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Posted by Dave on July 13, 2005 at 20:06:51:

In Reply to: correction posted by cav on July 13, 2005 at 03:32:20:

I love Buddhism, particularly the form it has taken in the West through the process of inculturation. Stephen Batchelor's is very compelling.

I have to wonder whether the tendency of Japanese Buddhists to deify the Buddha is a holdover from Shinto. Likewise, the Mahayana tradition of Buddhism, which holds to the Bodhisattva ideal (a surrogate for God), developed in Northern India long after the Buddha himself--who refused to speculate about the nature of the Divine--had died. But that's hardly surprising, since India has always been among the most religious places on the planet.

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: I love Buddhism, particularly the form it has taken in the West through the process of inculturation. Stephen Batchelor's <a href=http://www.stephenbatchelor.org/msthesiscover.htm> <a/"agnostic" form> is very compelling. : I have to wonder whether the tendency of Japanese Buddhists to deify the Buddha is a holdover from Shinto. Likewise, the Mahayana tradition of Buddhism, which holds to the Bodhisattva ideal (a surrogate for God), developed in Northern India long after the Buddha himself--who refused to speculate about the nature of the Divine--had died. But that's hardly surprising, since India has always been among the most religious places on the planet.

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