[Buddha-l] Buddhism in Israel

[h.godavari at shaw.ca]

"The Jew in the Lotus" by Rodger Kamenetz has interesting insights on "JuBu"s (
jew_buddhists)

Regards
harsha godavari


Jim Peavler wrote:

> Somewhat off the subject, but perhaps relevant, is that a very high
> percentage of my Zen friends are Jewish, and many are "practicing"
> jews. This has given me the opportunity on several occasions to eat
> bitter herbs with the families of friends.
>
> I doubt that it is possible for some of the Islamic, or the Baptist,
> faiths to express an interest in Buddhism in public. I was invited to
> a book club in Idaho Falls where thy were reading about Buddhism (I
> have forgotten the book -- I didn't stay very long) where the point
> of reading about Buddhism was to demonstrate that the Buddha was a
> proto-mormon -- which he might have been for all I know.  They read
> the big 5 works of Plato with the same intent.
>
> But at least they didn't kill people for having books.
>
> Jim Peavler
> jmp at peavler.org
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