Prince Charles's advocacy of religious tolerance

[Jo of Palatine]

Originally Posted by milla Ca

The Prince also held dinner and many meetings with the Daila Lama, so is he maybe a Buddhist?

As Buddhism is not a religion but, when you go back to the Buddha's teachings directly on excluding what later happened, a philosophical view on the world showing a possible way to understand suffering (dukkha) and to deal with it (dharma), he can easily be CoE and Buddhist. Even the Catholic Pope accepts that a Catholic can be a Buddhist as well, so I doubt the more open CoE has a problem with that combination.

[milla Ca]

Originally Posted by Jo of Palatine

As Buddhism is not a religion but, when you go back to the Buddha's teachings directly on excluding what later happened, a philosophical view on the world showing a possible way to understand suffering (dukkha) and to deal with it (dharma), he can easily be CoE and Buddhist. Even the Catholic Pope accepts that a Catholic can be a Buddhist as well, so I doubt the more open CoE has a problem with that combination.

I have to apologize for my ignorance about Buddhism.
But i doubt that the ´combination´ you mentioned would be tolerated for a future King and ´defender of the faith´.

[Jo of Palatine]

Originally Posted by milla Ca

I have to apologize for my ignorance about Buddhism.
But i doubt that the ´combination´ you mentioned would be tolerated for a future King and ´defender of the faith´.

The thing is that "being a Buddhist" does not mean you join another "religion" or even "institution" of any kind. It's just a way for yourself to view the world and to cope with the suffering caused by personal loss, seeing cruelty without being able to help, feeling helpless and bound by obligations and tradition, having to face dire consequences of actions... a lot of reasons for suffering, but a possible way to get a grip on this suffering and reach a state of inner harmony and happiness despite the things being as they are. If the Buddhist way is the one for you, you just practise it in your everyday life without having to become an "official" Buddhist. From his first teachings the Buddha said that there are different approaches to different situations of life. There is the way to live Buddhism as a monk (as an "ordinated" Buddhist) but there are ways as well to simply integrate the Buddha's teachings in everyday life in order to find more inner harmony without any outer signs of doing so.

[milla Ca]

Prince of Wales to be patron of the Jewish Museum
September 24

It will be the first time the Prince has become a member of a Jewish community organisation in Britain.

Prince of Wales to be patron of the Jewish Museum - Telegraph