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Author: khemarato

_content/articles/future-of-buddhist-past_lopez-donald-s.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 title: "The Future of the Buddhist Past: A Response to the Readers"
 authors:
-  - "Donald S. Lopez"
+  - "Donald S. Lopez Jr."
 external_url: "https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/items/653e3d89-81c8-4327-9d50-c406cc25728d"
 source_url: "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01139.x"
 drive_links:
@@ -19,4 +19,14 @@ pages: "883--895"
 openalexid: W2036478981
 ---
 
-> all scholars of Buddhism know that all claims for the compatibility of Buddhism and science are nonsense
+> ...all claims for the compatibility of Buddhism and science are nonsense..
+
+Lopez correctly points out that many of the elements of modern Buddhism trace back to debates with European colonizers, whose logic the Buddhists then partially adopted.
+He then claims that this adoption of foreign elements by Buddhists represents not an evolution but a "degeneration" of the tradition.
+
+>  It is clear that the Buddhism that is compatible with science must jettison much of what Buddhism has been in order to claim that compatibility.
+That loss evokes for me the classical Buddhist doctrine of the degeneration of the dharma
+
+Lopez thus presents Buddhism with a double bind: if the religion doesn't adapt, it's incompatible with science. But if it does, it's degenerate and inauthentic.
+
+In defining authenticity by privileging certain historical texts and their interpretation by Western scholars such as himself over the words and deeds of contemporary Buddhist leaders such as the Dalai Lama (who he calls a "spokesperson"), Lopez risks perpetuating the same Colonial logic he so eloquently bemoans.

_content/articles/hilditch-mcgill-chinese-palace-temple_ryder-lewis.md

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+---
+title: "The Hilditch–McGill Chinese Palace Temple: Exhibitions, Mass Culture, and China in the British Imagination in the 1920s"
+authors:
+  - "Lewis Ryder"
+external_url: "https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publications/fc769a2d-e5ee-472a-a73f-62ec3423eb6f"
+source_url: "https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwab038"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DS6FqmUcC5Z1nf6Ejz-MFkUlY1GeWE6W/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: academic
+tags:
+  - museums
+  - british
+year: 2021
+month: nov
+journal: "Twentieth Century British History"
+publisher: oxford
+volume: 33
+number: 1
+pages: "129--153"
+openalexid: W4211179664
+---
+
+> It is possible that Hilditch asked
+Chinese residents in Manchester to assist him with the services but had
+been rejected, but their omission is more likely down to the fact he wanted to cement his status as the authority of the temple. By donning
+Chinese robes, Hilditch added a heightened sense of reality to the display
+than would have been created if he had worn English clothes, while simultaneously increasing his supposed authority; he played both museum
+guide and Buddhist Priest.
+
+> Hilditch’s understanding of China seems to parallel that of the Protestant
+missionaries who saw Buddhist rituals as ‘a kind of absurd theatre, in
+which a nation of actors engaged in stylized fictions full of sounds and
+fury but signifying nothing’
+Given Hilditch’s slippery relationship with
+the truth, it is difficult to discern whether even he believed in his temple’s
+accuracy. However, his sense of entitlement to construct the temple and
+claim its authenticity does suggest that he had interiorized the British
+sense of authority over Chinese culture.

_content/articles/historical-turn_deeg-max.md

@@ -3,18 +3,23 @@ title: "The Historical Turn: How Chinese Buddhist Travelogues Changed Western Pe
 authors:
   - "Max Deeg"
 external_url: "https://glorisunglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/hualin1.1_deeg_final.pdf"
-source_url: "https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.01.01.02"
+source_url: "https://doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.01.01.02"
 drive_links:
   - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l3V_deFM5ybAUOOaXgJdeRFwmDiwDp6H/view?usp=drivesdk"
 course: academic
 tags:
   - historiography
-  - roots
 year: 2018
 journal: hijbs
 volume: 1
 number: 1
 pages: "43--75"
+openalexid: W2938949704
 ---
 
-> The final confirmation of the historicity of the Buddha and the religion founded by him was taken, however, from the records of Chinese Buddhist travellers who had visited the major sacred places of Buddhism in India and collected other information about the history of the religion.
+> Information about Buddhism was scarce and vague at best in the West until the beginning of the nineteenth century.
+> The first Orientalists studying Indian sources had to rely on Hindu texts written in Sanskrit which portrayed the Buddha as an avatra of the Hindu god Viṣṇu.
+> The situation changed with the discovery of the Pāli texts from Sri Lanka through scholars like George Turnour and the decipherment of the Aśokan inscriptions through James Prinsep by which the historical dimension of the religion became evident.
+> The final confirmation of the historicity of the Buddha and the religion founded by him was taken, however, from the records of Chinese Buddhist travellers (Faxian, Xuanzang, Yijing) who had visited the major sacred places of Buddhism in India and collected other information about the history of the religion.
+> This paper will discuss the first Western translations of these travelogues and their reception in the scholarly discourse of the period and will suggest that the historical turn to which it led had a strong impact on the study and reception of Buddhism-in a way the start of Buddhist Studies as a discipline.
+

scripts/android_go_through.py

@@ -402,18 +402,21 @@ def sort_pdf_file(child):
         shutil.move(fp, LOCAL_SPLIT_FOLDER)
     else:
         gfolder = gdrive.get_gfolders_for_course(course)
+        isnt_unread = 'unre' not in course.lower()
+        # only ask for more info if isn't unread
         tags = []
-        print("tags:")
-        while True:
-          tag = gdrive.input_course_string_with_tab_complete("  - ")
-          if not tag:
-            break
-          tags.append(tag)
+        if isnt_unread:
+          print("tags:")
+          while True:
+            tag = gdrive.input_course_string_with_tab_complete("  - ")
+            if not tag:
+              break
+            tags.append(tag)
         gdrive.log_move_reason(
           gf['id'],
           new_parent_id=gfolder[0] or gfolder[1],
           old_parent_id=gf.get('parent_id', REMOTE_FOLDER),
-          reason=input("Any notes? ") or "Preliminary sort",
+          reason=(isnt_unread and input("Any notes? ")) or "Preliminary sort",
           alternate_tags=tags,
         )
         if gfolder[0]:

scripts/gdrive.py

@@ -1132,7 +1132,7 @@ def log_move_reason(file_id: str, new_parent_id: str | None = None, old_parent_i
           link = requests.get('http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='+link).text
       glink_gens.append(
         lambda title=title, link=link: DOC_LINK.format(
-            create_doc(
+            gcache.create_doc(
               filename=title,
               html=make_link_doc_html(title, link),
               custom_properties={

scripts/local_gdrive.py

@@ -965,6 +965,21 @@ def upload_file(self, fp: Path, filename=None, folder_id=None) -> str | None:
           )
         )
         return ret
+    
+    def create_doc(self, **kwargs) -> str | None:
+        ret = gdrive_base.create_doc(**kwargs)
+        if not ret:
+          return ret
+        sleep(2)
+        self.upsert_item(
+          gdrive_base.execute(
+            gdrive_base.session().files().get(
+              fileId=ret,
+              fields=FILE_FIELDS,
+            )
+          )
+        )
+        return ret
 
     ######
     # Connection management