Kudra and Sparkplug: Thank you so much for your input. It was very interesting.
Sparkplug wrote:
Personally I would love to go to a temple type convent place and stay a couple of years and really learn what it is all about. then I would really know if I liked it.I don't know if you knew this or not. But, in Southern California; about 20 miles outside of Los Angeles, is the largest Buddhist temple in the Western Hemisphere. I know that many worshipers live inside. The property that it sits on is enormous. Actor Richard Gere built a house really close to it, for convenience.