--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@>
wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I said only that I can live with it as Jim's OPINION.
> > > That is clearly what it is, unless he's doing a Willytex
> > > and saying shit he *doesn'* believe just to troll for a
> > > response.
> >
> > No, not at all. Tibetan Buddhism IS in my opinion a failed
> > tradition. Just didn't work.
> >
> > From the Namgyal Monastery, Institute of Buddhist Studies
website:
> >
> > "Thousands of people in Tibet as well as elsewhere in China
starved,
> > were imprisoned, or were executed and thousands of people fled
Tibet
> > for refugee communities in the neighboring states of India,
Nepal,
> > and Bhutan. Thousands of monastic institutions and much of the
> > cultural heritage of Tibet was destroyed or looted at this time."
>
> And you're going to provide us with the unequivocable
> documentation that all these things happening always
> means that the spiritual tradition in the area is a
> "failure" exactly when?
>
Your insistence on this point is like someone arguing with me that
the car in front of us with no tires and a blown engine is a
perfectly acceptable vehicle to take the occupants where they want
to go.
