Richard Nance recently completed a year-long sabbatical during which he lived in Scotland. While abroad, he focused on completing a translation of a lengthy Sanskrit treatise on commentary (now extant only in Classical Tibetan), authored by the great Buddhist intellectual Vasubandhu (4th-5th century). The translation, The Logic of Explication: Vasubandhu’s Vyākhyāyukti, has now been submitted for publication. Nance also presented “Learning to Read: Lessons from Vasubandhu” and “Dissolving the World: An Introduction to Vasubandhu’s Twenty Verses,” at the University of Edinburgh, as well as “Missing Defilements, Barking Children, and Troubled Resources: Some Philological Puzzles from the Vyākhyāyukti Literature” for Cornell University's Society for Buddhist Studies.
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