05-13-2010, 03:42 AM
[quote name='G.Subramaniam' date='12 May 2010 - 09:40 AM' timestamp='1273636949' post='106336']
I remember reading that in the later years, a lot of left-hand practises had happened in buddhist monasteries and lots of sex scandals involving buddhist monks and buddhist nuns
Thats why I hate these swaminis who go celibate instead of breeding 5
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Irrelevant,
None of above is a reason for shunning buddhism.
Other reasons are in play:
1-some buddhists see hinduism as inferior from doctrinal point of view,or because they read some "History of religions" books were hindus are presented as destroyers of buddhists in India.
2-other buddhists feel their national identity threatened by hindus ,especially in south-east Asia
3-other are simply feeling shame to be put on the same level whit hindus,because western-"modernism" ideology see hindus as primitive idolaters living in poverty,and the buddhists dont want to appear as non-fashionable,not being whit "the wave" .
I remember reading that in the later years, a lot of left-hand practises had happened in buddhist monasteries and lots of sex scandals involving buddhist monks and buddhist nuns
Thats why I hate these swaminis who go celibate instead of breeding 5
[/quote]
Irrelevant,
None of above is a reason for shunning buddhism.
Other reasons are in play:
1-some buddhists see hinduism as inferior from doctrinal point of view,or because they read some "History of religions" books were hindus are presented as destroyers of buddhists in India.
2-other buddhists feel their national identity threatened by hindus ,especially in south-east Asia
3-other are simply feeling shame to be put on the same level whit hindus,because western-"modernism" ideology see hindus as primitive idolaters living in poverty,and the buddhists dont want to appear as non-fashionable,not being whit "the wave" .