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Buddhist Display in Anglican Cathedral

Sean Gallagher and Simon Russell (new blogger!) are blogging about a display of Buddhist art, or a display of something while a recording of "Om" plays in the background. Anyway, it's on display in the Anglican cathedral of Canterbury, England.

Canterbury Cathedral has been accused of promoting "New Age" beliefs in a new art work which features video pictures of a naked baby to a soundtrack of Buddhist chanting.

The installation in the cathedral's 900-year-old crypt has upset evangelicals who say that the repeated use of the sound "om", which is regarded as sacred by both Buddhists and Hindus, is incompatible with Christianity.

Sorry, guys, but I really don't see what the problem is. As someone once quipped, "there is no one, from Franco to Chairman Mao to the Dalai Lama, who can go to bed at night sure that he is not an Anglican."

Posted by billw at August 31, 2002 11:00 AM | TrackBack