Buddhism: Yes, Gretchen Carlson, There Are Buddhist Nuns

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Yes, Gretchen Carlson, There Are Buddhist Nuns Sep 8th 2011, 12:35 Fox News personality Gretchen Carlson objected to the inclusion of a Buddhist nun -- Her Eminence Mindrolling Jets�n Khandro Rinpoche -- at this Sunday morning's September 11 memorial service in Washington. In fact, Ms. Carlson had not known there was such a thing as Buddhist nuns. Ms. Carlson's gripe is that Southern Baptists were not included in the Sunday morning service. I believe Christianity is represented only by an Episcopal priest, the Bishop of Washington. However, the Sunday service is the culmination of a three-day event that begins today and includes many more Christians. Here are some of Ms. Carlson's remarks from the September 7 broadcast of Fox News's "Fox & Friends": CARLSON: It's going to have an interfaith prayer vigil from all denominations, really. We were talking about this earlier. We're going to have a Buddhist nun, which we didn't even know existed. ... They're going to - it's going to feature the Dean of the Cathedral, the bishop of Washington, a Rabbi, a Buddhist nun, an incarnate lama and a -- a Hindu priest-- KILMEADE: An incarnate lama? DOOCY: Yeah. The president of the Islamic Society of North America and a Muslim musician. So you got to figure they were just probably checking things off, you know, a list. OK, we've got some Christians, we've got this, we've got that. KILMEADE: Well, what didn't they check? DOOCY: Well there is, I don't think, I don't think there is a Catholic involved there. And, so - but there are Christians. KILMEADE: But maybe the Muslim musician can play a Catholic song. DOOCY: Maybe. So, anyway, the Southern Baptists are saying, why are we not included? And they're hoping that the president won't show up. CARLSON: Does this talk a little bit too much about political correctness in our society? Sorry. I'm just going to say it. I mean, if you're going to include all these really sort of fringe groups, I don't know how many Buddhist nuns are in the United States, but I know one thing for sure, there are more Baptists than there are Buddhist nuns. So if you're really going to try and be inclusive for everyone and abide by this whole PC culture that we live in now, you would think that you would include a big population of our country. KILMEADE: Right. I think you could fit all the Buddhist nuns in our country in a phone booth, should we have them. This brilliant crew went on to decide there may still be phone booths in Britain. Jets�n Khandro Rinpoche is both the Tibetan Buddhist nun and the incarnate lama mentioned by Ms. Carlson. She is recognized as a master of the Mindrolling lineage of Nyingmapa and as a tulku of the Kagyu school. She has been teaching in North America, Europe and Asia for nearly two decades and has founded several charma centers and charities. She was recently profiled in Time magazine.

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