20th century “Buddhism” was largely based on Theosophy—a 19th century European pop-spiritual movement.
A major muddler was Edward Conze, whose history @Jayarava reveals here. Important for anyone who thinks they understand Prajñaparamita—or should.
http://jayarava.blogspot.com/2018/09/edward-conze-study-in-contradiction.html …
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Replying to @Meaningness @Jayarava
Dukka everywhere! And at all times... This is fascinating, thanks. I was looking for that 'science is a bag of tricks' quote/idea recently - did you tweet something on that in recent weeks?
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Replying to @Meaningness @Jayarava
perhaps but paywalled so I guess not... it was by analogy with medicine - when you find a thing that works, you stop and work on something else, so you don't build systemic knowledge per se, only as a byproduct... might have been a podcast :-)
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