Buddhism in America? (mystic, experience, Christianity, Christian, service)

[vandervalley]

Did you mean romanising, or romanticizing? They are two very different processes.....

lol yes yor are right

I miss read the sentence by lilithu. yes so how do they "romanticising" or make Buddhism more appealing to the Americans?

[Engyo]

Lots of movies, cute commercials showing Buddhist monks, things like Zen green tea liqueur, finding little Buddha figurines in the health food store next to the yoga mats, etc., etc., etc.

[vandervalley]

Lots of movies, cute commercials showing Buddhist monks, things like Zen green tea liqueur, finding little Buddha figurines in the health food store next to the yoga mats, etc., etc., etc.

People do that in Asian countries as well..dishes in restaurants make use of Buddhists terminologies; kongfu movies with buddhist monks and elements etc. So we can't really say Buddhism has been changed or becomes commercialised in Western countries can we?

what do u think?

[Engyo]

Well, I think that romaticized is a bit different than commercialized. Romaticized means people come to view something as cute, or interesting, or cool, or romantic. Commercialized means that people are making money off the romanticization - using the images and ideas to sell products and services. So it's probably a bit of both.