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Chapter 7


Negotiating the Dhamma





The whole world is talking about Buddhism.

People debate points of doctrine in the tea shops of Burma, citing Jataka tales
or fragments of scripture remembered from recently attended Dharma talks.
Monks pass by their homes on alms round, mindful and dignified, silent until
someone poses a Dharmic question. People listen to Dharma talks on-line and
buy books by the Dalai Lama in the bookstores of America. Students attend
lectures on textual analysis of Buddhist scriptures in the universities of
Germany. Tibetan monks debate points of doctrine in the monasteries of
Bhutan, clapping their hands together each time they make an incisive point.
People show up to pay respects to the nuns in the temples of Taiwan then pose
questions about Buddhist life. Punx in Texas pull up on motorcycles at a
Buddhist center where they will sit in a circle and relate their personal
meditation experiences to other Mohawks, tattoos and pierced noses. Deep in a
forest in Thailand, a young monk, after weeks of search, approaches the
legendary meditation master he had sought to request instruction. Someone on
a subway spots a copy of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind in a young woman’s
hand and is curious enough to ask.

Just as people expound Buddhism in many languages – Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese,
Tibetan, Thai, Spanish, Malay – they expound Buddhism blended and washed
over with elements of many different cultures – Animist, Taoist, Confucian,
European Romantic, Materialist. Moreover, Buddhism has always been at the
cutting edge of communication technology: Recited for centuries in the
monasteries and forests of Asia as their sole means of preservation, the
scriptures then rode the wave of inscription chiseled in stone and text brushed
onto strips of cured palm leaf. A Buddhist text became the world’s earliest
dated published book.
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Buddhist blogs, while documentaries about Buddhism run on TV and people
run to theaters to watch Hollywood movies with Buddhist themes. Buddhist
entrepreneurs make a living by offering counseling sessions by telephone.


The sum total of these conversations, projected through time and space, gives
form to the Buddha-Sasana, the practice lives of the Buddhist community,
born of the Buddha, who first turned the wheel to begin the conversation, who
demanded of the monastics that they follow the discipline, who asked of all
Buddhists that they find Refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha,
and who then let the Sasana loose in the world. These conversations have
negotiated the Dharma ever since, producing the enormous variety of
traditions we find today, acting out both the malleability and the resilience of a
culture of Awakening. These are the life-processes of the living, self-regulating
organism of the Sasana.


In the last chapter we saw the natural and continual tension in a culture of
Awakening between Buddhist authenticity and popular but non-buddhist
elements, how authenticity is firmly upheld by the adapts and how authenticity
continually gains or regains the upper hand. I want here to look at specific
examples of this negotiation. We will see that these conversations verify the
overall trend, but also that they often get quite scrappy in practice. These
negotiations are expectedly most contentious as the Sasana flows into a new
land and culture, as it is now seeping into the Land of the Fork. Let’s listen in
on some of these conversations, both modern exemplars and ancient
precedents.





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