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by Queequeg
Tue Apr 02, 2024 3:07 am
Forum: East Asian Buddhism
Topic: Buddhism among Asian Americans-Pew Research Center
Replies: 1
Views: 105

Re: Buddhism among Asian Americans-Pew Research Center

Very interesting. Thank you. The breakdown by national origin is much more meaningful. I mean, unless they are ethnically Chinese, I would not expect any Filipinos to be connected to Buddhism by heritage. Higher affiliation with Buddhism seems to coincide with the vitality of Buddhism in the home co...
by Queequeg
Tue Apr 02, 2024 12:55 am
Forum: East Asian Buddhism
Topic: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
Replies: 35
Views: 974

Re: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?

:alien: No, that's right, and it's maybe my biggest criticism of Zen in the West. I think we do a terrible job of introducing new practitioners to the foundations of Buddhist practice. In a lot of places, you get a ten-minute Zazen lesson and a book list, and away we go. And IME when people are int...
by Queequeg
Mon Apr 01, 2024 10:30 pm
Forum: East Asian Buddhism
Topic: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
Replies: 35
Views: 974

Re: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?

Thanks, interesting insights on Japanese culture, I’ve actually had a similar thought at times about the general emphasis on altruism, what’s perceived as “politeness”, etc. According to the earliest Chinese accounts of the Japanese, they were always communitarian, but I am sure that this was enhan...
by Queequeg
Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:03 pm
Forum: East Asian Buddhism
Topic: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
Replies: 35
Views: 974

Re: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?

This is purely personal opinion, but my take is that you can find implicit or embryonic versions of most big Mahayana concepts in Pali literature, but that's looking at Pali stuff through Mahayana eyes I guess. IME looking at original Pali sources is not common in Tibetan schools either, but the in...
by Queequeg
Mon Apr 01, 2024 6:34 pm
Forum: East Asian Buddhism
Topic: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
Replies: 35
Views: 974

Re: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?

I don't know if there is an equivalent pedagogical scheme in East Asian Mahayana (I've always sort of assumed there was), but in Tibetan traditions everyone starts with the sravakayana, albeit in a fairly abbreviated form. Sravakayana/Hinayana fits "within" the larger Mahayana scheme and ...
by Queequeg
Mon Apr 01, 2024 5:52 pm
Forum: East Asian Buddhism
Topic: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
Replies: 35
Views: 974

Re: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?

I think as Mahayanists, we sometimes have an allergy to going back to the basics and talking about Buddhism from the śrāvakayāna perspective (including a kind of narrative of the Buddha from a "historical" POV that could be built upon later), but actually, that's needed first for people t...
by Queequeg
Mon Apr 01, 2024 5:44 pm
Forum: East Asian Buddhism
Topic: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
Replies: 35
Views: 974

Re: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?

I have thought that Nichiren Buddhism is a school of lay buddhism, by and large, if not completely(?) As such it shoots off in a new direction compared with the established and primarily monastic schools/traditions. This type of lay buddhist organisation has also a chinese precursor and counterpart...
by Queequeg
Mon Apr 01, 2024 5:33 pm
Forum: East Asian Buddhism
Topic: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
Replies: 35
Views: 974

Re: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?

Japanese Buddhism needs to rouse itself out of the Edo period stupor. Some of the devotional schools have been more proactive - Jodo Shinshu, for instance, and some Nichiren denominations. The contemplative schools I think are still struggling to find footing without watering the practice tradition...
by Queequeg
Sun Mar 31, 2024 4:43 pm
Forum: East Asian Buddhism
Topic: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
Replies: 35
Views: 974

Re: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?

Buddhism is on the retreat in Japan. I think its part of the same secularizing tendencies across the developed world. Its a significant concern in the Buddhist community from what I understand. I've seen Matylda refer to this within zen communities. My personal hypothesis is the lack of practice. I...
by Queequeg
Sat Mar 30, 2024 3:31 pm
Forum: East Asian Buddhism
Topic: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
Replies: 35
Views: 974

Re: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?

