--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 11, 2006, at 5:30 PM, jim_flanegin wrote:
<snip> > There's 300,000 people in Kalmykia, that's less than Las
Vegas!-
> > Hardly representative of a western country with a large
percentage
> > of Buddhists!
>
>
> Indeed it is small. But it is nonetheless a western Buddhist
nation.
> Despite years of megalomaniacal hunger for world domination, I
don't
> think even Mahesh can claim that. Unless you consider around 2000
in
> Iowa (less if you subtract the Indian outsourcers...) a country...
>
> Nonetheless I wish the hopeful Fairfielder's the best. They sure
do
> put a lot of effort into keeping the sinking ship afloat!
>
I am not competing, or contrasting TM or Mahesh's org with Tibetan
Buddhism, so not sure why you say these things. I am just very
skeptical that Tibetan Buddhism even comes close to offering what TM
does for its adherents.
