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From: Eric Takabayashi <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp>
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Subject: Re: Kyoto philosophical traditon
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Brett Robson wrote:

> On 8 Feb 2004 04:21:48 -0800, Brett Robson  ...
> >
> >I have studied Buddhism in Nepal and Thailand and most recently in Takaoka
> >(Japan). What passes for Buddhism here bears little resemblance to Buddhism.
>
> Although by "study" I don't mean I was a monk or a Dr Buddhist.

I met a woman with a shaved head who called herself a monk, who had come back
from South Korea where she studied "real Buddhism".

As for her own Japanese sect, she said one could become a priest after a one
week training session in Kyoto.