Good article - she might want to make sure she still has a job after writing this ...
It is a good article.
It sad to think how many people she thought were friends will abandon her due to her change of heart.
I taught yoga for eons at a local college. I learned about Hinduism... and Zen is just another aspect of Buddhism. Buddha was actually an INDIAN named Sitharth Gautama. So the Buddha SHOULD look like an Indian, either NO hair or a TON of hair. The Chinese changed the Indian Buddha to look Chinese.
The Chinese have thousands of gods and goddesses, like the Hindus. There were kitchen gods, garden gods...you name it. Some Indian women made their husband "god."
The ONE GOD religion of Judaism and Christianity was a world altering change for the good.
When my husband and I traveled to India he was positive that SOMEONE there was worshiping a '56 Chevy. The Chinese had a PANTHEON of gods. They still do, if the Beijing Comrades don't catch them.