[Buddha-l] Was Mr. Pol Pot a Buddhist?

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

Op 16-10-12 18:41, Jo schreef:
> (And I have to add, that I find Buddhism in general, across a half a dozen different sources, to be more or less outrageously contrarian, so maybe, in a sort of Post-marxist Marxian way, Žižek is a Buddhist.)
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I don't understand this. Do you mean the Buddhist doctrines or the 
movement and if the latter: the present or the historical one? Must a 
contrarian person always be a member of a contrarian movement or 
religion? How can a contrarian religion be establishment like in many 
Asian countries? Is there a new refuge formula  'I am contrarian in the 
Buddha, dharma and sangha'?
I'm not sure that the best response to a comment is just to say that the 
author is contrarian. Isn't this an ad hominem?

Erik