Donald S. Lopez Jr.: preference

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…If you send them to one place in Thailand, where would that place be? I think I would go to Bangkok just because there are so many great monasteries there. That’s where, of course, the palace is, and you can see the close relationship between the king and the Sangha. Your own position as leading expert on Buddhism, what is it you had to do to get that in terms of travel, languages? Obviously, study and writing, but just physically, what are the things you needed to do?…

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