Re: Mahidol University's Buddhist Studies Programme
From: Noah Yuttadhammo
Message: 2288
Date: 2007-11-15
> Lots of good things going
> on at Mahidol.
Like their $250 tipitaka program which has a state-of-the-art anti-piracy implimentation and an interface reminiscent of Windows 3.1? I'm sorry, I'm biased against Mahidol just for that project alone.
Probably this sounds good to a US Ph.D student looking to visit Thailand but, honestly, considering the excellent array of monastic study available in Thailand for free, I can't imagine why anyone would choose to study at a for-profit institution in this case, unless a) they were Thai and wanted to study English, or b) they were to incompetent or too time-pressed to learn Thai. The degree itself must be rather useless in international circles, I should think...