[Buddha-l] The upaya express

[JKirkpatrick]

......... Funerals have been the major money maker for Buddhist
priests and temples (along with an occasional exorcism). The
Buddhist instititions have become (or have been) merely symbiotic
parts of the Japanese cultural economy, a part of it that is
going obsolete. They don't cure duhkha, they make their living
off of the anxieties duhkha produces.

So drink up.

Dan 

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Ok, so if they've traditionally made most of their bread off the
funeral biz and didn't do much for duhkha, then who did? Pure
Land? Sokka gakkai? or are they all going Christian like most of
the Koreans did?

JK