Alexander Berzin (scholar)

Alexander Berzin (born 1944) is a scholar, translator, and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism. Quotes The connotation of the Sanskrit word for a hell, Naraka, is a joyless. Alexander Berzin, in Wise Teacher, Wise Student: Tibetan Approaches to a Healthy Relationship, Snow Lion Publications, 16 June 2010, p. 191 Quotes about But if you want to tap into Berzin’s authority, then you should also acknowledge the latter’s belief in a soft and whitewashing view of Islam. He has devoted his best energies to Buddhist-Islamic dialogue, and like most people engaged in dialogue with Islam, he has interiorised a rosy view of Islam, where Jihad becomes a moral struggle against the evil in oneself, where “the enemies of religion” are not the unbelievers out there but the untamed passions inside. The same view prevails among Western converts to Buddhism about the “real” meaning of the Shambhala War, where the enemies of Buddhism who have to be destroyed are the evil tendencies in ourselves. The religion of the Nazis, ch 5 in : Return of the Swastika: Hate and Hysteria versus Hindu sanity -- Koenraad Elst -- 2015 External links Category:1944 births Category:Living people Category:Academics from the United States Category:Buddhists from the United States Category:Tibetologists