Welcoming flowers from across the cleansed threshold of hope: An answer to the pope's criticism of buddhism. (Book reviews).

From: Buddhist-Christian Studies | Date: January 1, 2001| Author: Tedesco, Frank M. | Copyright information

By Thinley Norbu. New York: Jewel Publishing House, 1997. 93 pp.

Welcoming Flowers is a short and tightly written critique of the Buddhism chapter of Pope John Paul II's 1994 best-seller, Crossing the Threshold of Hope. It is a strong, barbed, personal essay from a highly respected Buddhist teacher who expresses shock and dismay that the Pope's actual words about Buddhism that are read as absolute truth by millions of people around the world had "serious, gratuitous misr...

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