Can we make philosophy a little less provincial?

David Chalmers writes on Facebook:

"[Having spent the last week thinking about Buddhist philosophy of mind -- an enormously rich tradition that anticipates numerous key ideas in contemporary analytic philosophy of mind -- it's a little stunning that hardly any of the leading research departments of philosophy in the anglophone world employ anyone who specializes in Buddhist philosophy, or indeed in any area of non-western philosophy. How hard would it be to change the conventions so that every department would be expected to have at least one specialist in non-western philosophy?" [Quoted with permission.]

Here are a few suggestions:

(i) make non-western philosophy weigh heavier in the PGR. (Right now there is no Buddhist philosophy, although maybe some sneaks in under Chinese philosophy.) Of course, this only makes sense once folk start hiring in the area. (It may be classic chicken-egg problem?)

(ii) Encourage a non-Western philosophy course in graduate school. (Of course, this may run-up against lack of language skills, increasingly short PhD funding, opportunity costs -- here goes history of philosophy? --, etc.)

(iii) Send PhDs abroad to China or India (etc) for a semester, say, between coursework and PhD.