[Buddha-l] Batchelor

[Richard Hayes]

On May 17, 2010, at 7:20 AM, JKirkpatrick wrote:

> If anyone ever called him a heretic, it must have been some lama.
> However, so far nobody has posted a source for that claim, so
> maybe it never happened. He'd not be bothered anyway.

I can't imagine that any Buddhist has ever called Batchelor a heretic. Heresy is not a Buddhist construct. For a Buddhist to speak of heresy would be, well, heretical. My guess is that Batchelor himself has said, probably jokingly, that Buddhists think of him as a heretic.

Richard