https://www.academia.edu/9226555/The_forest_hypothesis_forthcoming_ … (inspiration for @Jayarava post) shows Western academic Buddhist history is based on wishful thinking, not evidence.
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@Meaningness Most of us have only ever read a fraction of the Mahāyāna sūtras because only a few have been translated into English. -
@Jayarava Well, yes, but also because they are long, dull, and make no sense :-) Probably few Western Buddhists have read through even one. - 1 more reply
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@ZigerShamisen Since they are contradictory, that seems true only inasmuch as monist idealism is itself incoherent...
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Passages taken in isolation seem to support particular religious approaches, but are contradicted even within the same sutra.
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