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by Macavity
Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:04 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Interdependence
Replies: 29
Views: 6761

Re: Interdependence

In Hua-Yen School there is the view that everything is a single nexus of simultaneously interdependent conditions. So, in a simple way to say, everything affects everything. What is the Theravadin view about it? Is just another way to express the paticcasamuppāda doctrine? I wouldn't say so. It is ...
by Macavity
Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:38 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: How are the views of Buddhadasa Bhikkhu regarded?
Replies: 349
Views: 79201

Re: How are the views of Buddhadasa Bhikkhu regarded?

Well there we go... that firmly places the onus on those who claimed Buddhadasa Bhikkhu denied any form of post-mortem continuance to find real evidence (i.e. not just out of context snippets) to back up their claims. Buddhadasa often claimed that the belief in rebirth is eternalism. For example, i...