I would say so, yeah. There's meditation, celibacy, rules on how to live one's life, structured hierarchy...I'd say that makes it more or less a religious order.
This is talking of the prequels Jedi, of course. The new Jedi order that Luke starts sounds (from the few tie-in novels that i read) to be a lot more practical and less mystic on the whole.
What is this "lifted"? It is Buddhism, for all practical purposes. I mean, I think Lucas made the lightsaber part up himself, but that seems to be the only original facet that he tacked on when he stole the Jedi Code from good ole' Gautama.
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Date: 2006-11-16 09:29 pm (UTC)This is talking of the prequels Jedi, of course. The new Jedi order that Luke starts sounds (from the few tie-in novels that i read) to be a lot more practical and less mystic on the whole.
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Date: 2006-11-16 09:34 pm (UTC)Yes, even though a lot of it seems lifed from Buddhism...
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