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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@Meaningness brahmins basically pwned the sangha in the first 100 years after B's death. Basic Indian history fact on 8th grade tests2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@Meaningness Reason Buddhism died in India is mainly (R^2=0.6) that people couldn't tell it apart from brahmin priesthood1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Meaningness Then American history is wrong. I've actually been to Bodhgaya temple. Has been run by hindu brahmin priests for 2000+ years1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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@Meaningness Modulo a few destructions I suppose, by Islamic invaders etc. Haven't looked in detail.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness In some heterodox versions, the Buddha is an avatar in the dasavatara https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashavatara#Buddha …1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@vgr Yup, made a joke about that in my novel:http://buddhism-for-vampires.com/eating-an-entire-epistemologist …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness You should just hand off unfinished draft to some hollywood finisher type and be done with it :D1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@Meaningness that is not very detached of you
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