--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > < snip to > > B. Alan Wallace may be the American Buddhist most committed to > finding connections between Buddhism and science. An ex-Buddhist > monk who went on to get a doctorate in religious studies at > Stanford, he once studied under the Dalai Lama, and has acted > as one of the Tibetan leader's translators.
Thanks for passing this recommendation along. I will have to order the book. BTW, forget studying at Stanford as a pedigree. Have you ever seen the Dalai Lama or other Tibetan teachers, and seen how "translation" works in that environment? It's not like the UN version, where the teacher speaks one sentence or at most two and then pauses so that the translator can translate. It's more like the teacher really gettin' into it and talking for five minutes, while the translator sits there beside him, taking no notes. Then the Dalai Lama pauses and the translator does the whole five-minute talk, in another language. Perfectly. It's one of the highest artforms I've ever been fortunate enough to witness. If this guy had that function with the Dalai Lama, that alone is pedigree enough for me.
