[Buddha-l] "Western Self, Asian Other"

[Margaret Gouin]

2010/1/1 Richard Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu>

> [re "Prisoners of Shangrila"]
>
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>
> > It's really too bad that Thurman's critique of Lopez is not freely
> > available online!
>
> It is freely available to academics. most of whom dismiss it as an
> unfortunate diatribe in which the reviewer lost control of himself and
> substituted vitriol for substance. But it's good to know that someone liked
> Thurman's review.
>
> As I recall, Thurman's critique was part of a panel at the AAR on
'Prisoners'; the whole panel (the other participants were Tsering Shakya and
David Germano) was published in JAAR 29.1 (March 2001) including Thurman's
talk, AND Lopez's reply. There is also a review of 'Prisoners' in the 1998
'Tibet Journal' 23.4 (pp. 128-31), where the (Tibetan) author takes Lopez to
task for being a coloniser himself, just in another way.

Margaret