[Buddha-l] Aged people or senior monks?

[Geoff Zinderdine]

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Richard Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:

> On Aug 8, 2011, at 2:07, Artur Karp <karp at uw.edu.pl> wrote:
>
> > D.C. Sircar 1957, p. 45: "meeting the aged and making provision of
> > money for them"
>
> The current translation of that passage in the United States is: "visiting
> the elderly and taking money from them to give to billionaires and major
> corporations."
>
> Richard
>
>
No, Richard that is the unspoken meaning.  The translation is "entitlement
reform".

Geoff