The Age-Old Quandry: Manga Bible or Manga Sutra?
Jeff VanderMeer • January 25th, 2008 @ 11:12 am • Culture
Hmm. I got both of these in the mail today. Not sure which to read first. They seem too similar.
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January 25, 2008 at 11:22 am
I always find it troubling that people think sex when they see the word Sutra. Real sutras have nothing to do with sex.
January 25, 2008 at 11:46 am
Yes, well, in this case it’s all about sex.
January 25, 2008 at 11:57 am
What? You mean the Diamond Sutra is sex free? I have been lied to! Lied to!
January 25, 2008 at 11:58 am
BTW_ blame the American distributors. The original name of the Manga Sutra was Step Up Love Story.
January 25, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Yeah, it’s not really a guide so much as a series of moronic sexual encounters between two airheads.
January 25, 2008 at 2:54 pm
I’m guessing that the passage from the OT about the “donkey-genitaled” men inspired the manga representations of both?
January 25, 2008 at 3:06 pm
There’s plenty of fucking in the Bible, but they never do a comic about it. That’s the problem.
If they do it, they should call it — BEGATS.
January 25, 2008 at 3:19 pm
That’s true. And the manga bible seems to have left out the screwing in favor of people standing around talking.
jv
January 25, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Begats sounds like a title for a Biblical soap opera. Although I suppose if considered from another angle, it’d give “Holy Roller” an entirely new meaning as well.
January 25, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Yes Paul, the Diamond Sutra is sex free.
I remember while I was studying Buddhism being asked by a friend “And, um, what about the sex? I would be interested in learning, you know, um . . . . Tantra.”
Sigh. It is a shame when people’s “spirituality” revolves around getting off. Or am I just square?
January 25, 2008 at 4:31 pm
You’re so square you’re round. Now I think we should all taunt Brendan with the names of various Sutras we think are sexual.
jv
January 25, 2008 at 4:33 pm
A very cool idea would be a short book (40k words) titled:
Bible vs. Kama Sutra
Moses cross-legged chanelling his chakaras, Kind David naked under a Banyan tree, the Apostle Paul in the streets of Rome ranting about the peacock position.
January 25, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Yeah, well, every one has something that pisses them off. For me it just happens to be sexy sutras!
I was looking a month ago to see if any new translations had come out from the Tibetan, and amazon searched sutra…..I felt like I was in some sleazy news Kiosk in Italy.