Re: MD Sit on my faith.

From: Valuemetaphysics@aol.com
Date: Wed Dec 10 2003 - 04:34:30 GMT

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    Mark, did you know that he Dalai Lama considers homosexuality to be immoral?
    He feels the same way about standing behind a pint.

    Every religion has it's dogma as does every culture. Buddhism appears
    uniquely willing to look at it's dogma ( at least from where I stand), but
    it's still there. I think that Westerner's only get the best of Buddhism
    (in other words, its most intellectual version is what gets exported) since
    they get it from books rather than through their upbringing. I often wish I
    had been born into a Buddhist family instead of a Christian one since I find
    Buddhism much more intellectually appealing, but I wonder if I would have
    bristled at its dogma, too.

    Steve

    Hi Steve,
    Tibetan Buddhism is alien to me. I do not know anything of it other than what
    T Lobsang Rampa wrote about!!!!!! ;)
    From what i have learned, it would appear that the Buddha wrote a great deal.
    The systematised organisation of that body of work, or the Abhidharma, (about
    the dharma) may be the source of much dogma? I have tried to concentrate on
    the teachings of the Buddha in my reading, and have yet to discover a bias
    against homosexuality. Maybe i have not read enough?!

    All the best,
    Mark

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