[Buddha-l] Sabba Sutta

Richard Hayes rhayes at unm.edu
Sat Nov 29 08:46:19 MST 2008


On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 02:51 -0500, Dan Lusthaus wrote:

Now that you have demonstrated that turning to you for reliable
information on Jung is, to paraphrase your words, like turning to Dick
Cheney for reliable information on the first amendment, let's remember
that buddha-l was not designed for fulminating against people whose
professional careers do not meet your (or anyone else's) approval.

> > If a person must be clueless about something, I think Yogācāra is a very
> > good choice. The more I have learned about it, the more I have regretted
> > the time wasted looking into it.
> 
> In part, that's because it doesn't seem to have sunk in that Dignaga and
> Dharmakirti were Yogacaras.

That's an interesting claim, for which I have yet to see any evidence.
And now I see that turning to Dan Lusthaus for reliable information
about Dignaga is like turning to Dan Lusthuas for reliable information
about Freud and Jung.


-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico



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