Yeah, ok, I quibble over terms a bit, but it does make things clearer in the long run to get it out of the way. We're trying to answer the question "what kind of people should we try to be?"
Instead of trying to make a normative/descriptive category of "actual Buddhism" it might be better to just say which Buddhism you are talking about (Mahayana, Pure Land, "my interpretation of X tradition" etc). Buddhism is a very, very broad tradition.
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In this case I'm talking of my experience with my tradition (vaguely Japanese zen), my interpretation of Pali scripture, and assorted conversations and readings across traditions that are well-represented in the English language – so big emphasis on zen, vipassana, and Tibetan.
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I know a lot less about Pure Land and folk Buddhism in Asia, which seem a lot more like folk Christianity in America by comparison to the "full fledged" monastic, renunciatory, tantric, etc. traditions.
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