[Buddha-l] Buddhism and Politics

[SJZiobro at cs.com]

In a message dated 7/25/05 3:56:37 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
s.mcara at auckland.ac.nz writes: 
> Interestingly, I read in a biography of Lama Yeshe, that he took an 
> interest in american politics, and supported the bombing of some middleeastern 
> country back in the early 1980s i think it was (I didn't note down where I read 
> this or any of the details, but I recall being surprised to read this!)

That may have been Libya.  

Stan Ziobro

P.S.  I tend to think that Richard's remarks in this thread are mostly right 
with regard to Buddhism in Japan, Korea and, before 1950, Tibet.  
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