[MD] Some historical perspective

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Ron:
I think the Chan or "zen" as they are known in Nippon,
were influenced by Greek philosophy. I believe, that
western philosphical questions did not hold as much
power simply because  Chinese is a pictographic
language and does not lend to the power of abstractions
that a semetic language structure seems to do.

"In the course of its history, Mahayana spread throughout East Asia. 
The main countries in which it is practiced today are China, Japan, 
Korea, and Vietnam and worldwide amongst Tibetan Buddhist 
practitioners as a result of the Himalayan diaspora following 
the Chinese invasion of Tibet. The main schools of Mahayana 
Buddhism today are Pure Land, Zen (Chan), Nichiren Buddhism, 
Shingon, Tibetan Buddhism and Tendai. The latter three schools 
have both Mahayana and Vajrayana practice traditions"
-wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahayana_Buddhism

but I was told that these are all "lies"
"LIES" I tells ya

fukn 3% more accurate than a regular encyclopedia wikepedia..
who do they think they are?







On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Ian Glendinning <ian.glendinning at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Bo said
> However, what SOM means by "intellect" is totally different by what
> the MOQ means.
>
> Ian says,
> Hopefully, otherwise we're all wasting our time.
>
> Good to see some debunking of the convenient, but simplistic,
> apocryphal, myth that the Greeks invented SOMism. Clearly the
> "take-up" of Plato and Aristotle led to SOMism being formalised and
> embedded in our received wisdom, but reality is more complicated than
> that. Such details matters to the narrative if not to "what MOQism
> is". Convenient myths have their uses.
>
> Regards
> Ian
>
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 3:47 PM,  <skutvik at online.no> wrote:
> > Hi Matt
> >
> > 24 Oct.
> >
> > Dr. Squonk I presume:
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