Top 3 hotel-room books
My man and I have a habit of examing the hotel room once we check in. Looking into drawers, flipping all the switches in the room, checking out the toiletries, flipping through all the telly channels...Something was missing this time when we examined our hotel room last Friday. No Gideon Bible?! We had no interest in reading the Bible, but we did miss seeing it. A hotel room is never complete without the Gideon, right?? So we kept digging. We finally found a spiritual book on top of the telly - a bilingual Dutch/English copy of The Teaching of Buddha.I always found the Gideon in hotel nightstand drawers, and once found a Mormon book in a hotel desk drawer in Hong Kong. It was our first time finding a Buddhist book in a hotel room, so we thought the Alfa Empire Hotel in Antwerpen must be the pioneer of replacing the Gideon with a Buddhist book. But my friend found only a copy of The Teaching of Buddha at her hotel room in Hilton too. Ummm. Since when has Buddhism become so popular with Belgian people??
I was burning with curiosity - has this little Buddhist book become the next favorite hotel-room spiritual book and replaced the famous Gideon Bible?? I googled The Teaching of Buddha this morning and found out that this book has found its way into hotel room drawers in Antwerpen and around the globe for years already. Apparently loads of copies of the Buddhist book has been donated to hotels by the Society for the Promotion of Buddhism (Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, BDK), founded by a Japanese industrialist 20-something years ago. So next time when you stay in a hotel, look in the nightstand drawer to see what you can find - the Gideon / the Book of Mormon / the Teaching of Buddha??
posted by Miss Bad Penny at
10:47
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I think I might actually pick up a copy of that book one time. I've wanted to read the teachings of Buddhism for a while now, so thanks for the tip :)
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Lisa, at
4:30 PM, March 20, 2006
If you want a free copy of "The Teachings of Buddha", you could send BDK an email and ask for one. They are more than happy to send you one.
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Anonymous, at
7:33 PM, March 20, 2006
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