[Buddha-l] nytimes article on the Emory U Tibetans and Science project

Richard Hayes rhayes at unm.edu
Sat Oct 12 15:50:55 MDT 2013


On Oct 12, 2013, at 14:38, "Dan Lusthaus" <vasubandhu at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Why assume Tibetans would be incapable of understanding scientific methods and knowledge on its own terms? Are they culturally retarded?

I can't imagine a more bizarre interpretation of what anyone here has said recently. No such assumption was made by anyone. Why assume that such an assumption was being made by anyone?

Richard


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