[Buddha-l] nytimes review of pbs The Buddha

[Dan Lusthaus]

> Coincidentally, yesterday in my Buddhist Philosophy class we were reading 
> Dan Lusthaus's excellent translation of passages from the 
> Buddhabhūmyupadeśa in Edelglass and Garfield's reader in Buddhist 
> philosophy,

Ah! No wonder you're in such a good mood today.

As for churlish, there is a time and place. Sermons are one thing, 
documentaries purporting to present things "to the best of our knowledge" 
are another. If thinking that the homiletic license granted to a sermon is 
not appropriate for a documentary is being churlish, then watch me churl. 
Actually churling is fun. A winter Olympic sport, I believe, involving 
sticks and stones and sweeping away turds. As long as one is not skating on 
thin ice...

Dan