for anyone interested in helping to save Buddhism from China's takeover,
here's an international nonprofit site that's translating texts and distributing them free.
China cannot possibly "take over" Buddhism, no more than Vatican City can "take over" Christianity.
Did you think China was somehow "in charge of" Buddhism? It's not.
no, i don't think so, but they're trying. claiming they have "found" Maitreya buddha and will install him when HH dies.
it's like what's happening with Christianity. so, the texts are being preserved from tampering, as tyrants are wont to do, as per deSantis and ilk.
Anyway, all China can do to Buddhism is to turn Chinese Buddhist sites into theme parks and tourist attractions, and they've already done that.
I have no idea what actually concerns you here.
the preservation of knowledge. over and out.
China can't destroy the Buddhist Canon, either. There are copies literally EVERYWHERE.
not of the texts on this project.
I'm sorry, you're completely mistaken about that.
There are complete collections of the entire Tibetan Buddhist Canon (and the Chinese Canon, and the Theravada Tripitika, and the Japanese Canon, and more) at several US universities, not to mention similar collections in other countries, and yes, they include the texts in that project.
@holon42
"They".
Do you understand that the Dalai Lama is a completely inconsequential figure to the majority of Buddhists?
Few Baptists and Methodists care who "they" replace the Pope or the Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church with, why would they?
No one who knows shit about Buddhism is going to be impressed by claims about "finding Maitreya".
Maitreya's not due for a few million years.