[Buddha-l] buddha-l gathering

[Richard Hayes]

On Dec 1, 2009, at 6:12 PM, Joanna Kirkpatrick wrote:

> I'm so glad that some of us find Barlaam and Jehosaphat a
> wonderful story, although why, beats me.

It's not the story itself that interests people, I would guess, but  
rather the evidence that this is a story that migrated from one  
tradition to another and left a "paper trail" of the migration. It's a  
fairly well-documented instance of borrowing and adaptation.

> I find it just utterly boring.

De gustibus non est disputandum. That notwithstanding, I am glad to  
see that you rejoice that there are people who have interests in  
things that do not interest others and that there are still some  
(albeit increasingly fewer---or is the proper expression decreasingly  
more?) universities that support research into areas that most people  
find utterly boring.

Richard