Why are so many Buddhists in the west hostile to academic analyses of the religion? Why are some Buddhists in the west hostile to academic analyses of the religion?
You have strayed from the direct path free from [reified concept of] intrinsic being, and wandered down the wrong path of strict rationalism. And as you apply yourself to the labors of your own imagination, the obstructions to the correct path mount ever higher. What do you derive from this constant accumulation of words?


~Candrakirti, as quoted in "The Emptiness of Emptiness: An Introduction to Early Madhyamika" by C. W. Huntington &amp; Geshe Namgyal Wangchen