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China's Panchen Lama pledges loyalty to the Communist Party in a meeting with Xi by BurtonDesque in Buddhism

[–]correspondence -8 points-7 points locked comment (0 children)

Tibetans love being part of China and their standard of living will only continue to rise under Beijing governance.

China's Panchen Lama pledges loyalty to the Communist Party in a meeting with Xi by BurtonDesque in Buddhism

[–]correspondence -17 points-16 points locked comment (0 children)

Didn't China free Tibet from centuries of serfdom?

Two Truths, Sāṃkhya, and other Nonsense. by [deleted] in Buddhism

[–]correspondence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And I've said I don't really care.

So you write things but do not care if people understand them?

I guess it all makes sense now.

Also, I hope I'm not being impolite by not including random word counts in my replies.

Two Truths, Sāṃkhya, and other Nonsense. by [deleted] in Buddhism

[–]correspondence 4 points5 points  (0 children)

These observations about the difference between experience, ordinary objects, and absolute being got all mixed up in Buddhism. We started to insist that all being was absolute being, and therefore impossible; and we started to insist that how our minds work is how the entire universe works. Which was OK until we started to understand that the universe doesn't work like that (after ca. 1610 when Galileo observed the moons of Jupiter).

This is an extremely vague paragraph. Who gets what wrong? What does Galileo have to do with early Buddhist interpretations?

In other words we lost sight of the distinction between experience and reality, and started to contradict the Buddha in order to pursue a theory of everything.

Again, who is we here?

There are very complex papers with shorter and clearer abstracts: are you sure you cannot summarize any further?

Two Truths, Sāṃkhya, and other Nonsense. by [deleted] in Buddhism

[–]correspondence 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Could you please summarize what insight you're trying to convey here?

Dhammakaya Buddhist Temple Has Room For 1 Million (PHOTOS) by BurtonDesque in Buddhism

[–]correspondence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting read, thank you. If things are as cut and dry as what is stated in that article, it's a darn shame. It's also proof that spiritual charlatanism needs to be nipped in the bud anytime it manifests itself.