[Avodah] Chinese repression in Tibet - al pi Torah?

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 02:10:07AM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
: Is your co-worker from Tibet?  Does he say that his religion is Tibetan?

His parents met in Tibet.

And the two books on his desk are from Snow Lion. Their web site claims
they are "publisher and distributor of books on Tibetan Buddhism and
culture."

And his description matches Wikipedia, to the best of my comprehension.
It's a very "saint" (bodhisattva) oriented religion, believing that
there are people who hang around after enlightenment to help others get
there. And they may use effigies to help focus meditation, including
effigies of the Buddha and other bodhisattvas. But they aren't worshipped
as deities, and make much less of a claim of such than the system Tosafos
called shituf.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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