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Published: 13 December 2007

Other god

• HOW can Simon Wroe (It’s no Zen garden centre as burglars bag Buddha statues, November 29) justify the expression “the pot-bellied gods” to describe the stolen statues?
I am afraid he is perpetuating the mistake of confusing the Buddha’s image with that of the usually grinning and overweight, pot-bellied image of the Chinese god of abundance and enjoyment, which has no connection with Buddhism and belongs to quite another belief.
VALERIE LAMB
N2

Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Camden New Journal, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@camdennewjournal.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Tuesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for reasons of space.

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