--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Vaj, > > Don't Buddhists have this thing where a group of them get together > and then sort of have a boisterous debate about the nuances of a > scripture? If so, do you know of any Web sites where these > discussions are translated into English?
I'm not Vaj, but there is such a tradition in Tibetan Buddhism. But it's not boisterous, and it's not done in a big group. It's one-on-one. Two students sit face to face and argue the fine points of a very esoteric piece of dogma. And the most fun part of it is that the teacher often assigns each student the *opposite* of their own point of view to defend. That's a real kick in the ass, lemme tell you.
