“In Buddhist exceptionalism, we see statements like, ‘Buddhism isn’t a faith-based religion.’ . . . [But] trust or confidence in the Buddha is a matter of faith.” ––@evantthompsonhttps://tricy.cl/2GwY8dW
Sure, but lots of religions mark that distinction. Nothing special about Buddhism there
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And there are many forms of Buddha-dharma. Pure Land can be deeply "faith-centric." But overall modernist use of "faith-based" in reference to fundamentalist Protestant *belief in doctrines* is I think reasonably distinguished from Buddhist saddhā as *trust in practice teachers.*
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Protestants generally think faith is based on a personal encounter with God, not on blind belief in doctrines. So, part of the issue here is emic (inside the religion) versus etic (looking at it from the outside) descriptions
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