[INDOLOGY] Misunderstood origins

[Artur Karp]

> idea that the book is more real, in some sense, more valid or stable than
the author's recension

Old habits die hard.

Thank you, Dominik.

I'll act on your advice. Web page, URL & date of access.

Best,

Artur Karp



2016-04-11 5:56 GMT+02:00 Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>:

> This raises an interesting point about the nature of citation.  In the
> case of this paper, the preprint or typescript or whatever it is, the
> author's recension (like a "director's cut"), is much more easily available
> than the printed book version.  It's right there on the internet at
> unil.ch and also amongst Bronkhorst's papers at academia.edu
> <https://www.academia.edu/19790273/Misunderstood_origins_how_Buddhism_fooled_modern_scholarship_-_and_itself>,
> just the click of a mouse away.  So I think there is a good argument for
> citing these recensions of the paper rather than the book.  And this is
> especially the case if the author's recension is what you've actually been
> reading.  One should of course cite this like a web page, with URL and date
> of consultation.
>
> The quest for a page number in an inaccessible printed book is based on an
> idea that the book is more real, in some sense, more valid or stable than
> the author's recension.  But I think that belief can probably be challenged
> quite strongly.
>
> Best,
> Dominik Wujastyk
> ​
>


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