I agree but you find similar stuff in Theravada too.the above sounds frighteningly like superstition ridden lay Hinduism.
What matters is what it says in Sutras.
I agree but you find similar stuff in Theravada too.the above sounds frighteningly like superstition ridden lay Hinduism.
Both??? They were both Buddhism the last time I checked.
The conference was indoors, so I did not need a hat.Which hat did you wear at Vesak Day conference?
What magical mumbo jumbo stuff do you find in Theravada? Maybe a monk or two here and there may sell an amulet or trinket .. but organised, institutional mumbo jumbo .. do you find it in Theravada? Give few examples.
One cannot be both a Shia and Sunni, Catholic and Protestant .. division between Mahayana and Theravada are deeper than those two .. fine I get it you do not wish to clarify.