[Buddha-l] Re: The Dalai Lama on Self-Loathing

[Franz Metcalf]

Joanna et al.,

I've read Roland's "self" book and found it well-meaning but 
frustratingly loose on detail and substantiation. Still, a provocative 
read. But I would strongly second Joanna's recommendation of Sudhir 
Kakar's work. I've read several of his books and taken a course from 
him when he was guest professor at Chicago. A wonderful writer as well 
as a leading thinker on Indian psychology. I would be very careful 
about generalizing on "Indian" psychology--to say nothing of "Asian" 
psychology, which I believe is a term without a referent; the only 
person I've been able to appreciate in that act is Kakar (partially 
because he'll then turn around and nuance his position with 
ethnographic data).

Franz