Thoughts on Bhuddist sects?

Thoughts on Bhuddist sects?

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>tfw could've been buddhist

theravada is the best

Vajrayana is some crazy shit.

someone explain the basics for noobs

I find Tibetan buddhism really interesting and find myself researching it more than other sects

Theravada is Buddhism

theravada > ther est

*Theravada is original Buddhism

It is not, you fucking brainlet. There were multiple schools of Buddhism before Theravada and Mahayana had already spread throughout Asia before it. Theravada developed in Sri Lanka and replaced the Mahayana school in SEA.

Vajryana - best

Many French people convert to Buddhism and Hinduism to get a bit of some spirituality when they need one, because Christianism is shit and dangerous.

Same shit happens in Asia but in reverse. Many Asians convert to Christianity because they want to give their life meaning. They think Buddhism is retarded and boring.

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fuck buddism
buddha was a faggot

Theraveda is like orthodox
Mahayana is like protestant
Vajrayana is literally voodoo shit

I like Theravada because they have a nice canon

Could've been more progressive if we were Buddhists than Cucktholics.

What's with the vajrayana part in the caucasus?

>The Kalmyks, who form the majority of the republic and for whom the region is named, descend from the Oirat Mongols that migrated from Dzungaria in 1607 and established the Kalmyk Khanate (1630–1724) before they were eventually incorporated into the Russian Empire in the context of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus.
pretty neat stuff

Mahayana is the older one and Theravada is more like the Protestant one because it was made to “fix” the Mahayana mistakes

Greater Mongolia when?

MOATENGE MATANGA MURUMURUMMUNUMDAAAA MOATENGE MUYDESUUUU BURUMUNDUMUNDUMDAYIIII MOATENGE MUYDESUUU HUSTOPEČE BURUDAI

this

Elder Monks > Greater Vehicle >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Diamond Vehicle

>dangerous
no

Is SGI considered Mahayana?

t. Souka Gakkai in

Theravad is based on tge older pali scriptures
Mahayana is like imbued with lots of hinduism, later scriptures and celestial bs.

To the extent that actual shit the actual buddha actuallty said is of less importance than made up shit a made up buddha said in a scripture a monk living 500+ years later in china made up

In mahayana

It's not actually

A Buddhist got me pregnant

My cousins :)

Its not because the earlier schools died out but it is more heterodox as it adheres to a version of the pali canon and has relatively less impact from hinduism

Compare mahayana and vajrayana where om prefixed mantras to celestial beings are common

They're Mongols living in Europe since a few hundred years ago.

Unlike Hungarians and shit, they didn't get assimilated

Wikipedia says yes.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soka_Gakkai
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichiren_Shōshū
>Nichiren Shōshū is a school rooted in Mahayana Buddhism.[citation needed]

Kalmykia sounds like a fake anime country name.

Nearly all Japanese Buddhist sects are descended from Mahayana

Most of east asias (including vietnam afaik) buddhism is mahayana

Tibet nepal(mixed with hinduism) and mongolia are vvajrayana

Sri lanka and thailand (was once mahayana), cambo, laos, myanmar are all theravada (with varying degrees of ancient )lighter himdu influence)

Indonesia, afganistan and the silk road was mahayana with vajrayana pockets

India was mostly mahyana in the day but now has its own path whivh is a movement for untouchables - i think more in line with theravada might be wrong

Sorry the dalit buddhism is its pwn path with its own doctrine

Manichaeism is more interesting.

Theravada is 20% bullshit
Mahayana is 50% bullshit
Vajrayana is 100% bullshit

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The maldives were mahayana or vajrayana despite being nearer to theravada lanka

Just a mote on hindu influence:
In burma and sri lanka this amounts to not much more than reverence for a few hindu deities. There is also reference to hindu mythology for esp in the jataka tales.

In thailand hindu brahmin ritual is included in religion (very paradoxical to buddhism)

In cambodia and laos its pretty pure from this afaik. Might be wrong. They still like the ramayana though (as do many now muslim countries)

Mahayana and vajrayana were developed in india and took on a lot more hinduism. This involved taking on, adapting (eg krishna and the elephant god ganesh appear in japanese temples) and making up lots and lots of deities and realms; many of whom eclipse sakyamuni buddha (avalokitesvara who is pretty shaivite). Bigger incidence of hindu ritualism (fire worshipping monks in japan), hinduised mantras, less emphasis on the original pali canon that denounced this shit.

Theravada is purer by virtue of not being in the battleground of ideology.

Mahayana is developed as a consrquence of debate with hindu philosophers and tryimg to win indian political patronage. Both hinduism and mahayana buddhism ended up borrowing alot from each other in india in order to outdo each other

To the extent that in nepal the lines between them are pretty blurred