Amusing

Written by Sherry

Thursday, 17 April 2008 16:32

Watching the Pope's meeting with inter-religious leaders on EWTN. At one point, leaders of the 5 different religious communities Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Jain were introduced one at a time as they came up to meet the Pope. My eyes really got big when I thought I heard this: "Bishop Jongmae K. Park of the Korean Baptist Taego Order" The ultimate post-modern: A Baptist Buddhist Bishop! But it was too good to be entirely true. Apparently he is called a Bishop (Do Buddhists have "Bishops" or is this simply an westernized equivalent?) but he is not a Baptist. He is the Reverend Bishop Jongmae K. Park, Ph.D. from the Korean Buddhist Taego Order of Los Angeles, California