Little Buddhas: 'Tibetan Buddhism' is all the rage - although it has little to do with Buddhism, or Tibet.

From: National Review | Date: June 22, 1998| Author: Klinghoffer, David | Copyright information

###DAVID KLINGHOFFER

'Tibetan Buddhism' is all the rage -- although it has little to do with Buddhism, or Tibet.

ON bus stops across New York City, a poster for Smirnoff vodka shows two cartoon characters a la Jules Feiffer, one holding up a bottle of non-Smirnoff spirits. The man boasts: "This vodka comes in a bottle designed by albino monks from Tibet." Unimpressed, the woman asks: "How's it taste?" The question hadn't occurred to him: "Taste?"

In vino ...

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