[Buddha-l] Aka-lika Forum

[Jamie Hubbard]

jkirk wrote:
> Indeed, and also what I'm wondering is what to make of the sci-fi
> turn the text is taking, for ex.:
> " whereupon, 'from out of the open space under the ground'
> simultaneously spring forth vast numbers of experienced,
> dedicated bodhisattvas.... Sakyamuni declares that for countless
> ages all of these numerous bodhisattvas have been diligently
> practicing under the ground,"
>
> and
>
> "Sakyamuni declares that he himself has trained all these
> underground bodhisattvas.... 
> etc etc.
>
> These underground bodhisattvas remind me of a contemporary theory
> in late-night am radio of a separate world of shadow-people.
> Maybe they are the undergrounders?
>   
Well, since the text is obviously written from a persecution point of 
view, my grad adviser Minoru Kiyota simply liked the notion that 
"underground" referred to underground cells of Mahayana revolutionaries. 
. . but then, this was the day of the Weather Underground and whatnot. . 
. so, persecuted groups who couldn't make their POV too public, and had 
to stay under the radar. . . er, underground. Not so complicated.

Jamie
> So, aside from hallucinations, what else?
>
> Joanna
>
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