Has anyone ever written a critical history of Buddhism? if they have, I can't find it. @Meaningness
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Replying to @jaspergregory
Not a comprehensive one afaik. I may be able to recommend readings on particular periods/regions/schools
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Replying to @Meaningness
I am looking for something about Theravada, from the 1700s. Earlier if possible
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Replying to @jaspergregory
I don’t know of an overall critical history of Theravada, even in the 1700s+. (I know Theravada much less well than other systems, also.)
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Replying to @Meaningness
Since the violence started in Myanmar, there have been quite a few critiques, but they seem like polisci or anthropology rather than history
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Replying to @jaspergregory
There’s a pretty big literature on Zen’s support for nationalism and wars of conquest. Brian Victoria’s _Zen at War_ is locus classicus
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Zen seems to have received the lion's share of Critical analysis
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Well they were on the wrong side of the worst war in human history, so yeah
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