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What does /lit/ think of the Medicine Buddha Sutra?

>> No.19088538

>>19088533
Mahayana Buddhism = Hinduism Lite

>> No.19088548

>>19088538
And that’s a good thing

>> No.19088694

>>19088538
Post-Buddhist Hinduism is just crypto-buddhism
>>19088548
Based.

>> No.19089511

>>19088533
Which sutras should I read if I'm interested in Buddhist phenomenology and metaphysics but not in the ritualism and faith based claims?

>> No.19089529

>>19089511
the Gay Faggot Sutra

>> No.19089548

>>19089529
Easy on the Seethe Sutra

>> No.19089550

>>19089511
If you’re interested in Buddhist phenomenology and metaphysics, you shouldn’t read any sutras, you should read the works of Buddhist philosophers like Nagarjuna.

>> No.19089555

>>19089548
The Nigger Sutra

>> No.19089557

>>19089550
Where do I start? I've seen that start with the jeets chart thrown around but there seem to be a lot of books on Nagarjuna and madhyamaka, mind only and other things.

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>>19088538
hinduism = mahayana + brahman

>> No.19089583

>>19089557
If you’re not already acquainted with basic Buddhist philosophy, read In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon. If you’re further interested in Buddhist, continue on with Nagarjuna’s Seventy Stanzas and Middle Way.

>> No.19089587

>>19089583
I've read In the Buddha's Words and the Heart sutra. I'll check out the seventy stanzas, thanks

>> No.19090150

>>19088533
Good when you have aspirin on hand.
Looking at how another high-ranking Tibetan lama sends for treatment, say, to a private clinic in Germany (donations were not in vain), you learn the power of traditional Tibetan medicine.

>> No.19090295

>>19089587
THE Nagarjuna text is the Fundamental Verses of the Middle Way. He did a bunch of other stuff, but that's the important part. The Siderits translation is a common one, and is on libgen.

Also, as an aside, the Diamond Sutra is rather interesting once you get past the beginning (which is a slightly longer-form retelling of the Heart Sutra's contents).

>> No.19090370

>>19089557
>Where do I start?

Moralizing Proselytism for Dummies
The Absence of Soul: Reflections on Being an NPC
The Isvara Delusion: Why Religion Ruins Everything
A Sourcebook of Sophistic Relativism
The Extinction of Consciousness is not Nihilism Because it Never Existed to Begin With: Parsing Mahayana Dialectics