[Buddha-l] Buddhist stupa to be moved from NM Petroglyph Park

[Richard P. Hayes]

On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 00:09 +0600, Christopher Fynn wrote:

> One of the Buddhist monuments on public grounds in London I forgot to
> mention is the Tibetan Buddhist Peace Garden located in the grounds of
> the Imperial War Museum in Lambeth, South London. It makes a stark
> contrast to the contents of the museum and the various large artillery
> pieces and other weaponry found in other parts of the museum's
> grounds.
> 
> The garden was built to "encourage world peace and promote choice of
> non-violence"  I find it hard to believe you would object to something
> like this even if it were in a similar public location in the  US. 

I have no objections to a secular peace garden, but I would be very
strongly opposed to a Tibetan Buddhist peace garden on lands owned or
maintained by taxpayers´ dollars anywhere in the United States.

-- 
Richard Hayes