What is the holy text of buddism?

What is the holy text of buddism?

The Upanishads

There isn't one, at least not in the abrahamic-centric lens you're looking at things through

The book of five rings if you're cool

Is that an alex jahans pepe?

I believe so. He's going insane because /pol/acks keep on trolling him.

Buddha does not teach a specific doctrine. The idea is that you can read anything, and analyze it for yourself, come to your own conclusions. If you disagree with Buddhism, it is okay, because the Buddha would hear your argument, rather than freak out over small details.

You could even be a practicing Buddhist and read the Torah, the Gospel, or the Quran. This is because you are allowed to read anything.

You're allowed to read anything in every religion. Except for Harry Potter for some evangelicals I guess

The difference is belief in them, and if these beliefs conflict with Buddhism

Buddha does not teach you to believe in anything. You could find your practical analysis to justify why you would be Christian and Buddhist and Buddha will not say to you "no, we don't believe that, no, you're wrong okay" Buddha would allow you to believe in God, even if it conflicted with his beliefs.

I'm sure Buddha (which one?) would be fine with it, but it's the very nature of believing in both teachings is often contradictory.

Any person is capable of merging two religious philosophies into one, the contradictions are minor, and Buddhism does not pin you down, and allows you to accept or reject.

What? Buddha did that a lot.

Have you actually read any of the stories about him? There are shitloads of times where he tells people they're wrong and shoves their faces in it. A few times he even went out of his way to *make* people think like he did. This was all post-enlightenment stuff, too.

You could exaggerate it "he rubbed it in peoples faces" but often times disciples asked him questions and he proved to them their thinking was at times, illogical, which is okay because we all make mistakes in mind every now and again.

Yeah

Come on he was already insane

This if the holy texts of the Vedantists(a school of hinduism) not of the Buddhists.

There are no fixed holy texts because the canon is different according to the denolminations.

The theravadins use the Tripitika, the mahayanists also use the Tripitika(in sanskrit) and add their own sutras, the Zen-Chan(a branch of mahayana buddhism) use the Diamond Sutra, and the well-know Lotus Sutra, there is also the Pure Land(another branch of the Mahayana school) who use Infinite Life Sutra, the Amitabha and the Amitayurdhyana Sutra.

True Buddhism is the acceptance of all to achieve mindlessness and thus peace.

There are many holy texts. But a universal one is the Tripitaka, relevant to most schools of Buddhism. Tripitaka contains 3 main books. The sayings of the Buddha(sutta), the psychology/metaphysics/philosophy of the Buddha(abhidhamma) and the rules of monkhood(vinaya).

Each schools of buddhism have little bit different version of the Tripitaka, but they should all be relatively same in content for 95% of the time.

Then there are Mahayana sutras that non-theravada schools use as reading materials. There are also commentaries on that. These are written by famous buddhists throughout history.

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The Canterbury Tales

Only God makes things holy. There is nothing holy in either Hinduism or Buddhism.

Fuck off role player

Nobody really believes in God

The Buddha himself warned against putting faith in texts and teachers, his message can be boiled down to "meditate, it's good for you".

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The Dhammapada
Surprised nobody said it, its pretty obvious answer.

holiness relates to all religions. satanist can be holy, cult leaders are holy, to be holy just means to relate to that religion in some strong matter.

He warned against blind faith in holy books/teachers. However he specifically said once you have enough trust in some teachings, and they are either tested/confirmed, further higher teachings require faith in the teachings/teachers. Pure skepticism is viewed as another hindrance along with pure faith.

I found that modern Buddhists that are involved in the West at least have a more open minded and critical approach to their texts similar to how textual critics look at the Bible, and they will openly admit the possibility of emendations having been made to the text with ulterior motives as well as the possibility of corruption of the teaching because of it and they don't treat it as entirely infallible.

t. larper