[Buddha-l] Appearances (was: Utah...)

[Christopher Fynn]

Richard Hayes wrote:

> As everyone who has read Thomas Tweed's books, America's
> Encounter With Buddhism, Seward was the first self-proclaimed Buddhist
> to serve in a US president's cabinet. When I was in New Amsterdam (which
> the residents now call New York, for some reason) last weekend, I saw a
> statue of William Seward in a public park (I think it was Madison Square
> Park). He didn't look like a Buddhist at all. This makes me think Tweed
> may have been lying.

Richard, just what is 19th C American Buddhist supposed to look like?
- And the 21st C variety?

- Chris