[Buddha-l] Re: Political views of Buddhists

[Tyler Cann]

> I know from my own experience that Asian Buddhists tend to have
> social and political views that make their Western co-religionists 
> cringe.

Sounds about right to me.  Here in Thailand, most members 
of the Dhammakaaya sect would probably fall slightly to the 
North of Rush Limbaugh... you should see some of their 
gruesome public displays on the 'evils' of drinking and sex.
Additionally, their conversion efforts often outshine even 
those of the most fervent evangelical Christians.  

By the way my score was: 
Economic Left/Right: -3.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.23
Kind of disappointing.  I really wanted to be in the Southeast quadrant, just to be different.  And because Milton Friedman was cool.


 

 Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.swcp.com/mailman/private/buddha-l/attachments/20061220/6fbf6171/attachment.html