Lancaster, L.
English Phonetics | Lewis Lancaster |
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All beings have Buddha-nature | |
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Which Wheel Turning | |
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Yogācāra vs Madhyamaka | |
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Zhentong vs Rangtong | |
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Promotes how many vehicles? | |
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Analytic vs Meditative Tradition | |
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What is Buddha-nature? | |
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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་) | |
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Causal nature of the vajrapāda | |
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Full Name[edit]
Lewis R. Lancaster
Affiliation[edit]
Professor Emeritus, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley
buddhst@socrates.berkeley.edu
Education[edit]
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin
Other Information[edit]
Professor Lancaster is the founder and Director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI). ECAI (www.ecai.org) is promoting worldwide electronic access to quality research data. ECAI is a partnership of technical specialists and the scholarly community dedicated to the support of scholarship through technology. ECAI is building an infrastructure for retrieval of data over the Internet from servers located anywhere in the world. Guided by the paradigm of the historical atlas, research data is indexed by time and place using temporally-enabled Geographic Information Systems software. User queries retrieve and display data in GIS layers on a map-based interface, allowing comparisons across discipline, region, and time. Source