Looking back to last year's grad apps, realizing that describing retreat experiences probably freaked out the philosophy admissions committees and may have led to less-than-ideal offers. Wondering if religious studies may be more sympathetic? Possibly, but still safer to edit...
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1|2 Hard to make generalizations, but a thought I'd have is, when acquainted with the work of someone you want to study with, to contact them and let them know your interest/ orientation. If they're supportive, good news. If not, you'd then know you might be unhappy there anyway.
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2|2 I work in a psych dept. Profs can range in how responsive they are to prospective applicants' reaching out to them, but by and large (1) are gratified to know of your interest in their work, and (2) want persons in their lab, etc., whose research interests complement theirs.
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I noticed that academic
#buddhology rarely sees in «Mūla#Madhyamaka Kārikā» a meditation manual, in the form of anti-metaphysic apology. So, a monastic, a practioner, may be will see kind of vain philosophical speculation into a scientist, linguistic or archeological, study... -
Exactly my observations upon sitting in on a seminar covering another of Nāgārjuna's pieces, the Vigrahavyāvartanī, a few weeks back. No longer interested in that program, whose main concern seems to be producing cut-throat debaters with no concern for practice or soteriology.
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