My saying yesterday that Theravada and Zen were invented in the late 1800s probably sounded weird! Prompted by @Sciamanoinglese , a summary:
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Breakthrough from David McMahan’s now hugely influential 2008 book _The Making of Buddhist Modernism_https://vividness.live/2011/06/16/the-making-of-buddhist-modernism/ …
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Is this yours? Where's it from? Latest post of mine attacks the myth of a unifying centre at the heart of all meditation practice.
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Yeah, ancient draft I found somewhere. Tweeted raw because I’ll probably never finish it. Your latest post is on my short list to read!
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Hah, we just don't tell you guys everything
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This knowledge brings me great suffering....
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Ffs Dave. This looks great, so I'll have to add it to the increasingly long bloody list of things to read ;D
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Birthplace of the historical Buddha is approx 6-5 BCE. Zen dates back to 6 century. ...but yes, things change over time :D
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