Is this the same phenomenon as when people bash suttra quotes on your face when you try to talk about Buddhism in critical/reflective way?
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I call those people "Dharma Bots" and they kill many interesting conversations.
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Where 'correct' means 'commensurate with contemporary scientific consensus' you must mean? 1/2
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No; it could be any of several standards. There’s just no willingness to engage outside the system itself.
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2/2 Certainly Buddhists still police the boundaries of orthodoxy. e.g. critiques of Dolpo-pa's theology or Shugden in Tibetan context
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Yeah, but this is within the system (hair-splitting schisms), and also is highly ritualized.
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Yes; he was a modernizer in many ways. He’s a product of the mid-20th Century, when Buddhism engaged with contemporary reality.
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Parts of what?
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Parts of Buddhism. Doctrine and practice, roughly speaking
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Or they just ignore those parts or reframe them into something different.
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Like that expression in one of your posts 'fixed that for you'.
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