Heading to Cape Town for another of John Makeham's conferences on Yogacara in Chinese intellectual history. My question: "Why did Confucians dump Yogacara like yesterday's coffee after Liang Shuming and Xiong Shili's generation?" My answer, in crude terms: "They're cultural nationalists. It's the West that most of them have a chip on their shoulders about. They've got no time for India!"
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