Originally published at: https://ethical.net/ethical/mindfulness-ethics/
In the late 19th century, a British civil servant named Thomas William Rhys Davids found himself adjudicating Buddhist clerical disputes. In order to immerse himself within these issues, he set out to learn Pali, the sacramental language of Theravada, an early branch of Buddhism. It was then, in the course of his studies, that he…