Dear Steve: The last thing I want to do is to get into an argument with you - particularly as you are an active and obviously sincere pacifist and say you have...
My goodness, Trudy! You have asked some vast questions. Just a few personal comments here. ... The high regard for Tibetan Buddhism in the west is relatively...
Quite apart from political reasons or popular sentiments, are there any reasons why it would have been harder for Muslims to accept (surrendered) Buddhists as...
One or two other points I might have included in my earlier post about the appeal of Tibetan Buddhism in the west: The exotic appeal is no small thing. In the...
... Jes P. Asmussen, “The Word ‘But’ in Iranian”, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 6/2 (1931), pp. 279-283. This will be useful. ...
Well, I guess my questions are evidence of my vast ignorance. :-) Trudy Kawami ________________________________ From: Indo-Eurasian_research@yahoogroups.com ...
Radio Praha on the discovery: <<The find of the century is what Czech archaeologists are calling the discovery of a 7000 year-old statue in Masovice, a village...
Dear John, Let's drop it and agree to disagree, as suggested before. I don't question your good intentions, by any means. I recognize how strongly adherents of...
Pretty spectacular if the dates are confirmed, Artur. Any news on how they dated it? I wonder if anyone on the List has done work on Moravian painted ware. ...
Having been around Tibetan and other Buddhist groups for the last 20 years, I have an observation on the question of "why are the Tibetans so popular?" The...
It is the size more than anything that is striking. The dates aren't contested; there's quite a body of fine Moravian ceramics from the 5th mbce, including...
... Lions could have been present there, and another possibility is the ANE influence on BMAC. In the Indus valley, lion symbolism is totally absent (but...
...Meanwhile, in Southeast Asia, the withdrawal of the US from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia was not coupled with any rapid re-engagement. We left widespread...
In Australia Buddhism is the fastest growing religion (the 2001 census recorded 358,000 Buddhists) and while the Tibetan community is certainly represented (a...
Dear all, I thought the below review (BMCR 2007.10.53) might be of interest to some of you. I'd be curious to hear if anyone on the List has read the book and,...
... I have traced through a Web search other objects nearly identical to this inscribed Batak "cone" (which, as a matter of fact, looks to me more a...
Dear Francesco, Thanks very much (your links and other data quoted at the end). The 20th century expression had it, "Great minds think alike." The 21st...
Dear Annette: The reviewer, Nick Allen, is on our List, so I'm sure he's listening for comments as well. There was much said pro and con on Dumzil at the...
Deal list members Francescos detective work made me search a bit, too. Below is something found which is important regarding (pseudo-)script, or as the author...
Dear List, Yesterday I gave a lecture at Columbia University on "Law as Ordeal in Pre-Modern China." Basically, what I was talking about was an old (2,000+...
Victor H. Mair
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[Mod. note. Sanjeev's message will undoubtedly seem a bit strange, since it is responding not to a List note but to a _faked_ List note sent to some members by...
There's a pretty widespread usage of magical signs and scripts in the Austronesian world, not only in Sumatra but also in the Philippines, among the Mangyan...
Dear Max, I'd be very interested in seeing the Philippine inscribed tube that you mention. It's also interesting that you mention the Mangyan peoples. I have a...
Dear List, I was not going to post this, but as there appears to be nothing much else going on today, I will throw this out there. This is an article that ...
[Mod. note: Re: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/8427>] Hi Steve Just got a slide scanner but haven't installed it yet. Once it is...
Interesting new use of ancient DNA studies, without the usual controversies (at least not yet?): http://www.physorg.com/news112978421.html Links to abstracts...
Victor H. Mair wrote [on August 27th], http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/7696 ... I think the basic word, LA for leaf is not only in...
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