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I was hoping the article would back up its claim based on what's actually in the content of Buddhism teaching. On the contrary, the entire article is based on
by pcurve 10y ago
I was hoping the article would back up its claim based on what's actually in the content of Buddhism teaching.
On the contrary, the entire article is based on various accounts of actions taken by people that happen to be Buddhist.
Some religion condones violence under certain conditions. This article doesn't mention that about Buddhism. Article title is click bait.
- jaldhar 10y agoI don't know enough about Buddhism to judge if the article is accurate but separating out teaching from people sounds rather "Protestant" to my ears. In Hinduism which I know more about we have the concept of karma. Karma is action. It can be ritual action. It can be war (As Arjuna is taught in the Gita) or it can be writing a comment on Hacker News. These actions have different goals but conceptually they are the same type. What we call Hinduism is the sum total of what "people that happen to be Hindu" do. I expect Buddhism is like this too.