forest-of-the-blind_king-matthew.md

title	authors	subcat	editor	external_url	status	course	tags	year	month	publisher	minutes
In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian's Record of Buddhist Kingdoms	Matthew W. King	podcast	Daigengna Duoer	https://newbooksnetwork.com/in-the-forest-of-the-blind	featured	roots	dialogue historiography academic academia tibetan-roots	2022	oct	nbn	94

How Abel-Rémusat’s “poaching” of Asian scholarship facilitated the creation of Western "Buddhist Studies" as a discipline and how his Relation des Royaumes Bouddhiques was in turn coopted by Himalayan Buddhists fighting in the collapse of the Qing says a lot about the production of academic knowledge.