While I was mired in a weather-related funk I missed an interesting NPR “Morning Edition” story right in my own back yard. It’s about the Buddhist chapel at the U.S. Air Force Academy.
Sarah Bender, who leads the AFA’s Buddhist program, is also the resident teacher with Springs Mountain Sangha, the local Zen outfit. Buddhism and Death From Above might seem incompatible to some, but Bender says no: “People in the military come up — for real — against questions that most of us just consider abstractly. The questions of Buddhism are the questions of life and death. So, where else would you want Buddhism than right there where those questions are most vivid?”
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To some degree, this is a gesture to get the Air Force Academy out of the seriously hot water that grew out of their recent attempts to circumvent the First Amendment by turning over religious instruction to the Jesoids of Bibleburg. But sure, this is an improvement over ’05.
Probably need one of those temples in Bombtown as well, given the well known connection between design and delivery systems.