Comment on Pointless existence

• frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s way more complicated than that. Can depend on the sect, or even the individual. There’s a lot of Buddhist stereotypes that persist from how westerners first reported back about Buddhists to other westerners.

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  • novibe@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I know, but still, the oldest schools of Buddhism don’t have anything that would equate to what we in the west consider a god, or gods.

    I know that in east asia, south-east Asia etc., there are schools of Buddhism that do have gods.

    But Buddhism being in many ways a rejection of brahamical religion in north india/nepal, also rejected the idea of gods when it first started to develop. I think that’s pretty uncontroversial no?

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• sunbather@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  they dont believe in capital g God but buddhism has plenty of gods for sure

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  • novibe@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Depends on the school of Buddhism sure. That’s true. Some don’t have anything resembling what we call God or even gods tho.

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