paNamaNi

[Valerie J Roebuck]

I am completely mystified.  I appear to have received the emails from
only part of this thread, not including the original question.
Attempts to guess what it was about have failed.  (Snakes seem to
have come into it.)

Valerie J Roebuck
Manchester, UK

At 5:18 pm -0800 2/2/05, Jonathan Silk wrote:
>Matthew wrote:
>>In response to Jonathan Silk's comment:
>>if an Indian travelled, was he thereby no longer
>>Indian "as such"?
>>
>>JayAnanda's comm. was likely composed in Xixia,
>>according to the colophon, but the author was
>>a visiting professor from abroad.
>
>
>As usual, I wrote in too much haste, and hence unclearly. What I
>should have said refers not to JayAnanda's "identity" but rather to
>the concerns and intellectual envirnonment within which he composed
>his cy, and to which it might be imagined to, at least in part,
>respond. A perhaps related issue is the language within which the cy
>was initially composed. If I am not wrong, there is at least some
>reason to think this may have been Tibetan ab initio.
>Have I misunderstood Matthew's concern(s)?
>
>JAS
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>
>Jonathan Silk
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