[Buddha-l] Re: Panchen Lama

[jkirk]

Thanks Bernie for that lovely Basho poem
Joanna

> Baopiguy at comcast.net wrote:
> 
>> Sounds like he finally got the message after a
>> few decades.......happy to hear it....but since
>> he's not really a traditional Buddhist (although
>> he chants daily he is "Mahayana" as part of his
>> "Heart Sutra" practice) it's not for me to
>> criticize....except everyone seems to believe he
>> is a traditional Buddhist practitioner.
> 
> The word "traditional" means different thing to different people. I'm 
> not sure in what sense the Dalai Lama is not traditional. Maybe because 
> he believes the world is round, is opposed to what it says in the 
> Abhidharmakosha? Tibetan lamas who teach in the West make some changes 
> to make the teachings more acceptable to their egalitarian, fun 
> seeking, dogma and ritual averse Western students.
> 
> ----
> spring winds
> hoping the flowers burst
> out in laughter
> (Basho)
> 
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