[Buddha-l] wiki wiki

[curt]

Richard Hayes wrote:
>
> I guess it goes to show that if you want a good education in
> Buddhism, you're a lot better off in prison than on the Internet.
>   

that works on so many levels.....

> I'm not sure I would take Wikipedia as a reliable measure of the quality
> of much of anything; 

of course you are right about that. it was a cheap shot. that's the kind 
of guy i am.

> I have hunch there may be a bit more to Western
> Buddhism than what one finds on Wikipedia. Not that I'm planning to find
> out. My curiosity about anything in Buddhism anywhere in the world after
> about the second century is pretty feeble. 

I can appreciate that - although for some reason I apply that logic to 
western philosophy (I lose almost all interest after Proclus) while 
being much more tolerant of more recent trends in India and China.

> Pretty much all of Buddhism
> has been moving pretty precipitously downhill since Nagarjuna. (What
> does Wikipedia say about THAT?)
>
>   

Actually - I'm pretty sure I read those exact words on Nagarjuna's 
wikipedia entry!

Curt