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Stuff You Should Know

Short Stuff: Laughing Buddha

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Did you know that the friendly, smiling Buddha we all know from bars and restaurants isn't really Buddha?

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:34.4

Hey and welcome to The Podcast, the short podcast, just the dickhead.

0:43.6

I still look forward to those intros.

0:45.9

Well, I'm sorry to let you down every time.

0:47.9

You'll never learn when you show up.

0:49.6

No, I think it's great.

0:50.4

And I enjoy them.

0:51.6

Well, good.

0:52.6

I'm glad one of us does.

0:54.8

So we are talking today about Buddhism, which is an extraordinarily complex, nuanced, layered

1:04.2

world religion, one of the big seven at least.

1:10.2

And there's going to be a lot of stuff we're not going to talk about.

1:13.7

There's going to be terms that we don't necessarily bring into it.

1:16.8

The point is everybody, it's not wrong.

1:19.6

Okay?

1:20.6

We're talking about a major religion on a short stuff episode that's supposed to be 15 minutes

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