Donald S. Lopez Jr.: belief

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…What is the skill you have that enabled you to write every entry? I chose an excellent scholar as my partner. He knows Chinese and Korean very well. He also knows Sanskrit, and he’d also been a monk in Thailand. We had enough life experience between us and enough teaching experience between us and enough languages between us to put together the list of terms that we thought needed to be there. Then, again, with the help of our graduate students. It’s not to say that we did it all by ourselves. We had a lot of help from our students over that decade, but we had the bases covered, I think, to get that done. If you think of the next, or maybe current, generation of younger scholars of Buddhism, do they evince a similar level of dedication? Is it somehow in decline, or you think it’s fine?…

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