[Buddha-l] Buddhism and Postmodernism

[Richard P. Hayes]

On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 11:27 -0400, curt wrote:

> At the risk of making a wild over-generalization, I would
> say that there is a tendency for this list to be more focused
> on South Asian/Theravadin Buddhism. I am not making
> any accusations here - just an observation.

That's not a very accurate observation. Lance Cousins and Bruce Burrill
tend to focus on Theravada Buddhism, but they are the only ones on this
list. Most of the other regular contributors here usually write from a
Mahayana perspective.

> The reason I make this observation in the context of the subject of
> the interpenetration of Buddhism and Post-Modernism is that
> the names "Steven Heine" and "Bernard Faure" have not been mentioned -
> and I was wondering why.

Perhaps because the people who have been writing on the topic are
unfamiliar with their work. I am certainly not very familiar with their
work (except that I know who they are and what their fields are), and I
suppose that is because I am a specialist in Indian Buddhism, whereas
they are scholars of Zen. So thanks for mentioning them in this context.

-- 
Richard Hayes