[Buddha-l] Useful for Enlightenment?

[Piya Tan]

Thanks guys for the refreshing and liberating gesture.

Eastern wisdom is being ijacked by greedy publishers like ravaging
conquistadores of the colonial days. They took away our natural
resources, processed them and then sold them back to us at great
profits for themselves. This is being familiarly replayed.

We (Asians) often try to publish Dharma books for free distribution.
Now we should read them more instead of treating them as fetishes and
totems..

I also recall once (decades back) when a local dana group had printed
Walpola Rahula's "What the Buddha Taught" but the Sinhalese Chief High
Priest in Malaysia reported piracy to the publisher, and the free
books had to be withdrawn.

Anyway we now have much better books by scholars who practise Dharma
than bookish monks who turn the Vinaya and the Buddha on their heads.

Let us work together for a freer Buddhism.

Metta to all,

Piya Tan



On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Alberto Todeschini <at8u at virginia.edu> wrote:
> Chris Fynn wrote:
>
> "The institution where you are (UVa) already hosts the Tibetan and
> Himalayan Library <http://www.thlib.org> through which a number of
> interesting journals are freely available  - including the Journal of
> the International Association of Tibetan Studies (JIATS)"
>
> Dear Chris,
>
> You are absolutely right and I should have mentioned JIATS as one of my
> inspirations. I am, of course, aware of the Tibetan and Himalayan
> Library and I actually am doing some work for them (proof-reading the
> Sanskrit titles of the entire Dege canon and doing some basic research
> about alternative titles, etc.).
>
> In fact, I think of David Germano as an inspiring model of scholar
> working tirelessly (I mean this literally) for the benefit of the
> academic community and of Tibet in general. I do hope that people
> appreciate how much he does.
>
> Best,
>
> Alberto Todeschini
>
>
>
>
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