[Buddha-l] Lamas and such

[Dan Lusthaus]

Hi Kate,

> I pasted the passage into the google translation machine - gosh, what a
> jumbled mess!!

That'll give you an idea what part of the posting google is responsible 
for -- and I take blame for the rest.

> And thanks for the correction, though I'm going to hold off accepting this

I wasn't correcting, just reporting what the Chinese text says. Shangren 
literally means "High One", "superior person", but could be rendered more 
loosely as Exalted, which is what the google translator chose. I didn't 
think there was a significant enough difference between "superior one" and 
"Exalted" to change that, as long as the basic idea gets through -- viz. 
that, according to the Foguangshan Buddhist Dictionary, one is called 
shangren = lama because of inner and outer excellent qualities and 
activities.

Dan