08-08-2010, 12:00 AM
Tiff wrote:Q: How do I become a Lama?A: Go to a monastic university and study for twenty-five years.
Begin by memorizing Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakosha with its commentary (500
pages or so). Then study what you have memorised by hearing lectures on
it and debating the contents with other candidates until you can argue
every side of every controversy equally well. Then memorise several works
of Nagarjuna, along with their commentaries. Then memorise the seven treatises
of Dharmakirti. In additional to that study, you must master several forms
of meditation and study tantric rituals for about two or three years.
Alternatively, you can come to America and just call yourself a lama.
Billions of nubile virgins will follow you everywhere and give you money.
Q: How many wives does Buddhism allow?
A: You may have as many as your tolerance for misery can bear.
LMAO!
Begin by memorizing Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakosha with its commentary (500
pages or so). Then study what you have memorised by hearing lectures on
it and debating the contents with other candidates until you can argue
every side of every controversy equally well. Then memorise several works
of Nagarjuna, along with their commentaries. Then memorise the seven treatises
of Dharmakirti. In additional to that study, you must master several forms
of meditation and study tantric rituals for about two or three years.
Alternatively, you can come to America and just call yourself a lama.
Billions of nubile virgins will follow you everywhere and give you money.
Q: How many wives does Buddhism allow?
A: You may have as many as your tolerance for misery can bear.
LMAO!