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Vimalajāti Veteran
About
- Username
- Vimalajāti
- Location
- Whitby, Ontario
- Joined
- Visits
- 1,612
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- Roles
- Member
- Points
- 568
- Location
- Whitby, Ontario
- Languages Spoken
- French, English, Chinese, very bad Japanese
- Affiliation
- Mahayana
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Re: Mahayana vs Theravada Buddhism
IMO, if we don't take the accounts in records like the Pāli texts (etc.) of numbers like "500 Arhats" as only pseudo-historical, the yes, the Buddhadharma has severely declined. There are l… (View Post)
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Re: Mahayana vs Theravada Buddhism
(Quote) I'm not going to contradict this per se, after all it is your opinion and you've stated your opinion accurately, but I would like to offer what I believe to be some nuance with regards to the… (View Post)
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Re: Rules to becoming a Bodhisattva?
(Quote) I don't want to step on ShanJieshi2's digital toes, but this AFAIK is a standard elaboration of the bodhisattvaśīla precepts. You can find a version of them in the Brahmajāla vaipulya and als… (View Post)
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Re: From Buddhism to belief in God?
Not all Buddhism is "the Dharma." It's better someone be Christian than be a Buddhist bereft of the Dharma. Buddhism bereft of the Dharma is a lonely hopeless system. I agree with the OP th… (View Post)
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Re: How would you approach this? Course content and lgbt narrative
There is certainly a weird leftist bias in the far-left, and this bias is such that it considers anyone who is part of a group of people who are even vaguely disadvantaged socially as "saints.&q… (View Post)
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