I. Popularity in hospice movement
  A. Living/Dying Project in San Francisco
  B. Thurman's translation

II. Cultural Misappropriation?
  A. Fundamental question rocking anthropology today
  B. New Age and Native America: Comparisons
    1. Cultural ideas often taken out of context
    2. Mistaken for common cultural knowledge
    3. Commodification of religious knowledge and practices
    4. Cultural dissatisfaction with American Christianity
    5. Cultural outsiders as religious specialists
  C. New Age and Native America: Contrasts
    1. U.S. as a conquering nation
    2. History of Native religious suppression in U.S.
    3. Buddhism as a proselytizing faith
    4. Native religions typically family and tribally based
    5. Native American opposition to cooptation
  D. All religions are cultural amalgamations

III. Self and other
  A. Images of others always tell us more about ourselves
  B. Tibet as the "unknown" other
  C. Land of wish-fulfillment
  D. Familiarity as a means of reducing projections
  E. Tibetan philosophy as a possible resolution?
    1. Images of Tibet emerge from one's own mind
    2. Introspection will find the "other" in the "self"
    3. Don't mistake your images of "other" for reality