I am interested in getting information on a specific type of
Buddhism.I am not sure of the spelling, but am guessing it is Pampiast
or Pampeast? Could you please send me some information. Thank you.

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Request for Question Clarification by juggler-ga on 25 Sep 2002 19:38 PDT

I'm having difficulty locating any information about any Buddhist sect
with either of those names. Could you provide a little more
information about where you heard (or read) about this?

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Clarification of Question by dogdaze-ga on 26 Sep 2002 15:29 PDT

I happened to have the Animal Planet on the other day. They were
interviewing K. D. Lang. She was speaking about animals being our
connection to the spiritual world and mentioned that she was a
Pampeast?, Pampiest?, Pampiast?, Buddhist. I do not know how the word
is spelled, but that is the way it sounded. I did find a site that
mentioned Pampean Buddhism. I think it was a newsletter, but I lost
the site and could never find it again. Hope this helps you in your
search. Thanks.























ampiest?, Buddhist. That is the way the word sounded when she
pronounced it.I do not know how it was spelled.I did find one site for
a newsletter from pampean

Hello.

Okay, kd lang was probably saying that she is a "pantheist" Buddhist.

Here a collection of quotes by and about kd lang, using that term:

From a Rolling Stone interview:
"I'm sort of a pantheist; I see God in everything, whether it's a pair
of runing shoes or a whale."
http://home.macau.ctm.net/~tina71/articles/rs01.htm

From the web page, "kd's image change":
"People described her as an icon of lesbian.  Others picked up those
words like feminist, vegetarian, pantheist, and animal-lover"
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/6880/kdintro.htm

From the article "Constantly Craving" by Steve Pond:
"When you're dealing with a country/pop/jazz/rock singer, an activist
vegetarian and out lesbian, a onetime performance artist and sometime
actress, a pantheist who once called herself the reincarnation of
Patsy Cline, a restless musical adventurer, it never is. The world of
k.d. lang is always more complicated, richer, more rewarding."
http://home.macau.ctm.net/~tina71/articles/live.htm



Pantheism is not a formal Buddhist sect. Rather, pantheism is "the
religious belief or philosophical theory that God and the Universe are
identical (implying a denial of the personality and transcendence of
God);  the doctrine that God is everything and everything is God."
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, listed on:
http://www.harrison.dircon.co.uk/pandefin.htm 

"In general, Buddhists are pantheistic in their view of God. Many view
God as an impersonal force which is made up of all living things and
holds the universe together." Source: Buddhism by Pat Zukeran
http://www.probe.org/docs/buddhism.html

For more information about pantheism in general, visit the The
Pantheist Index:
http://www.pantheist-index.net/

For more information about pantheism's connection to Buddhism, try the
following Google searches:
pantheistic buddhism
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=pantheistic+buddhism&btnG=Google+Search

pantheist buddhist
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=pantheist+buddhist&btnG=Google+Search

pantheism buddhism
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=pantheism+buddhism&btnG=Google+Search

search strategy: kd lang, pantheist

I hope this helps.

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Clarification of Answer by juggler-ga on 26 Sep 2002 17:30 PDT

Here's another article where kd lang describes herself as an "active pantheist"

The Guardian
Friday October 13, 2000
http://www.guardian.co.uk/friday_review/story/0,3605,381180,00.html

Some more links here: http://www.orderbeauty.com/religport.html  So
glad juggler found this for you.

Thanks again. I just did not understand what she said. It makes sense now!