Finally, a goddamned academic! Fist pump to Robert Sharf.https://twitter.com/Sciamanoinglese/status/1145704889131003904 …
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I agree that it would be GREAT if contemporary Buddhists knew their history. To reiterate my point at
@Imperfectbuddha, for the non-buddhist analysis, that history only serves to provide evidence for both the general "syntax" of "Buddhism" and the varieties of x.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
I disagree with your "only." The history also provides evidence and materials for thinking about the problems with what you designate as "non-Buddhism," which, despite your assertions to the contrary, is arguably enmeshed in Buddhist modernism.
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non-buddhism is most definitely not “enmeshed in buddhist modernism”!I’d be curious to hear about the basis for your disagreement.
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1/7 A few thoughts in the following...
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Replying to @evantthompson @non_buddhism and
2/7 The way you single out Buddhism as a special object (despite via negation) looks like a Buddhist modernist move to me (it's still caught up in Buddhist exceptionalism)
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3/7 A "cultural/philosophical critique of religion" seems more straightforward and accomodating than "non-Buddhism"
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4/7 You say "x-Buddhism" is anything & everything under the label "Buddhist." How can you presume to know the scope of your (totalizing) term? How do you know "non-B" doesn't fall under it? What justifies your standpoint?
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How can anyone in any field theorize before knowing "the scope of their (totalizing) term?" We do our best. My theory of x-buddhism will hold, I believe, even for its not-yet manifested varieties. You do realize that non-buddhism is a theory of Buddhism, right?
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Yes, I understand that. I'm questioning the way the theory tries to rule out (a priori it seems) the relevance of Buddhist philosophy to its questions (my point is methodological)
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It doesn't rule them out; it incorporates them.
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