From: "Laura Please" <pleasla@westgate.hants.sch.uk>
 Subject: Please we need help-THanks
 Hello,   We really like Dharma the Cat he's so great. We are two pupils studying
 Buddhism for G.C.S.E at the Westgate School, Winchester, England. We have been assigened a piece of coursework on Buddist Monastries and there  furnishings. We would be grateful if you could reply and send us some photos  or a good website address.  Also we would like to know a buddhists opinion on this statement  "For  a Buddhist there is no purpose in congregational worship"  Please rely as soon as possible. We would like to thank you for assisiting us  with our studies and entertaining us with Dharma the Cat
         You Rule!!!!!!
 Thanks again, Laura and Laura

Year 9 students from England

From: <99swhite@brimsham.s-gloucs.sch.uk>
Subject: can u help
hello my name is stephanie white I am in year 9 and I’m trying to find out about Buddhism and i`m asking on the behalf of the class so we promise that  you will not get dozens of e-mails.  How many times a day do you pray and do you get your answers?    thank you for your time

Buddhists in Indonesia

From: "Cipto Handoyo" <x_skulliber@yahoo.com.sg>
Subject: Translating Dharma The Cat
HI David,   I am a member of a Buddhist organisation based in Indonesia and a regular reader of your web too.  Many people here have shown great interest in  your catoon, Dharma The Cat. However not many of them  can understand English very well. We get a suggestion  from our member to translate your cartoon into  Indonesian. So, I'm wandering if you will actually  allow us to translate it and post it in our web that  we are developing and our notice board in the temple.      I understand that some of the cartoon are rather  difficult to translate, so we will only translate some  of the cartoon that we have confidence in, in order to avoid any changes in meaning or wrong translation.  By the way, great job for the web. I spend hours   going through your web the first time I see it.
 Cipto Handoyo,   Jambi-Indonesia.

Japan’s biggest Buddhist magazine

From: "Kosei Publishing Co." <kspub@ppp.bekkoame.ne.jp>
Subject: Dharma World Magazine
Dear Mr. Lourie,   All the members of the editorial staff of Dharma World hope you are in good health and are enjoying the start of the new millennium.  We have sometimes visited your web site, www.DharmaTheCat.com, and have appreciated viewing your cartoon series. We would very much like to continue publishing your cartoons in our magazine.  So I would like to ask you about the  possibility of your sending us a new series. The last episodes we have received are Nos. 15, 16, and 19.
We are looking forward to your positive reply. 
Sincerely yours,  Toshihiko Nishino, Dharma World Magazine
Kosei Publishing Co., 2-7-1 Wada, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 166-8535   Japan
kspub@ppp.bekkoame.ne.jp  http://www.mediagalaxy.co.jp/kosei/index1.html

American Fans

From: Carolyn Cox

Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 6:06 AM

I appreciate the humor and intelligence on your site and on occasion I send the cartoons/commentaries to my friends and fellow seekers of enlightenment... thank you for manifesting in this way......

Carolyn Cox  South Carolina Dharma Group  tccox99@bellsouth.net

 

from The Netherlands

From: Dhyan Vidroh

Dear people,    It would be a great idea to translate the Dharma The Cat's Book in Dutch and I am offering my help in doing so. If interested, please contact me at my emailaddress: dhyan.vidroh@tiscali.nl   yours sincerely, 

Brazilian educator

From: Amparo Maternal

Congratulations... very special site dharmathecat... we'll use it in our human values education to our children... thanks...

Mário Lúcio, Principal   see soon: www.ovoluntario.org.br

 

Therapeutic value, from America

From: donelle  cymfu@home.com

Thank you for your wonderful website.  I am currently exploring buddhist ideas in group therapy after an arduous journey of indulgence and insanity that seemed to have no meaning.  Your cartoons and commentaries add new light to a life filled with drudgery and pain.  Gracias.

Clare Gibson   Portland, OR  claremcbear@hotmail.com

 

from a Buddhist monk

From: Martin  martin13@btinternet.com

I just have to say that the 'Dharma the Cat' series is wonderful.  Your cartoons are pervaded by the messages and the teachings of Buddhism. Yet beyond these teachings there is an even more intrinsic aspect of Buddhism, realised through the enjoyment of 'Dharma the Cat'....smiling and laughter.

 Thanks    Alex Skinner (aka Tian Shen)

From Canada

From: Suzanna Boyer  Suzanne.boyer@ccapcable.com

Subject: DISCOVERY & MEETING WITH A NEW CAT CALLED DHARMA !!!!

Hello, my name is Suzanne from cold & snowy but beautiful Québec city, Canada.  This morning I was looking for something humorous about cats to send to my sister in Phoenix, Arizona, through the internet.  And you have guessed, your cat Dharma & friends very gently introduced themselves to me.  Well, they fully captured my attention for quite a while.  They made me laugh, touched me & opened up my mind to learning lots of things.   WOW!, I am amazed how little I  know ,it never ceases to overpower me.There is so much out there....Anyway, I just thought I would say thank you for sharing this wisdom with me. MERCI & BONNE JOURNEE!  Suzanne Boyer

 

High School Teacher

 From: Linda K. Brown  lkbrown@clark.net

To: dharma@dharmathecat.com

Wonderful site.  I have forwarded it to my high school students

 

a Buddhist in an American Christian community

From: <Jomolungma2000@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Dharma The Cat update
Hello David-   I just got your e-mail.  You are so kind to answer,  I'm sure you are very busy.  ''Dharma" was wonderful as usual.  I am from a very Christian area just north of Boston, Ma. in the states.  I get a lot of funny looks when I tell people that I am Buddhist (my boss insists I belong to a cult).  I always send them to your site.  It is a wonderful way to explain things and put them at ease.  Bravo for your efforts at spreading the Dharma.  I wish you the best with your book.  I'm sure it will do well.
Is that your cat at the piano?  Such a talented family! 
Thanks again for everything,  Krista
 

Japanese Zen/Martial Arts instructor in America

From: "McCluer, Richmond" <richmond.mccluer@pubdef.state.mn.us>
Subject: wonderful
I found your wonderful series and it really hits close to home for me. I
am a traditional Japanese martial arts instructor/student who has been
studying Soto Zen for 8-10 years.

The reason I write is to make a humble request: I write and edit a small  newsletter for our Minnesota karate organization. The newsletter is distributed to our  students here in Minnesota, and we also send copies to our schools in other  states to share with their students. I would love to be able to reprint your  strips, perhaps with your commentary, in our newsletter, together with the  link to the longer commentaries. I think it would be meaningful to all our  students, both junior and adult.  I don't have $ to send you, but I respect  your copyright and don't want to use your material without permission.
Richmond H. McCluer, Jr.