[Buddha-l] Buddhist words for "Buddhist"

[Dante Rosati]

I dunno, but I was told by a Tibetan Lama that people who have the
karma to be born in a Buddhist culture, but are of low intelligence,
are born in places like Burma, while those of high intelligence are
born in Tibet. On the other hand, I took a palm leaf manuscript to a
Burmese Buddhist temple in Brooklyn to get help in identifying it, and
the Bhikhku there, upon learning that I studied Tibetan Buddhism,
invited me to come to his center regularly, to learn "the real
Buddhism". (sigh)

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Curt Steinmetz <curt at cola.iges.org> wrote:
> Would Tibetans consider people like Theravadins and Chinese Pure Land
> Buddhists to also be "insiders"? My guess is that they would - but
> perhaps with some reservations.
>
> But this sounds like the case of the Yanomamo - whose word for
> themselves ("Yanomamo") just turns out to be their word for "human
> being" (a scenario hardly unique to the Yanomamo). It's like saying
> "Tibetan Buddhists call themselves 'us'".
>
> Curt
>
> Dante Rosati wrote:
>> In Tibetan it is ནང་པ་ (nang pa) which means "insider".
>>
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