> Isn't it relatively likely that there are more people learning Buddhism orally now than there ever have been before? Well I suppose if you mean listening to

> Isn't it relatively likely that there are more people learning Buddhism orally now than there ever have been before? Well I suppose if you mean listening to an audio-book or even reading a book constitutes learning something orally, then you might have a point. When I say orally I mean passed down from generation to generation via spoken word. Buddhism originally had no scriptures and was passed down by word of mouth until everything was transcribed to texts.