and boy do people hate him for it
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well, people’s religious certainty depends on “The Buddha said it, so it is Ultimate Truth”; and also >
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vast scholarly structures rest on the belief that the whole Canon, or most/much/some of it dates to ~450 BC,
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and the field would have to start over pretty much from scratch if it’s mostly/all centuries later.
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and everyone would have to admit that they had not only been wrong, but failed to ask obvious elementary questions,
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throughout the decades of their academic careers, which was in retrospect really stupid
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Pali scholars claim to have hermeneutic methods that reveal internal evidence in the texts that make them self-dating
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But the different scholars have very different opinions about what these supposed methods reveal, i.e. what’s early vs late
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in a surprising coincidence, most scholars find that the bits THEY LIKE are early and the bits they don’t are late
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but not all scholars like the same bits :-)
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