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Clarke Scott is a fully ordained Buddhist monk trained in the Tibetan tradition. A student of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Clarke has received personal instructions—direct one-to-one instructions—on Madhyamaka philosophy and meditation from His Holiness. Recently Clarke moved to Tasmania to pursue a Ph.D in Buddhist philosophy from the University of Tasmania.

First Trip to Tassie

Today is the second day of my first trip to the University of Tasmania. The flight down here was a pleasant even though there was a false start.

I have meet some wonderful people already, including a number of other post-grad students, university Professors and of course my supervisor Sonam Thakchoe. I could get used to living here, in fact, I’ve already had a little bit of pressure by some who would like for me to live and work here at the university. My answer has been, well lets see.

While here I am staying with Sonam. He is a most generous host and has made me feel very welcomed. In fact, last night we stayed up late talking about Tsong khapa, philosophy in general, and whether there is any truth to the claim that ultimate truth is that there is no ultimate truth.For cause I have a problem with this claim, but I wont go into it here.

This morning Sonam and I had another fruitful discussion about my thesis. In particular about the the aim or motivation (not in the Buddhist sense), scope and metholody as well as how to insert these into a literature review that will need up as the introductory chapter of my thesis. I can see now that Ihave alot to learn.

I’m here til Friday afternoon

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