Mahanayakas want a Board to scrutinize Buddhist books

[catmoon]

I am dubious. Hmmmmmm.

Great dubious, great enlightenment?

[rowyourboat]

the original books in question was trying to state that the Buddha was born in Sri Lanka. Not Fact.

[jcsuperstar]

i think it would be nice if there was some sort of board set up to aprove of books by giving them some sort of stamp of aproval, like some dhamma version of the oprah book club, but i'm not on board to just flat out denying people the right to publish whatever crap they see fit to publish, even if it is misleading, racist, etc.

when i first became a buddhist i had to set up my own little set of guidelines to make sure i wasnt reading crap, it wasnt the best system, but it was the best one i could think of, i just stayed away from anything writen by westerners, non monastics etc, these days i dont follow this system and in fact read a lot by people i would have stayed away from then (ajahn brahm, nina van gorkom, ajahn sujato etc) it would have been nice to have had a system already out there that helped me find great information with out having to set up what was basicly a flawed system of my own.

[pink_trike]

I wonder if the same care will be taken to make sure science and history books are accurate.

[tiltbillings]

i think it would be nice if there was some sort of board set up to aprove of books by giving them some sort of stamp of aproval, like some dhamma version of the oprah book club, but i'm not on board to just flat out denying people the right to publish whatever crap they see fit to publish, even if it is misleading, racist, etc.

The Catholic Church has aystem set up in place in place:

http://www.thewordstoday.com/nihil.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[tiltbillings]

You mean censorship? Imagine a Christian country where they censored all books which "distort" the official account of Jesus' life.

If you want to talk about censorship, look at your own country - one of the most repressive when it comes to intellectual freedom.

http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/b ... /index.cfm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Now, now, now. Not a fair statement at all.

[Ben]

Hi Tilt

Perhaps you didn't see my follow-up...

If you want to talk about censorship, look at your own country - one of the most repressive when it comes to intellectual freedom.

wow. Didn't see that coming.

My apologies for the akusala dhammas!
Ben

Ben