[Buddha-l] "Buddhist propaganda"

[Curt Steinmetz]

Federico Andino wrote:
> 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.
>   

Buddhist Warfare: The Movie
The Dark Side Of The Dharma Like You've Never Seen It Before

I see Walpola Rahula being played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Actually I 
just want to hear Arnold say "I am Walpoooola Rahuuuula."

John Malkovitch will play the ringleader of the sinister Buddhist Cabal, 
His Deceptiveness the Dalai Lama. Or maybe Alec Baldwin could be HHDL if 
it's going to be a comedy. If it's not a comedy then Baldwin can play 
D.T. Suzuki, if it is a comedy he plays HHDL and Jackie Chan plays Suzuki.

I'm pretty sure Quentin Tarantino is already working on this, though.

Curt

> 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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