No dogma and no concept of blasphemy. In fact it encourages introspection and questioning.

I wouldn't be so sure, CS. I've known a few Buddhists in my time hung up on such bollox concepts as Karma and reincarnation. One was a bus driver who went sailing passed an old woman who was running for the bus stop struggling with her shopping. He excused this on account of karmic justice - that she somehow deserved it! Buddhism is the same old bullshit in a different box basically; it aspires to enlightenment, elitism and fabricates a spiritual hierachy the same way Christianity believes such hierachies were ordained by God or Hindus believe in the Caste System. Buddhism is no different really - it has its monks, disciples, and more funny hats and hoo-hah that you could shake a prayer wheel at. I may dig Tibetan Buddhist music, art & culture (a very fine display in the Liverpool Museum - we'll be popping in tomorrow!) but again on human terms. Amazing how all this Zen & Taoist stuff becomes New Age vacuity when adopted by the west - reduced to so much Cosmic Debris, though the basic writings of the Koans, the I Ching, Tao Te Ching et al would imply something very different, rather like the way the teachings of Christ bear no relationship to Roman Catholic theology I suppose. Anyway, introspection is all very well, but it's no substitute for a night in with the TV, or a game of footy with your mates, or a wander around The Trafford Centre, or a few pints and good old blow down your local singaround.