/lit/ - Literature

>>19456624
>their sacred texts are extremely critical of polytheistic traditions
Gods are literally killed and reborn all the time in polytheistic traditions. The other anon is right and you are out of your depth. Nothing is as intolerant as mosaic religion. If Buddhists were demanded to pray for the Roman emperor, they would have. They certainly did in Japan and China.

>>18693750
I think it's time you returned to tradition my bipoc friend

>>18325568
Should have started with the greeks

Leave psychology to me

>>16789105
We are as far from Roman stoicism as anything else. There were Greek Buddhists at the same time there were Roman Stoics.

>>16400015
Based Indo-Greek kalachrakaposter

>>16150242
Read the Bodhicharyavatara. If you really like reading spend a year going through the Long and Middle Discourses of the Pali Canon. If you really like effortposting read the Mulamadhyamakakarika. If you really liked The Matrix, read the Mahayanasamgraha. Read The Making of Buddhist Modernism to understand where Western ideas about Buddhism are coming from and how they have been distorted.

>>15971849
This is the wrong question for a variety of reasons. I'll give you two. First, the Buddha taught multiple exoteric paths to nirvana and was deliberate in teaching differently to different audiences, due to his complete understanding of the conditioning and actions of all sentient beings. The different schools of thought are the necessary consequence of putting the Dharma to words. Second, we live in an age of unprecedented accessibility to texts, which will be lost on most people anyway. There is no need to confine yourself to a single historical tradition in Asia to the exclusion of all others. You should aim to be well read and study as much as possible, while at the same time avoiding the kind of hyperprotestant biblical supremacy that comes with Anglophone cultural conditioning. Once the river is crossed, one no longer needs to carry the raft.