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To: talk.religion.buddhism
From: namdrol@aol.com (Namdrol)]
Subject: Re: Siddhartha Guatama's teachings?
Date: 49941122
....I am really tired of Westerners blithely assuming
that the prejuidices of Western scholarship about the authenticity of
various Buddhist scriptures established in the 19th century are somehow a
canonical "fact". I wish you all would just read Vasubandhus's
Abhidharmakoshabhasyam, you will find that even the Hinayana schools in
India could not agree with each other on what was a scripture of the
Buddha as opposed to a a forgery. There is absolutely no good evidence to
contradict that the core of many Mahayana sutras are derived from
authentic oral tradtions from the Buddha, further, there is the fact of
revelation by enlightened beings lika Nagarjuna, who were in direct
contact with Sambhoghakaya realms ("Mere assertion!" the peanut gallery
cries in outrage). The Buddha had many different types of disciples,
monks, nuns, yogis, laypeople, prostitutes who passed down many oral
traditions. Further, Buddhavacana as defined by Vasubandhu is merely any
scripture which is consistent with the teaching of dependent origination,
which in point of fact, all Mahayana sutras are.
YITD
Namdrol
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