About Religion

It is an honorary title, much in English that is applied to Buddhism is wrong "prayer beads", "Temple", "Worship", etc... Euro-religious-centric minds had no idea how to translate the Eastern concepts of meditation and personal growth. It looked like religion to them, so the titles stuck. Just like your understanding of one sect of Buddhism is being applied to all of the path.
Holy = enlightend... I suspect you knew this and are just being difficult.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

Just like your understanding of one sect of Buddhism is being applied to all of the path.

You mentioned that the Dalai Lama said it isn't a religion. His sect seemed relevant.

Holy = enlightend...

I don't think so... I've never heard "holy" used in a way that didn't involve deities, cussing, or Batman. The Dalai Lama can choose his honorific, and if he (or his English speaking followers) felt it was a poor translation I'm sure they could come up with another.

Of course, it's possible to follow Buddhist teachings without buying into the reincarnation stuff. Jefferson did a similar thing with the Jefferson Bible.