves of twitter fall and the time for heroes to leave the land of retweets comes closer, May you all be safe.
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Congratulations to Aleksandar Uskokov, for his recent book on one of the most influential and, at least on its own terms, among the least read works of Indian philosophy you might not know you need to know.

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I’m so deeply grateful for this tribute. Even if Sarah Broadie’s Ethics with Aristotle (or, as I like to think of it, How not to do Ethics in Quotes) is partly responsible for my quixotic form of life as an assistant professor muttering away at the end of the Kali Yuga.

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Anne Carson's essay 'Stillness' ends in this astonishing way (🧵/4) (Critical Inquiry, Autumn 2021)

'There are many stillnesses we didn’t get around to in this essay—snow; fog; moonlight; chastity; the gerundive; Odysseus tied to the mast while sailing past the Sirens

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O ye merry scholars of Tibetan Buddhism, do take a look at the following postdoctoral fellowship, and if you like what you see, share: ceas.yale.edu/news/khyentse-…

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May your paths bloom with colleagues who will let you walk into their offices with a line of Matrceta, for e.g., reading it with you in Sanskrit, and Chinese and Tibetan translation, discussing it just long enough to reinforce one’s sense of beauty & principled puzzlement.

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