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Vimalajāti Veteran
About
- Username
- Vimalajāti
- Location
- Whitby, Ontario
- Joined
- Visits
- 1,615
- Last Active
- Roles
- Member
- Points
- 568
- Location
- Whitby, Ontario
- Languages Spoken
- French, English, Chinese, very bad Japanese
- Affiliation
- Mahayana
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Re: Buddhist atheism
(Quote) Certainly, not necessarily. When I referred to these kinds of Buddhisms "deifying the perceiver" that is my own language that I am putting on them. Unless we are talking about tantr… (View Post)
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Re: Buddhist atheism
(Quote) Many who say that all is mind come from the cittamātratā (consciousness-alone) schools of Buddhism. They say that consciousness is twofold: we have 1) discursive consciousness, and 2) conscio… (View Post)1 -
Re: Buddhist atheism
Many contemporary Hindus today consider in-the-present creation via the trimurti. Brahmā creates, Viṣṇu upholds, Śiva destroys. The "upholding" is what is relevant here. Viṣṇu's name means … (View Post)1 -
Re: Buddhist atheism
(Quote) In the view of god's creation, there need not be a beginning ex nihilo, many of the Śaivists and Viṣṇaivists that Buddhists of the past debated with, all of them ardent theists and proponents… (View Post)
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Re: Buddhist atheism
The view that one sentient being dreams up, thinks up, or creates, the world, is 有神論的決定論, महेश्वरस्यनिर्माणदृष्टि, maheśvarasyanirmāṇadṛṣṭi, or god's-creation-view. Ironically, though, the abo… (View Post)
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