tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post2556461890461332652..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: The view from the prison cellRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-48846225389401952832019-04-14T09:52:13.062-04:002019-04-14T09:52:13.062-04:00I was thoroughly confused at the Tokyo National Mu...I was thoroughly confused at the Tokyo National Museum today, because it had a section on Buddhism, and it talked about a Buddhist heaven, a Buddhist hell, and a bunch of gods taken from Hinduism (that part I kind of knew), and I had read about Buddhism. But it probably wasn't Mahayana Buddhism. Especially confusing was the point of Buddhism 1.0 is to cease to be, yet the first Buddha and other Buddhas are basically gods, yet if they had reached enlightenment, shouldn't they have ceased to be? I really wonder what a practicing Buddhist would say about newer Buddhisms retconning Buddhism basically.TheFlyingCouchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03529770322240929051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-42029542786500092162018-10-15T17:44:20.965-04:002018-10-15T17:44:20.965-04:00*the original*the originalEpistle of Dudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07779184015407034200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-147469827217214452018-10-15T17:43:53.077-04:002018-10-15T17:43:53.077-04:00My understanding is that's true of Theravada B...My understanding is that's true of Theravada Buddhism which is original and quite arguably the truest form of Buddhism. Mahayana Buddhism is the other main and more popular form of Buddhism, a form of Buddhism where buddhas are worshiped and revered like gods, but I suspect Mahayana largely developed because people couldn't cope with Buddhism in its truest form. It was too bleak for the human soul to come to grips with. People needed something more, something transcendent, something to worship.Epistle of Dudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07779184015407034200noreply@blogger.com