[FreeTheHostages]

Sigh -- thanks for the ping but it was so sad to read this. It was the Taliban that blew up that Buddhist sculpture too. Incomprehensible that people here should be as intolerant as the Taliban. I'm sure the Taliban finds the Dalai Lama silly too. I have absolutely no doubt that if C. S. Lewis were alive, he would find the Dalai Lama to be a great man and vice versa.

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Incomprehensible that people here should be as intolerant as the Taliban.

Oh spare me the cliché-laden melodrama!

Nobody around here has advocated blowing up the Dali Lama.

Some people raised some questions they have about Tibetan Buddhist tenets, while others laughed a little at the simplistic statements quoted and the doe-eyed westerners who embrace them as deep thoughts.

You can stop the drama-queen weeping anytime now.