To: Red Badger
The Buddha is a man. The original one was a man and all subsequent ones are men. Don’t know if wimmin are allowed to be the Buddha, maybe somebody can answer that one.
20 posted on
08/04/2007 9:04:00 AM PDT by
RightWhale
(It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
To: RightWhale
I am Buddah. You are Buddah. We are Buddah.........OMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM................oMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM,,,,,,,,,
22 posted on
08/04/2007 9:07:15 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(All I know about Minnesota, I learned from Garrison Keilor.............)
To: RightWhale
Actually, we are all Buddhas - even Buddha said that upon his enlightenment.
38 posted on
08/04/2007 1:57:00 PM PDT by
Humvee
(Beliefs are more powerful than facts - Paulus Atreides)
To: RightWhale
The Buddha is a man. The original one was a man and all subsequent ones are men. Don’t know if wimmin are allowed to be the Buddha, maybe somebody can answer that one.
There have been several female bodhisattva (enlightend or awaken human beings) the most famouse is
Kwan Yin.
47 posted on
08/05/2007 8:52:33 AM PDT by
Talking_Mouse
(O Lord, destroy Islam by converting the Muslims to Christianity.)
To: RightWhale
Don’t know if wimmin are allowed to be the Buddha, maybe somebody can answer that one.
Tara, the protectress is a feminine Buddha. An emination of Chenrizik, or Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Infinite Compassion
48 posted on
08/06/2007 10:36:50 AM PDT by
jrg
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