[Buddha-l] Nalanda's library destruction

[James A Stroble]

On Wed, 15 May 2013 00:35:33 -0400
"Dan Lusthaus" <vasubandhu at earthlink.net> wrote:

> > Show me where to look that is not staring into the mirror.
> 
> Tathata.
> 
> Dan
 
So, I was just wondering who we should be killing, in the most
non-karmic way, as true bodhisattvas, to avenge the burning of the
library at Nalanda. Of course I am opposed to the burning of libraries
in general, whether at Alexandria, or under the First Emperor of
China, or in Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" (really, this movie
hit me hard, at the end the monastery's library is torched, and I
could not help but think: " NO!  Chainsaw as many teenagers as you
like, but not the BOOKS!), or whatever sad episodes in the history of
humanity (and the burning of the Mayan codexes comes to mind), but the
point is:  Does this affect the transmission of the Dharma?   So what
are we arguing about here?  


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Yours, 

James Andy Stroble
Leeward Community College