@Paladinus: LOL you beat me to it my seconds!

@Paladinus: >implying the buddha was reincarnated
fail OP

@Paladinus: Yeah buddhists are such intolerant ignorant bigots. They should try something more intellectual and fact based like Atheism.

@Paladinus: He's the reincarnated Buddha? I guess we better kill him, then.

@j31c3n: Why? He'll just come back. Again.

Besides, he's pretty cool.

@Anonymous: No, Buddhism is alright. But it's not better than any other major religion when we talk about temples and such. Actually temples are alright, too.

>civil war in Sri Lanka between Buddhists and Hindus

ok.

@Anonymous: Better yet. Buddhists v Buddhists war in Japan when Nichiren tried to prove their Buddhism the truest one.

@Anonymous: good luck finding two brains that agree. The kindness is good though.

Buddha stepped down from a palace to become a monk, this guy stepped out of monkhood into a palace.

@Paladinus: I was under the impression that the dalai lamas were meant to be the reincarnations of the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara not of the Gautama Buddha, im sure though as an educated white western man you would be well informed of this and explain to me why your correct right?

@Anonymous: "white western" yeah lets bring race into this. That'll enlighten everyone.

@Anonymous: purposely

@Anonymous: Is that Gilbert Gotfreid? It kind of looks like him. I guess since he lost that duck gig he's just going for broke.

@Anonymous: >implying wealth makes somebody bad

wasn't bill gates the new jesus christ again?

@Anonymous: This may come as a surprise to you, but the West is a cultural term, not necessarily racial.

@Anonymous: If Pope actually said that, I would respect it quite much. I'm just saying Dalai Lama probably wants to point out that the kindness is what matters, material stuff and everything comes after it.

Some folks like temples and religious dogmas and they've been around for a long time. So seemingly they have meaning to us and it would be quite hard to get rid of them. They have their supporters. But it's great Dalai Lama says we don't necessarily need them. I think it's quite brave. Pope would never say we don't need churches or the Christ, because his power relies on them. I don't know if Pope has some kind of life's philosophy of his own, but he hasn't told it out loud anyway. I would give much more respect to Pope if he actually tried to say something that would touch us as humans, not just as members of Christian church who are meant to obey the Bible.

@Anonymous: Really? You are scraping the barrel, if Hitler youth thing is already mentioned. I have no inclination to continue this 'discussion' after that mate. Feel free to believe that Buddhism is somehow mysteriously better than any other organised religion and Dalai Lama is better than the Pope just because he happened to have his head quarters in Tibet. Both Buddhism and Christan Church are persecuted in China for the same exact reasons.

@Anonymous: John Boner is an alien tho

Any buddhist sect that practices violence has already proven itself unworthy as a buddhist sect.

Dalai Lama is not taking anything away from anybody by encouraging people to be kind.

@Anonymous: How many serfs did Benedict own?