/lit/ - Literature

>What are the most widespread/most severe misconceptions deracinated westerners have about buddhism?

That it's worth reading about, at all, ever. It's such a shitshow of a religion it's not even funny.
>every sect has their own texts and disagree with the texts of the other sects
>scholars disagree as to what the primary text actually says
>Practicing Buddhist monks are confined away to boring useless and dead traditions that help literally no one and changes nothing
>Because it's such an empty religion it pretty much just conforms to whatever dominant Asiatic culture it finds itself in

While devout Christians gave up everything and moved to Leper colonies to administer to the needs of the poor, Buddhists sit on the sidewalk like a bunch of faggots asking for some fucking rice. While devout Christians wrote symphonies and built churches and painted timeless art, Buddhists just sat there on the sidewalk doing fucking nothing.

It's a shit religion. There's no value in it.