Yes, but this move can and has been made with other religions, so there's nothing special about Buddhism here.
-
-
Replying to @evantthompson
What are the other moves that are novel with respect to Buddhism? In the sense of which features of Buddhism provoke those claims? I'd imagine the supposed lack of a Supreme Being or its atheism are among them?
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @EyeOnThePitch
Buddhism doesn't lack a supreme being -- the Buddha, especially in Mahayana Buddhism, is a supreme being (though not a creator deity).
2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @evantthompson
Indeed. But that's a common claim made about it, which I'd imagine underwrites some of these modernist claims.
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @EyeOnThePitch
Yes, that claim is an example of what I call "Buddhist exceptionalism" -- also that Buddhism relies on reason, not scripture; or that Buddhism emphasizes causality (in the scientific sense of the term)
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @evantthompson
I'd imagine that lurking over, above, and all around this is the supposed personality of the Buddha himself: calm, serene, non-dogmatic, above the fray, dispassionate, moderate etc (almost starts to sound like a scientist's imagined moral and intellectual qualities.)
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @EyeOnThePitch
Yes! From my book: "This Buddha - who manages to be the founder of a 'world religion,' while also being 'spiritual but not religious,' a heroic iconoclast, a mind scientist, a free thinker, and a rational empiricist philosopher--was forged 'in a European philological workshop'"
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
-
-
Replying to @evantthompson
Evan, on a peripheral topic: have you read Robert Morrison and Antoine Panaioti's books on Nietzsche and Buddhism? Quite interesting works.
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
Not yet. They're in my reading pile.
-
-
Replying to @evantthompson
I think I might have asked you this before - apologies!
0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.