A group blog of scholars exploring Indian philosophy
For longer than I’ve been alive, restaurants in North America that call themselves “Chinese” have typically served dishes that would not be recognized in China: chop suey, sweet and sour pork. This North American Chinese food is not one of Continue reading The significance of General Tso’s chicken (and pizza)
Prof. Anjana Jacob (Georgetown University at Qatar) reached out to me, asking to share a job ad for an open rank position. Some readers of this blog may be interested given the range of specializations mentioned in the ad: The Continue reading Job Ad: Open Rank Position at Georgetown University in Qatar
My upcoming book is devoted to the theme that suffering doesn’t come primarily from bad external situations (like political ones), but from the interaction of those bad situations with our mental states of craving and resistance. One might ask: is Continue reading Is delusion a modern institution?
I received the Call for Abstracts below from Scott Stroud (University of Texas at Austin). He added, “The call for abstracts is deliberately wide-ranging, since there are so many useful angles to consider here. Approaches from a range of different Continue reading Call for Abstracts: Pragmatism and India
The great Buddhist poet Aśvaghoṣa famously tells the story of the Buddha’s father, the king, who tried to keep his son as an heir rather than a monk by isolating him from all the bad things in the world. Of Continue reading The gap is not glorious
Manas plays multiple roles for Kumārila and it is important to keep them apart: manas connecting sense faculty to ātman while sensing an external object (see ŚV pratyakṣa 160ab) manas working itself as a sense faculty for pain and pleasure Continue reading The role of manas in perception according to Kumārila
Readers, I’m delighted to announce that my first book is officially scheduled for publication! It’ll come out in November but you can preorder it now, and I would really like to encourage you to do so if you’re interested: preorder Continue reading Announcing my book: After Anger
Here is a message from Scott Stroud (University of Texas at Austin) about a new special issue of the journal Dewey Studies focused on John Dewey’s pragmatism and India. The first special issue of a journal dedicated to exploring John Continue reading John Dewey’s Pragmatism and India (Special Issue of Dewey Studies)
Call for Applications Postdoctoral Fellowship in Jain Studies About the Fellowship The Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Jain Studies. The fellowship is designed to support an outstanding early-career Continue reading Postdoctoral Fellowship in Jain Studies
Karin Meyers’s work on the “damned topics” of Buddhist philosophy is most powerful on the topic of rebirth. Because that’s the place where there’s actually some reasonably powerful evidence for the “damned topic”. Where I think she goes too far Continue reading You still have to naturalize karma