Buddhist Tartan?

[Daaaaang]

So I guess what I am getting from this is that there is no Buddhist tartan, there can never be a Buddhist tartan, and every tartan is a Buddhist tartan.

[Bugbear]

If you meet the Buddha on the road...

So I guess what I am getting from this is that there is no Buddhist tartan, there can never be a Buddhist tartan, and every tartan is a Buddhist tartan.

[gilmore]

So I guess what I am getting from this is that there is no Buddhist tartan, there can never be a Buddhist tartan, and every tartan is a Buddhist tartan.

Well, no. See the link McMurdo posted above: http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/t....html?p=345437

This is the lay version:


and here is the news story:

[Larry124]

Choosing a tartan,
And wearing the kilt with joy,
You are the Buddha.

[Bugbear]

Two threads of tartan
Meet and mix on their life path,
But they will not know.

[Archangel]

As far as any link between east ancient Celtic culture and west Celtic culture goes, go for it. Just keep a straight face. It will be as authentic as nearly all modern Celtic "history".

The Buddhist kilt: reminds me of the parable of master and the students and their bicycles. If you are simply wearing a kilt, then you are probably wearing a Buddhist kilt. If you have to think about it, you're probably not.

A Zen teacher was walking in front of the monastery when he saw five young monks riding their bicycles as they returned from the market. When they had dismounted, the teacher asked them, “Why are you riding your bicycles?”

The first monk replied, “The sack of potatoes are heavy on my back and so I let bicycle carry them.”

The teacher praised the monk, “You’re a smart lad. When old, you will not walk as I do, hunched over.

The second monk said, “I love to watch the trees, fields and sky pass by as I roll along.”

The teacher said, “Your eyes are open, and you see the world.”

The third monk said, “When I ride my bike, I chant nam myoho renge kyo.”

The teacher praised the monk, “Your mind will roll with the ease of a newly aligned wheel.”

The fourth monk said, “Riding my bicycle, I live in harmony with all sentient beings.”

The teacher said, “You are riding on the golden path of non-harming.”

The fifth monk said, “I ride my bicycle to ride my bicycle.”

The teacher sat at the feet of the fifth monk and said, “I am your student!”

[TheKiltedWonder]

As far as any link between east ancient Celtic culture and west Celtic culture goes, go for it. Just keep a straight face. It will be as authentic as nearly all modern Celtic "history".

I think any definitive link is highly unlikely and is definitely lost ot time. But the idea of ancient Celts in Asia (not Asia-Minor) is not as far-fetched as some may believe. There was an Indo-European language in what is now Western China called Tocharian. It's given its own branch of the language family. But some people have tried to draw connections between the Tocharian speakers and the celts. In the same area where Tocharian was spoken there are mummies (not definitively proven to be Tocharian speakers) with red hair and wrapped in tartan like cloth. Needless to say, some have tried to connect them to the Celts. I wouldn't bet my life on it and I don't see anyway that the connection could be proven based on current knowledge. But the Tarim Basin of the mummies borders the Tibetan plateau, so maybe this isn't the start of Buddhism's experience with tarten-wearing redheads.

[Bugbear]

Fourty beatings for wrong answer; fourty beatings for right answer; eighty beatings for no answer.

[Archangel]

Fourty beatings for wrong answer; fourty beatings for right answer; eighty beatings for no answer.

Okay, I've lost track. Sounds like part of a recipe for meringues.

[Archangel]

That must be where they make Jimmy hats.

Another definitive link, ha.