The Sigalovada Sutta is a key text for "Buddhist ethics," so if it's actually brahmanical, some rethinking might be called for.
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brahmins basically pwned the sangha in the first 100 years after B's death. Basic Indian history fact on 8th grade tests
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Reason Buddhism died in India is mainly (R^2=0.6) that people couldn't tell it apart from brahmin priesthood
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Then American history is wrong. I've actually been to Bodhgaya temple. Has been run by hindu brahmin priests for 2000+ years
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Yes, that much I know… Although I would have guessed a few centuries less.
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Modulo a few destructions I suppose, by Islamic invaders etc. Haven't looked in detail.
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In some heterodox versions, the Buddha is an avatar in the dasavatara en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashavata
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Yup, made a joke about that in my novel:
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You should just hand off unfinished draft to some hollywood finisher type and be done with it :D
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