... a personal view Buddhist leadership, particularly for people of color in America. Leadership is not merely about conforming to the views of the politically and financially dominant. ... our community. However well-intentioned there are simply a few folks in power doing to Buddhism what we as Americans have always done: appropriate, assimilate, and take what we need then throw the carcass to the side. ...

... and "class oppression." Might we see a truly Mongolian Buddhism arise in the next century? My hunch would be probably not, but who knows. The connection here is that America is something of a hotbed for Protestantism. Most English-speaking former colonies of Great Britain are like that, but perhaps America especially. Then there's Mongolia's athletes stomping the crap out ...

... Buddhist cosmology are pre-Buddhist Indian legends. In Buddhism the difference (and this is a central yet woefully neglected point that ... piety by remembering the dead. Similarly, Latin America observes a holiday called the Day of the Dead. ... revelryNot coincidentally, these five all-American obsessions correspond to Buddhism's Five Precepts we otherwise live by when we refrain from:killing ( ...

... my forefathers were Americans Veterans, most of my best friends are American Veterans, and I still proudly believe in the America for which we raised our right hands and took the following oath: I,, do solemnly swear (or affirm) ... followers should kill Americans. It is also a war against all brands of Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hindi, Taoism, Scientology, atheism, agnosticism and any other ...

... the first thing we are going to do to welcome our visitors from far away lands, is to teach them how to say something in American. First of all, let us say, that your Buddhism gives us giant boners of Hobo proportions and allows us produce enough semen ... not question. OKAY. AMERICAN LESSON. When you meat a jerk in America, and there are plenty, say -Eat a Bowl of Dick- Please do not invite the ...

... )." From: S. R. Bhatt - Logic and language in Buddhism in: Brian Carr, Indira Mahalingam (eds ... time of Plato.' But the philosophers of Europe and America have not been the only philosophers to have been perplexed by them; classical Indian philosophers ... questions raised by certain contemporary writers on Nyaya and Buddhism. Moreover, the aim is to show an important function of language ...