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As the Dalai Lama is celebrated in San Pablo, more discreet with a Christian lay Buddhist discuss the appeal of the truth about the myth

This week has been supported by two notable events Buddhists. Monday, the Dalai Lama was awarded the Templeton Prize at a ceremony in San Pablo. On Sunday, at an event much more discreet, Stephen Batchelor and Don Cupitt Madeleine Bunting discussed with the possibility of religion without the supernatural in the guest house in Euston Road in London.

Cupitt is Christian, of all kinds, at least, was ordained an Anglican priest. But he believes almost nothing of traditional Christianity. "The whole system of Christian doctrine is an irregular building something with a history of human all too human, and ... the Bible, read it carefully, not to teach - or even support -. Doctrine Orthodox"

Batchelor, and formed 10 years as a Buddhist monk in Dharamsala, seat of the Dalai Lama into exile, but he believes that some of the central tenets of traditional Buddhism. "The type of interest Buddhism Lay Me ... implies a questioning of Buddhism from the beginning. And what emerges from this reconfiguration of core values ??and ideas could be something like Buddhism as we know it today. '

both believe in the finality of death. They assume that this life is the only one that has or may have, and it is absurd to suppose that the person, in any form, survive the fall of the body. The doctrine of karma is here reduced to a simple statement of faith that the world is made of braided causal chains: every effect has a cause, and is itself a cause other effects. There is nothing about reincarnation.

Displaying the ceremony in Sao Paulo, and listen to the Dalai Lama before I felt my internal weaknesses proddings Rupert Murdoch. When he described the Dalai Lama as "a very old political monk shuffling around in Gucci shoes," which was, of course, to defend their imperialist allies the Chinese government. But he was right. During the press conference in the crypt St. Paul, we hear the Dalai Lama said he was quite normal, one of the seven billion human beings, however, almost everyone in the room - even Arianna Huffington - addressed him as "Your holiness. "Who here was that wrong?