[Buddha-l] Denigrating Buddhism (Was:Social codes [was: Gandharan Buddhist Art at NY Asia Society])

[andy]

Richard shcriefed:
> My concern about the future of Buddhism in the West is that it has been
> regarded much too positively by the general public, thus setting the
> Buddha on a pedestal so high that the eventual fall will dash him to
> pieces. One of my duties as an academic is to inoculate naive enthusiasts
> of the Buddha-dharma against the disease of fulsomeness.
> 
> Richard Hayes

I have often surmised that exactly this is at work in the "Buddhist warfare" 
literature that I have been dabbling in this summer. Take Buddhism down a 
notch, show that it has bloody hands as well, but only in order to save it?  I 
am not really sure that this noble motive is all that widespread. 
-- 
James Andy Stroble,