USA Today: “Is Tiger Woods Still a Buddhist?”
by Danny Fisher
Photo by Robert Cianflone for Getty Images.
This from USA Today:
Tiger Woods, a year past the debacle that cost him his marriage and endorsements worth millions of dollars, is no longer wearing his wear-it-forever Buddhism bracelet.
He told The Golf Channel in a March interview that the pink strings on his wrist were a Buddhism bracelet intended to offer him “strength and protection,” and remind him the ancient philosophy that he learned in childhood from his Buddhist mother (then forgot as he strayed into serial infidelities.)
Interviewer Kelly Tilghman asked him it would be wearing it “for the rest of your life?” and Woods replied, “Absolutely.”
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Months later… bracelet? What bracelet? By November 8, Radar Online had already noticed that Woods had shed the stringsduring a tournament in Thailand.
At the November 14 Australian Masters matches, still no bracelet (see photo above).
His November 17 preemptive posting for Newsweek, all about how much he’s trying to be a better person, also made no mention of any faith or philosophy.
Arun of Angry Asian Buddhist wrote a great post about the meaning of the string many months back. Check it out at Dharma Folk.
[...] myself.) In addition, the situation provided opportunities for education on a few issues, including Buddhist bracelets and views on transgressions—as Arun at Angry Asian Buddhist put it, “While I’m not [...]