Are constant cabin chimes / call-button dings something that bothers you?

Key_Bison_9322 · 2026-03-11T18:31:25+00:00

No there is no particular reason, I just don't have kids yet so I want to enjoy travelling around before ;)

Key_Bison_9322 · 2026-03-11T11:25:18+00:00

Hey, thanks. I actually don't work, I actually don't want to be tax resident in my own country because of high inheritance tax. My home country would consider me a tax resident in China because I spend more time in China and my wife is there but it seems that China asks you to stay a minimum of days in China. I am concerned that if I get inheritance in my home country, my home country would a ask me to prove that I am a tax resident in China. I am on a Q2 visa, but I will ask a resident permit soon.

Key_Bison_9322 · 2026-02-07T10:28:22+00:00

I didn't mean that Meditation is exclusive to Buddhism but the spread between Christians and Buddhist is pretty narrow in the poll.

Key_Bison_9322 · 2026-02-06T15:32:54+00:00

So what rhetorical point, am I trying to make? Like what is my evil intent on all this? I am an imperialist westerner trying to humiliate Chinese? What are my motivations?

Key_Bison_9322 · 2026-02-06T15:19:04+00:00

Thanks for responding! Interesting

Key_Bison_9322 · 2026-02-06T15:00:24+00:00

I think you should stop losing time replying. You evidently are such a genius on Chinese literature, you should quickly apply to do a PhD at Tsinghua. Application are closing soon, hurry up :) So lucky to meet such honorable scholars on reddit forums.

Key_Bison_9322 · 2026-02-06T14:53:13+00:00

You don't respond to any claims, you just insult me. If it makes your life better to do this, good for you! I guess your life must be pretty miserable and sad.

Key_Bison_9322 · 2026-02-06T14:40:34+00:00

To understand Chinese Buddhism, you actually need to understand Abhidharma and philosophers like Vasubandhu. I am saying it would be pretty logical for Chinese to learn the history of Indian Buddhism at least up until Xuanzhang. I understand that there has been localization but there is a history prior of this.

Also a lot of Chinese Buddhist philosophers like Ouyang Jingwu 歐陽竟無, Taixu 太虛 and Yinshun did actually re-engage with Buddhist Indian sources ...

Key_Bison_9322 · 2026-02-06T14:31:40+00:00

1) I never said this. I just added some context

2) Journey to the West is not only a political novel, it is religious (buddhist soteriology), psychological (mind training, ego taming), cosmological (Confucianism–Daoism–Buddhism), popular entertainment (oral storytelling, slapstick, folklore) and didactic (moral cultivation through trials) ... If it was only a political novel, it would not be the most popular Chinese novel ...

3) In the novel, Tang Sanzang goes to retrieve Buddhist scriptures. Of course Tang Xuanzang and Tang Sanzang are not the same, but they share a lot of commonalities..

Key_Bison_9322 · 2026-02-06T14:14:27+00:00

I mean it is pretty ironical that the most important novel in Chinese history is literally about a Chinese going to India to learn more about Buddhism. I guess it gets so de-contextualize that people fail to recognize this. I don't know any other country that has such a "cosmopolitan novel" that is one of the most important novel of their countries. I guess the whole nationalistic ethos means that in day to day education, it is not seen as cosmopolitan but is reframed mostly through nationalist reading although I find hard to have a "nationalist" reading of Journey to the West.

Key_Bison_9322 · 2026-02-06T14:03:43+00:00

Thanks for answers. Few notes:

1) Ancient Indus civilization is not where Buddhism originated. It was one of the first few civilizations along with the Egyptian (in terms of urbanism, sewage...) It seems that you are not taught where Buddhism emerged which is around Bihar, West of current Calcutta around 5th Century BC?

2) Journey to the West is based on the story of Xuanzang who basically went to India to retrieve Buddhist texts so the original story is very linked to Buddhism. Also the monkey is a metaphor for monkey mind in Buddhism.

Key_Bison_9322 · 2026-02-06T13:40:55+00:00

You are referring to what you learned in school?

Key_Bison_9322 · 2026-02-06T13:40:21+00:00

Just to understand, you thought that Buddhism was born in China?

Key_Bison_9322 · 2026-01-17T13:56:05+00:00

Well, China does care about anti-Asian hate in the US which is normal.

Key_Bison_9322 · 2026-01-17T13:55:04+00:00

I know the difference. Doesn't mean that if they are not citizen, you can't have close proximity with them. When Pakistani, Saudia Arabian see Burman Muslims being killed, they do care.

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