[Buddha-l] "Buddhist propaganda"

[Federico Andino]

However, I would posit that you could make a movie out of the second and not
out of the first, so in samsaric terms, the cabal wins.

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Richard P. Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 12:32 -0500, Curt Steinmetz wrote:
>
> > I'm wondering how many people can tell the difference between the
> > following two statements.
> >
> > 1. Westerners have consistently misunderstood and misrepresented
> Buddhism.
> >
> > 2. A sinister cabal of Buddhist monastic intellectuals and their
> > brainwashed western academic stooges have engaged in a systematic
> > propaganda campaign to defraud the general public by hiding the Dark
> > Side of Buddhism from the world.
>
> Well, both are false. The second one is more wordy than the first. In
> general, I think if one is going to say something false, it is better to
> be concise, so I prefer the first statement to the second.
>
> --
> Richard P. Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu>
> University of New Mexico
>
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