After reading Mark Carrigan’s article in the Chronicle of Higher Education on “Social Media IS Scholarship”[1] about the benefits of writing a blog post as a way to keep track of research ideas, as well as to force oneself to write research ideas in a coherent, i.e. readable, fashion, I feel inspired to write this blog … Continue reading Is the Conventional Wisdom of Buddhism waning?
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Age of Faith and the Age of Reason: Are we witnessing a new historical period among Himalayan Buddhists?
Age of Faith and the Age of Reason: Are we witnessing a new historical period among Himalayan Buddhists? Recently I read Annabella Pitkin’s insightful article on "The ‘Age of Faith’ and the ‘Age of Knowledge’: Secularism and Modern Tibetan Accounts of Yogic Power" published in Himalaya.[1] While her article focused on three Tibetan Buddhist teacher’s … Continue reading Age of Faith and the Age of Reason: Are we witnessing a new historical period among Himalayan Buddhists?
Elizabeth Williams Ørberg 