Nichiren viewed Tiantai & Zhyhi as a substantial part of his lineage. He was a Tendai monk before going off on his own, and he maintained relations with various Tendai monks over the years. Personal experience, I can confirm Nichiren taught essentially a single practice based on Tendai/Tiantai,...
by Queequeg
Fri Mar 29, 2024 8:15 pm
Forum: East Asian Buddhism
Topic: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
Replies: 35
Views: 974

Re: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?

In any event, I hope Japanese Buddhism goes in the direction of less sectarianism and more cross pollination. I see this happening quite a bit in American Zen. I have several dharma siblings who have a Pure Land practice in addition to zazen. There are a number of Zen teachers who have studied with...
by Queequeg
Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:39 pm
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: Moderation, bias, etc.
Replies: 62
Views: 1396

Re: Moderation, bias, etc.

I thought it was kind of funny that David was confused with Domain Name System.

David can correct me, but my sense is that he is Center-Center-Right on the American political spectrum. All this conspiracy thinking about a leftist cabal running this site is ridiculous.
by Queequeg
Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:45 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Favourite Professional Sports
Replies: 31
Views: 824

Re: Favourite Professional Sports

I think just this year you can no longer grab ball carriers around the hips and pull them down. That sounds like the standard tackle in Rugby - how do you tackle someone if you can't tackle them around the hips? I just looked it up - what is illegal is what's called a hip drop tackle. Its a new rul...
by Queequeg
Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:14 pm
Forum: East Asian Buddhism
Topic: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
Replies: 35
Views: 974

Re: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?

Its interesting - you go to many temples and they are nominally one sect or another, but then they have ancient unique practices that make them something else. This might be more so with temples associated with Vajrayana, either Shingon or Tendai. In any event, I hope Japanese Buddhism goes in the d...
by Queequeg
Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:59 pm
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: Moderation, bias, etc.
Replies: 62
Views: 1396

Re: Moderation, bias, etc.

Pot, meet kettle. I'm not singling you out, but, many of your critiques in this thread could apply to you in this thread... Oh yeah? I don't think I have voiced any conservative or alt-right opinion in any of my thread. I've just voiced concern about the ease with which some manifest hatred towards...
by Queequeg
Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:16 pm
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: Moderation, bias, etc.
Replies: 62
Views: 1396

Re: Moderation, bias, etc.

Maybe its your tone? Maybe it's the exasperation rising from reading the hatred spread in lounge, as if it was justified because of a divergence of opinions. Pretty sad and bodhcitta-wise totally appalling... Pot, meet kettle. I'm not singling you out, but, many of your critiques in this thread cou...
by Queequeg
Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:11 pm
Forum: East Asian Buddhism
Topic: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?
Replies: 35
Views: 974

Re: East Asian Buddhism - any what-is-what (each school) overview?

There are a lot of books that present a survey of Japanese Buddhism. Foundations of Japanese Buddhism is a good one. Very quickly - I think a few of the original 6 Nara schools still exists - Kegon (Flower Garland centric) and Hosso (Yogacara). Tendai is a mix of ordinary Mahayana of the Tiantai var...
by Queequeg
Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:04 pm
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: Moderation, bias, etc.
Replies: 62
Views: 1396

Re: Moderation, bias, etc.

I perceive alt-right people - everywhere - whining about how they were not free to say the the things they want to say. But actually, they cannot stand that opponents call out their speech as misanthropic, unfair and dangerous. One could laugh about this twisting of facts, if it wasn't so demagogic...
by Queequeg
Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:55 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Favourite Professional Sports
Replies: 31
Views: 824

Re: Favourite Professional Sports

The NFL has been taking significant steps to protect players from severe head and other injuries. For one, leading with the head and using the helmet to take a ball carrier down is illegal and has been for many years - its called spearing. Incidental head contact is not a penalty. It can be a fine l...
by Queequeg
Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:39 pm
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: Moderation, bias, etc.
Replies: 62
Views: 1396

Re: Moderation, bias, etc.

If there’s no bias, it wouldn’t be a debate, would it? There were bias, so there were debates. There still are (in a certain form, in lounge mostly with a constant slight distillation of hatred, Kim O'hara, Queequeg come to mind...) Not sure what that means, but if I'm in Kim's company, I think I'm...

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