[Buddha-l] Victor and Victoria Trimondi

[David Living]

Tibetan Buddhism has its faults and probably would benefit from a constructive criticism.
Even the tolkus are sometimes not convinced they are tolkus. Its politics - where there's 
Politics there's corruption. The question is do the Tibetans have the wherewithal to keep 
corruption in check or are they as bad at checking it as we are in the UK!

It seems Tibetan Buddhism often goes in for "Literalism" as much as the Theravadins do. 
Ideas like the texts are literally true - rebirth, Karma etc is literally true and for your own 
security you need to believe in them don't encourage creative involvement.

That said it would be a tragedy if China destroys it all.

Aryacitta/Dave