In some cases this meant that
their interest in Buddhism was what might be called “on the fringe”, often combined with
another discipline, e.g. social anthropology; in other cases it meant that in the
departments of humanities in the various universities to which they belonged they were
regarded with some sort of suspicion as being teachers of subjects which were not as
important as other subjects, so that when money was allocated for teaching or library
purposes they got the smaller share, or when posts were sacrificed in the interests of
economy it was posts in their subjects which went.