Talk:Richard Gombrich

Contesting proposed deletion
Richard Gombrich is one of the world's leading experts on Buddhism, particularly Theravada Buddhism. His accomplishments have been recognized by the President of Sri Lanka and the Asiatic Society of Calcutta. I did not create this article, but I believe it deserves to be kept. Stebbins 23:02, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Gombrich article creator
I created the Richard Gombrich article this afternoon, being quite surprised to find that he doesn't have an article devoted to him yet. Prof. Gombrich has made considerable advances in the study of Buddhism. In many ways, his work has been revolutionary to the field, particularly with respect to early Buddhism, all of which I plan to outline in this article. However, I did not initially expect to take on all the work of explaining his contributions to Buddhist Studies all myself or to enter them all at once–rather, I wanted to at least create the article and then fill in the rest at a later time. But as a graduate student in the field of Buddhist Studies, I was surprised to find that only dead Indologists seem to have any articles. Most of the big names in Buddhist Studies from the 60's onwards are nowhere to be found. I'm sure that whoever requested the deletion of this article will agree that this is a problem which needs to be redressed. Lotus 03:02, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Proposed deltetion
The person who proposed this article for deletion was apparently blocked for the number of articles he was marking for deletion. LastChanceToBe 01:53, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Inappropriate tone
I tagged the article as "inappropriate tone" as the article contians a huge amount of praise for the man with no support. Some examples of this are:
 * "Widely knowledgeable in all areas of Buddhist research - an immense field - Richard Gombrich made himself known with a ground-breaking and still hugely..."
 * "He is also an excellent teacher, in the Oxford tradition that makes dons and tutors almost substitute father figures. A genuine interest in the welfare and progress of his students has resulted in a very wide circle of friends and admirers."
 * "his personality and influence has been directly responsible for creating what is now described as "the North Oxford Indological colony" and keeping Oxford in the forefront of Indological and Buddhist studies. A man of notable humility, as willing to help a colleague (even when he disagrees with their position) as to ask for advice from a student, he is also amazingly dynamic."

These claims don't have a very neutral tone to them (WP:NPOV), and lack any citations for supporting them. Iotha 21:58, 12 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Since the tone of the article has been satisfactorily addressed, I have removed the "inappropriate tone" tag.Lotus (talk) 03:31, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Working on Gombrich article
In the coming weeks, I will try to clean up this article and see what, if anything, from the current content should be kept.Lotus (talk) 18:03, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Picture?
Does anyone have a picture we can add?Lotus (talk) 22:56, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Request for comment on reliable secondary sources for articles on Buddhism
The RfC by Dorje108 states that:

"I propose that texts written by Buddhist writers and teachers that explain basic Buddhist concepts should be considered secondary sources as long as they meet the criteria specified in the guidelines (regardless of whether or not the writer has Western academic training). Do you support this?"

Please see: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Buddhism

Robert Walker (talk) 02:17, 6 December 2014 (UTC)