"When Buddhist modernists say that Buddhism isn’t a religion and try to use science to justify Buddhism, that’s an instance of misunderstanding what religion is and what science is." @evantthompsonhttps://buff.ly/38Xyr2o
Also, the Buddha insisted on both anatman and karma. Karma isn’t compatible with science. If we drop karma and just have anatman, that’s much closer to materialism than Buddhism [3]
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So your statement is like saying that when scientists say the universe is law-governed and intelligible in the language of mathematics, isn’t it OK to say this is compatible with the Christian vision of the cosmos? Yes, but that’s to overlook the other incompatibilities [4]
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I take your points. I think that wherever Buddhism has taken root in a new culture it has always tried to re-interpret and re-express it’s teaching in terms of the native discourses and has at times erred on the side of distorting it’s teachings to please the host culture.
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This is what happened at first with Buddhism and Daoism in China.
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But a creative synthesis eventually developed.
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