I am inclined to believe this is more tribal think than anything else. Group 'Y' does not like Group 'X'. If Group 'X' does anything or adopts Group 'Y' customs

I am inclined to believe this is more tribal think than anything else. Group 'Y' does not like Group 'X'. If Group 'X' does anything or adopts Group 'Y' customs, Group 'Y' rejects it as false and offensive. This happens all the damn time. The hypocrisy is that they complain about capitalism and it's consequences when they directly benefit from it. The irony is that the only reason they have any validity to NIMBYism is that land ownership is an axiom of capitalism. Anyway, there are plenty of sects of Buddhism, molded for their era and circumstances (Zen Buddhism anyone?). The author would do well not romanticize Buddhism or the subjects as some sort of underdog religious crusaders. That they are not.