[Buddha-l] Lamas and such

[S.A. Feite]

On Dec 3, 2009, at 3:45 PM, Dan Lusthaus wrote:

> With all due respect, James, a moment's reflection will show that this is an 
> impossible origin for the term. Post-colonial sensibilities are recent, not 
> a century old -- it would be anacronistic to project that sort of 
> word-phobia backward in time. No one was arguing etic vs emic naming 
> practices back then.


I think you might have missed what he meant by "colonialist".