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What about pratyekabuddhas? And why would one expect The Buddha to have an answer other than The Buddha? Sincerely, a stream-enterer.
by eurasiantiger 5y ago
What about pratyekabuddhas? And why would one expect The Buddha to have an answer other than The Buddha?
Sincerely, a stream-enterer.
- denton-scratch 5y agoI was told that pratyekabuddhas are rather odd, and very rare.
- eurasiantiger 5y agoRarity is a matter of perception — at the time of the Teaching, the population of the world was a hundred times smaller. Oddity can be attested to, but what was once a rarity is now a minority statistic. As much as the population has multiplied, the number of pratyekabuddhas must have risen in tandem: to suggest otherwise would be to assign pratyekabuddhahood to external entities or mechanisms as something bestowed upon someone, but as it is, pratyekabuddhas arise independently — were that not the case, would they still be pratyekabuddhas?