[Buddha-l] Political views of Buddhists

[Richard Hayes]

On Thursday 14 December 2006 17:56, Jackhat1 at aol.com wrote:

> The results might tell us more about the political views of academics than
> the political views of Buddhists.

In the United States the vast majority of Buddhists are highly educated, and 
many are academics or writers or artists. My guess is that Asian Buddhists 
would be much less communistic-libertarian than all those who have reported 
to buddha-l have been. Hell, I don't even have to guess. I know from my own 
experience that Asian Buddhists tend to have social and political views that 
make their Western co-religionists cringe.



-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico
http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes