An interview with Pali scholar Peter Masefield

"Since his dissertation was published in England as Divine Revelation
in Pali Buddhism in 1986, [Masefield] has had "absolutely no idea how
people are responding to the book or whether anybody's even read it."
[...]

"I just work away here translating Pali commentaries," [...] "I gave a
talk in Montreal last year and one of the students was apparently so
inspired that he ran out and bought the book, but he's never gotten in
touch with me to tell me whether he thinks it's rubbish or not."

The interview itself is primarily interesting because it reflects the
personality of a man whose life was dedicated to Pali scholarship,
however, the actual themes raised by the questions are "painfully
mainstream" issues of Buddhist dogmatics:
   http://www.wie.org/j14/masefield.asp?page=2

E.M.