A Pali scholar formerly of Laos, an interview in a Hong Kong newsletter

[Eisel Mazard]

Various comments and anecdotes in the interview may be interesting to members of this list, e.g.,

 “I have been in villages where all the teenagers gather in the chieftan's wooden hut every night to watch TV soap operas broadcast from Thailand. I can say, honestly, that for the current generation these soap operas are more powerful than Buddhism, they are more powerful than Communism, and they are more influential than the legacy of Imperialism.”

http://newlotus.buddhistdoor.com/en/news/d/31356

http://a-bas-le-ciel.overblog.com/

E.M.