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"Anyone who accepts these four seals, even independently of
Buddha’s teachings, even never having heard the name Shakyamuni Buddha, can be
considered to be on the same path as he." So, how much of the philosophical system of Buddhism can we reconstruct independently of Buddhist sources? And why 'reverse engineer' Buddhism? What's the purpose of attempting to derive a skeletal framework of Buddhist doctrine from reason and observation alone? More here |
