I am curious, do you think Buddhists relate to their teachers differently than in other religions? The answer seems an obvious yes, at least to me. So I wonder if it's because Buddhism is so much a reliance on the self that allows us to throw crap at teachers with relative no impunity. In other religions if you criticize the teacher you get called a blasphemer, but in Buddhism they say that's fine, go find another. All this is from my limited perspective and history, so enlighten me (and the rest of us) further.