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Title: OK Text, Commentary of Islam?
Review: The Dhammapada text is fine. Cleary's commentary has a religious pluralism that is more American than Buddhist. I'm fine if Cleary has found a way to integrate many religions, but in a Buddhist text, it's best to leave other religions out of the commentary. Why would I want to read about Islam while reading the Dhammapada? I really don't want to know what Jesus might have said about a particular passage or what Moses would think about the Dhammapada. This seems to cause confusion. For those wishing to integrate multiple religions, there are many good texts for that already, but not a religious text like the Dhammapada. Neither would I like a Quaran full of comparative text from the Dhammapada or Vedas... Weird.
