[Buddha-l] Enlightenment vs The Enlightenment

Jayarava jayarava at yahoo.com
Sat Aug 8 07:47:37 MDT 2009


--- On Fri, 7/8/09, jkirk <jkirk at spro.net> wrote:

> One can still attack the mumbo jumbo of politicians, deconstructionists 
> and "spirituals" of various sorts (always of course remembering to 
> relate it to the main topic of the list), but even doing that has
> provoked in the past some sharp protest. 

The list produces sharp protest even without provocation! 

I think the reason that Buddhists and scholars alike react against heterodoxy can, extending Schopen's argument about the monastics, be boiled down to *control of resources*.

Regards
Jayarava





      



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