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- Sun Nov 08, 2015 5:02 pm
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: The Very Idea of Buddhist History
- Replies: 311
- Views: 81080
Re: The Very Idea of Buddhist History
I'm trying to avoid getting into an argument... Mahayana and Theravada scholars, when they are honest ... :thinking: Odd, really, since ...what is at issue is how reliable a record for pre-sectarian Buddhism certain texts are. All y'all've already been given a paper on this; maybe read it, see what...
- Mon Nov 02, 2015 1:02 am
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: The Very Idea of Buddhist History
- Replies: 311
- Views: 81080
Re: The Very Idea of Buddhist History
Then, read those 100+ pages, and comes visit me on the other side of the wheel.
- Sat Oct 31, 2015 6:48 pm
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: The Very Idea of Buddhist History
- Replies: 311
- Views: 81080
Re: The Very Idea of Buddhist History
I've gotten into trouble on this forum many times; so, I've offered a venue for discussing these topics that doesn't come with that danger. That's not a wiggle, that's a maneuver for the sake of social lubrication.
- Fri Oct 30, 2015 11:39 am
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: The Very Idea of Buddhist History
- Replies: 311
- Views: 81080
Re: The Very Idea of Buddhist History
This is a very optimistic assessment, It's quite middle-of-the-road, actually: http://ocbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/authenticity.pdf There's a lot of wiggle-phrasing going on in your post, but I won't address it here, this is the wrong forum. Come over to the other DW if you'd like to hear ab...
- Mon Oct 26, 2015 9:22 pm
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: The Very Idea of Buddhist History
- Replies: 311
- Views: 81080
Re: The Very Idea of Buddhist History
Of course, the Pali canon was compiled hundreds of years after the Buddha (and Theravada emerged well after that and the Mahayana). The Pali Canon is a compilation spanning a very long time, it's true; but the Nikayas from within that set, when compared with the Agamas, show a common baseline - the...
- Wed Oct 21, 2015 5:12 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Refraining from Halloween
- Replies: 52
- Views: 8926
Re: Refraining from Halloween
Halloween is a modern form of ancient Stone Age celebrations involving feasts and the honoring of ancestors & spirits with offerings of food.
Does this sort of celebration exist in any Buddhist traditions, I wonder? Maybe there's a way to put a Buddhist Halloween together, for example...
Does this sort of celebration exist in any Buddhist traditions, I wonder? Maybe there's a way to put a Buddhist Halloween together, for example...
- Mon Jul 06, 2015 7:01 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: We've been doing it wrong....
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6225
Re: We've been doing it wrong....
Totally Mendacious.
- Sun Jul 05, 2015 6:16 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: We've been doing it wrong....
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6225
- Wed Jul 01, 2015 11:46 pm
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Spread of Buddhism
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5034
Re: Spread of Buddhism
Sure; but, let's have some literature on the subject, shall we? This is an Academic subforum...
- Wed Jul 01, 2015 10:42 pm
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Spread of Buddhism
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5034
Re: Spread of Buddhism
Luckily, the article covers that:
...or do you mean something else?
...or do you mean something else?
- Wed Jul 01, 2015 8:45 pm
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Spread of Buddhism
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5034
- Thu Jun 18, 2015 8:28 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Global Warming / Climate Change: Caused by human activity?
- Replies: 245
- Views: 35916
Re: Global Warming / Climate Change: Caused by human activi
Climate scientists caught fudging data again. http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2014/09/19/australian-meteorologists-caught-fudging-numbers Conservative tripe : In their 2010 book Merchants of Doubt, Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway wrote that the Heartland Institute was known "for i...
- Thu Jun 18, 2015 5:17 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Global Warming / Climate Change: Caused by human activity?
- Replies: 245
- Views: 35916
Re: Global Warming / Climate Change: Caused by human activi
That's what you need to do, still:WeiHan wrote:See.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/15/t ... years-ago/
http://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=18897
Educate yourself.
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- Mon Jun 15, 2015 9:55 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Which type of Buddhist tradition do Shaolin monks belong to?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6057
Re: Which type of Buddhist tradition do Shaolin monks belong
That looks much, much better.
- Mon Jun 15, 2015 5:56 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Which type of Buddhist tradition do Shaolin monks belong to?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6057
Re: Which type of Buddhist tradition do Shaolin monks belong
The Bodhisattva Warriors: The Origin, Inner Philosophy, History and Symbolism of the Buddhist Martial Art Within India and China, by Terrence Dukes might be interesting to you; it's sensationalism at its worst, but still...
- Sat Jun 06, 2015 6:23 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Why no Tantrism in Zen?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 12300
Re: Why no Tantrism in Zen?
Tantric Theravada? This term itself is disputed (because nobody can really define "tantra" it seems) but it refers to certain practices which have existed in Theravada countries of SE Asia for centuries, but which do not really fit into their Pali scriptural framework. Some references: Th...
- Fri Jun 05, 2015 3:53 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Why no Tantrism in Zen?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 12300
Re: Why no Tantrism in Zen?
To a certain extent, Saichō brought some Zen and Mikkyo together when he started Japanese Tendai Buddhism (eventually coming to criticize Shingon).
- Wed May 27, 2015 2:34 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Universal Atman in Buddhism
- Replies: 759
- Views: 201243
Re: Universal Atman in Buddhism
It's an argument from silence that won't grow out of being a fallacy, and it's getting pretty ad nauseam.
- Mon May 18, 2015 6:56 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: How exactly do we "move up" in realms?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3783
Re: How exactly do we "move up" in realms?
The interaction between merits being exhausted and kamma not yet ripening seems to account for it; at death, a human may have a velocity toward the lower realms or the higher ones or a velocity that sets them back in a human-esque realm, all of this determined by all manner of input: state of mind a...
- Fri May 15, 2015 7:33 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Universal Atman in Buddhism
- Replies: 759
- Views: 201243
Re: Universal Atman in Buddhism
Could this question of atman be in the class of matters the Buddha described in Simsapa leaves: No; the Buddha very clearly rendered statements about this. They have been cited all over this thread. I think for some affirming it helps, for others negating it helps. This is an approach that the hist...