“Rereading the Stone: Desire and the Making of Fiction in ‘Dream of the Red Chamber ( Read more... )

I think I'd rather go to a Buddhist Hell than a Christian one.  Granted, in a Buddhist hell there is a big demon with a hammer the size of a Buick waiting to swat me for every mosquito I've killed, but that would still be better than burning in hellfire forever because of a difference of opinion.

Buddhist hell operates on karmic principles. You ( Read more... )