http://japanlifeandreligion.com/2008/12/10/buddhist-text-debate-then-and-now/ My life as a father, Buddhist and Japanophile. Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:53:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://japanlifeandreligion.com/2008/12/10/buddhist-text-debate-then-and-now/#comment-2363 warriortwo Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:14:52 +0000 http://nihonshukyo.wordpress.com/?p=2056#comment-2363 Aw geez, I'm such a newbie that I was going to ask you about this, too. Guess I won't now! :P Aw geez, I’m such a newbie that I was going to ask you about this, too. Guess I won’t now!

]]> http://japanlifeandreligion.com/2008/12/10/buddhist-text-debate-then-and-now/#comment-2364 erg Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:31:15 +0000 http://nihonshukyo.wordpress.com/?p=2056#comment-2364 I think its worth remembering Honen's first generation of students could not agree on what the heck he was teaching. And he taught less a shorter time, wasn't mythologized by his followers half as much, and had alot fewer of them. Within a hundred years Jesus's peeps were at figurative war, and 150 literal years after that the real thing.. To suggest anyone has any idea what is really or isn't really the buddha's words seems ridiculous. Not that that stops people, but.... I think its worth remembering Honen’s first generation of students could not agree on what the heck he was teaching. And he taught less a shorter time, wasn’t mythologized by his followers half as much, and had alot fewer of them. Within a hundred years Jesus’s peeps were at figurative war, and 150 literal years after that the real thing.. To suggest anyone has any idea what is really or isn’t really the buddha’s words seems ridiculous. Not that that stops people, but….

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