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When the [[Anagarika Dharmapala]] was visiting Boston in December, 1903, he went to William James's class at Harvard University. | |||
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I tried unobtrusively to reach the back of the lecture-hall to hear the great teacher of psychology, but it is difficult for a man in a yellow robe to be inconspicuous in America. Professor James saw me and motioned for me to come to the front of the hall. He said: "Take my chair, and I shall sit with my students. You are better equipped to lecture on psychology than I am." After I had outlined to his advanced class some elements of Buddhist doctrine, he turned to this students and said, "This is the psychology everybody will be studying twenty-five years from now."<ref>Anagarika Dharmapala, "On the Eightfold Path: Memories of an Interpreter of Buddhism to the Present-Day World," ''Asia'' (September, 1927), 720.</ref> | |||
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Revision as of 19:39, 13 December 2017
When the Anagarika Dharmapala was visiting Boston in December, 1903, he went to William James's class at Harvard University.
I tried unobtrusively to reach the back of the lecture-hall to hear the great teacher of psychology, but it is difficult for a man in a yellow robe to be inconspicuous in America. Professor James saw me and motioned for me to come to the front of the hall. He said: "Take my chair, and I shall sit with my students. You are better equipped to lecture on psychology than I am." After I had outlined to his advanced class some elements of Buddhist doctrine, he turned to this students and said, "This is the psychology everybody will be studying twenty-five years from now."[1]
Online resources
- William James: The Pragmatic Visionary by Edward Hoffman.
- William James, Theosophist by Tony Lysy.
- William James at Wikipedia.
- William James Natal Horoscope at Khaldea.
Notes
- ↑ Anagarika Dharmapala, "On the Eightfold Path: Memories of an Interpreter of Buddhism to the Present-Day World," Asia (September, 1927), 720.