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It has to dear Andy, but arround this cultural ornamentation we will found ever the core aspect of Dharma and that is what counts. Cultural ornamentations gives, in anthropological terms, a kind of fitness and adoption "tool" or process so that Buddhism core teachings can be understood for any culture.

I have ever felt, as an anthropologist, that being Tibetans a very religuous culture do to the previously Bö religion, buddhism adapted in such a way that Buddhism there has a very intense flavour of religiousity. The same for japan... sometimes during the seshin I took I felt I was surrounded by a kind of martial art doctrine...