[Buddha-l] Hanuman guarding the Commonwealth Games

Erik Hoogcarspel jehms at xs4all.nl
Sun Oct 3 07:38:43 MDT 2010


  Op 3-10-2010 14:20, Dan Lusthaus schreef:
> This has no direct Buddhist content -- aside from an implicit relation
> between Hanuman in India and "Monkey" in China (the latter accompanies
> Xuanzang on pilgrimage in the popular novel Journey to the West) -- but it
> is the sort of weekend reading that is sufficiently bizarre -- and at once
> amusing and disturbing -- to perhaps merit some attention.
>
> NYTimes
> http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/29/monkeys-deployed-to-guard-indian-games/
>
> Monkeys Deployed to Guard Indian Games
>
And some newspapers complained about the sloppy organization, how unjust!
The next step would be to train cockroaches to ward off the wild ones.

erik


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