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AR: Yes because obviously there’s Eigen, Epstein, Rubin, (mumbled words) as you
say there’s quite a number of people and once you are in contact with them and you
read their work in fact they introduce you to another layer of analysts who are
interested in Buddhism
DB: Yes
AR: It feels they are the tip of the iceberg
DB: Yes exactly
AR: Although obviously they have quite different variations of Buddhism are at work
once you start reading
DB: yes
AR: their particular work uuh and obviously here in Britain I guess Nina Coltart I
guess is probably as far as I understood or as far as I have read the one analyst who
was more open about Buddhism than anyone else in a way that impacted on their
writings
DB: hmn
AR: and has been for quite some time, you know I think, from the early Nineties and
‘Slouching towards Bethlehem’ and other papers
DB: yes
AR: which she produced. So there’s there’s a difference in terms of slant, do you
think that is something about British and American culture? I’m just thinking about
the dominance of a of a religious ideology that has certain governmental and (pause)
what am I trying to say (soft voice), that that that that Protestantism uhm is certainly
very different in America than it is in Britain.
DB: Yes, yes (soft)
AR: And it’s you know it means certain things, if you talk about being religious it’s
seen as church going or a particular form of way of thinking uhm
DB: Yes
AR: That is presumably right-wing and traditional and (pause) so …
DB: Yes I think America is much more open to religious ways of thinking including a
lot of Christian Right but also probably many more Buddhist teachers ended up in
America. I mean I know of several Tibetan Buddhists who went to America in the
60s and 70s. And before that there were the Japanese who actually gathered
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