Prof. Diwakar Acharya - The Body of the Goddess 

Perfectly clear. Thanks to all for posting this gem.

Maybe a brilliant scholar, but a terrible communicator, this is the Spalding chair. What exactly is the philosophical content of this talk? Sanskrit words and concepts should be properly pronounced. Most Latin scholars in the West, would not make this kind of mistake. Perhaps, some coaching in English pronunciation would help this Scholar. This is a very important chair, clear and systematic communication and, eloquence will lend more authority to this scholar. Radhakrishnan, Matilal and Alexis Stevenson were outstanding gems. 27:48

Without being disrespectful towards the venerable professor here, I would like however to make some certain remarks .The policy of employing natives in important places of authority in the western academia is not always the wisest strategy . Maybe this performance can be acceptable from the Indian or Nepali standard point of view , but his ability to communicate in a western setting seems extremely limited to me for someone who is actually a Spalding professor of religion, a chair once held by professor Sanderson as I remember ( with an ability hardly matched by any modern scholars) .I could barely understand his English pronunciation and the grammar was awfully impaired . The whole logic of the presentation was navigating towards something that was about to follow and that never did, much like the Lotus Sutra or even the Koran , texts in which the content always mentions how great and wonderfull is the content discussed about .Listening to this professor's presentation was an apocryphal experience, like reading the foreword of a preface and the preface of a foreword, while the content remained etherialized , very much like the blurry mystique of words coming out of a sage's mouth , satisfying for followers, but unsuitable for an academic presentation.