Dear Gunnar,

On a lighter note, as you probably know the Thais call him "Santa Papa" (which is
really Italia I think), but in Pali, it can mean "peaceful evil" or better (I hope)
"evil that has come to peace".

Sukhi

Piya

Gunnar Gällmo wrote:

> --- Ong Yong Peng <yongpeng.ong@...> wrote:
>
> > The Buddhist stand on other religions is always
> > embrace and respect,
> > and this discussion hardly leads us to anything we
> > want to achieve.
>
> Do you mean by this that we should "embrace and
> respect"
>
> 1. religious people, regardless of confession, or
>
> 2. religious practices and doctrines, regardless of
> how they look?
>
> Although the election of Pope Ratzinger (called, even
> by some of his own most devote followers, "Papa Ratzi"
> - perhaps the Pali nickname would be "Paaparatana"?)
> is largely an internal affair of the Catholics, it is
> nevertheless relevant to us as far as it has effect on
> the relation between the Buddhist and Catholic
> communities, and on the possibility to practice
> Buddhism even if living in an environment dominated by
> the Catholic Church.
>
> So I think it's well for us to keep our eyes open.
>
> Besides, I just read that one of the new pope's
> favourite writers is Hermann Hesse - perhaps not quite
> as Buddhist as some readers believe, but certainly
> still less Catholic; so perhaps there is some hope of
> a continued dialogue after all.
>
> Gunnar
>
> gunnargallmo@...
>
>
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