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Tom Newhall

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學佛者;PhD Student in Buddhist Studies at UCLA. Studies medieval Chinese monastic life. Also dabbles in Digital Humanities, photography, fatherhood, jokes.

Los Angeles Katılım Ocak 2010
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Next week my book will be available. An open access (free) PDF will be downloadable. brill.com/display/title/…
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...would be no more than a sign that "this probably has lots of mistakes, and was not checked carefully." If Buddhist organizations don't care about Buddhist writings, should anyone?
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I wouldn't mind if they wanted to use machine translation to produce new translations: indeed, it's probably a good idea, but the idea that a translation would get the "stamp of approval" from some anonymous committee with few, academic credentials...
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The idea that Buddhist organizations should simply "certify" Buddhist scriptures translated by machine rather than actually do the work themselves should be supremely embarrassing for them.
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Well, that says a lot... rip twitter
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So... who is still on here?
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@yuxuan_tay "Someone asked: 'What is the meaning of coming from the West?' Linji said: 'If it has meaning, there is no saving oneself.'" (not sure about trans.)
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