Pluralising like that also shifts away from perennial type thought which might assert Buddhism - or any human made religious tradition - is at core the same absolute truth or essence. These are human traditions w/ different contexts & practices. We're lost if we forget that.
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to give you an idea about how much Buddhisms differ from one another, compare Western Soto Zen Buddhism with its extremely heavy emphasis on seated meditation for everyone with Chinese Mahayana Buddhism, which has no meditation practice at all for the laity (only for monks).
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or compare the Secular Dharma Buddhism of Stephen Batchelor with it's strongly atheistic stance and rejection of reincarnation metaphysics with Tibetan Nyingma Buddhism with it's emphasis on interacting with deities and spirits and it's highly baroque maps of reincarnations.
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