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A personal history — the historicity of Tibetan rnam thar

The concept of history in Tibet — at least since the 7th century, when King Songtsen Gampo ruled — is inextricably tied to Buddhism as a larger framework of Tibetan culture and identity. The very first works of Tibetan historiography — the Annals, the Chronicles, and the Testaments of Ba — are tellings of the …

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What We Owe the Future – William MacAskill

This is a good book that could have been great. I have been interested in effective altruism since I stumbled upon Practical Ethics by Peter Singer almost by chance at my college library. The reasoned perspective on doing good was seductive to an intellectually curious law sophomore, growing disenchanted with the moral foundations of juridical …

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