Preface. Beiträge zur Kultur und Geistesgeschichte Asiens|In Clear Words Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse 863. Band|Vol. I Introduction, Manuscript Description, Sanskrit Text|
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Abstract
My interest in Madhyamaka goes back to the early years of my graduate studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada, and I remember well the discussion in which my esteemed Sanskrit professor Ashok Aklujkar suggested that I consider turning my attention to the Prasannapadā, a text I was at the time familiar with by name only.Trusting the guidance of this man who seemed to know everything about the enchanting world of the language of the gods, I agreed to do so, and the first seeds for the present book were sown.I remain very grateful for Prof. Aklujkar's expert tutelage in Sanskrit and the introduction to Indian philosophical thought, as well as for his efforts in securing financial support for my studies at UBC.Just as I was commencing my doctoral work, Karin Preisendanz, who had received her training at the University of Hamburg, Germany, was hired on in the department, a lucky coincidence which would fling open for me the doors to German Indological scholarship and heralded my initiation into text-critical work.Although my dissertation topic at the time focussed on differences between the thought of Nāgārjuna and Candrakīrti, Prof. Preisendanz read with me, among other texts, the section in the first chapter of the Prasannapadā on dependent-arising and a large part of the Candrakīrti-Bhāviveka debate.When she later accepted a position back in Hamburg, I was encouraged to fly off to the Hanseatic city too, because there I would be able to deepen my understanding of the Buddhist philosophical tradition with the legendary Lambert Schmithausen.It was the move to the more philologically oriented Institute for the Culture and History of India and Tibet at the University of Hamburg that motivated me to switch my dissertation topic to re-editing the first chapter of the Prasannapadā and set me, for the purpose of accomplishing my goal, on a viii
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.190 | 0.087 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".