The Hindu Channel

Sunday, 5. October 2008, 16:53:39

It occurred to me recently, like about 10 minutes ago, that cable TV has
TBN, which is a (mostly) Protestant Christian channel. Then they have EWTN,
which my mom watches pretty much constantly if she's not channel surfing,
which is a (mostly) Catholic Christian channel.

But it also occurred to me that at least here in the States they don't have a
Hindu/Buddhist channel.

If you put the two religions together, Hinduism and Buddhism, they would
comprise about the third largest religion by percentage. So it really does
seem as if those religions should have their own channel.

But what kind of programming could we expect to see on such a channel?
Well, I'm not sure exactly. But I did have a few ideas. So here they are.

TODAY'S PROGRAMMING

5:00-6:00. "Sunrise Sitar with Ravi O'Donnell." Ravi plays this
morning's hymn to the sun.

6:00-7:00. "The Bhagavad-Gita." An exegesis of the passage "one falls
down when reasoning is destroyed."

7:00-8:00. "Beginning Tibetan Buddhist Chant." Lesson 326.

8:00-9:00. "Life of Buddha." Episode VI.

9:00-12:00. "One Hand Clapping with Zen Master Hiroshima Shiko." Today
Master Shiko beats on a rock with a stick.

12:00-1:00. "Intermediate Tibetan Buddhist Chant." Lesson 424.

1:00-4:00. Movie. Ghandi. Ben Kingsley, Roshan Seth.

4:00-5:00. "Secrets of the Buddhist Masters." Covered today is how not
to step on bugs.

5:00-6:00. "Carl Jung On Religion." Part 3 of 4.

6:00-9:00. Movie. Ghandi. Ben Kingsley, Roshan Seth.

9:00-10:00. "Yoga for Dudes." Covered is the Salute to the Sun.

10:00-11:00. "Kama Sutra for Dummies." The Flying Squirrel and the Hilarious
Monkey positions.

11:00-12:00. "Evening Sitar with Ravi O'Donnell." Ravi plays this evening's
closing raga.

[12:00-5:00. INFOMERCIALS.]

(And please, people. This is an ROB post.
I'm an anthropologist, I respect all religions.
NEXT MONTH: I come down hard on the Amish.)

New Dog, New LifeI Think My Dog Is Smoking Crack

Comments

By Stardancer, # 5. October 2008, 18:56:49

I knew it! You couldn't be the first:

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/

By ricewood, # 5. October 2008, 19:22:49

Should any religion be on tv?

.
Maybe the Scientologists qualify to be on tv but I can't help wondering whether tv can even be sanctioned by any religion that's over 500 years old. (let's not get into the fact that few religions are less than 2000 years old)

By qlue, # 5. October 2008, 19:29:52

@ Allan. Yeah, sure, but where are the hot babes doing yoga? My channel has plenty of that.

@ Aadil. My "religion channel" is PBS showing Nova.

By edwardpiercy, # 5. October 2008, 19:57:30

Hot babes doing yoga? I vaguely recall having seen something similar. I don't think neither "Buddhism" nor "Hinduism" were part of the channel name, though.

By ricewood, # 5. October 2008, 20:01:15

Probably not!

I guess that's why blogville is blogville.

By edwardpiercy, # 5. October 2008, 20:17:44

Well, Google gives me

21.900.000 hits on 'islam television'
7.380.000 hits on 'chatholic church television
2.570.000 hits on 'christian television'
328.000 hits on 'church of satan television'
268.000 hits on 'voodoo television'.

You do the math...

By Aqualion, # 5. October 2008, 21:05:45

It figures

By qlue, # 5. October 2008, 22:10:58

Martin, I have to go with the research.