[Buddha-l] Will this be on the final exam?

[Curt Steinmetz]

Jayarava wrote:
> Hi Curt,
>
> Reminds me of the dewey decimal system: 
>
> 200-289 Christianity.
> 290-299 Other religions.
>
> Buddhism from memory is 294.3
>
> Perhaps we should ask them to update it. What categories of Buddhist, and what question would identify each category?
>   

That is a wonderful example.

I love the Dewey Decimal system - back when I was a work-study library 
worker (to help pay my way through graduate school) I was really bummed 
out when they switched over to the Library of Congress system. And then 
my heart was really and truly broken when they got rid of card catalogues!!

I am not inclined to lodge complaints with the Beliefnet folks about 
their little test, though. I think that by far the biggest problem is 
the whole underlying assumption that "religions" are definable in terms 
of "beliefs".

Curt