Is it a death cult?

They're called hand mudras (forms) and indicate some message. I think those ones mean truth has been attained and truth is being taught.

How can it be a death cult if death isn't real?

mindfulnessbell.org/archive/2014/03/dharma-talk-no-birth-no-death-only-transformation-2

>Please come fuck my wife impregnate her

>Something tells me Buddha wouldn't have wanted people to do stuff like this, though.
The fundamentalist fallacy: The belief that because something is older in a religion, it is more "legitimate."

This is especially pernicious when applied to Buddhism, which teaches "84,000 dharma doors," "the doctrine of expedient means," and "many roads, one mountain." In other words, Buddhism is expected to change and shift to suit different times, different places, and different individual capacities and proclivities.

True, but there are core doctrines universal to all buddhists: the 4 noble truths, the 3 seals/3 marks of existence, the 3 jewels. Any practice that goes against these would not be buddhism.

but why did the Buddha deny that his philosophy teaches annihilationism? Doesn't the end of the cycle necessarily lead to non-existence?

No
You just ascend to a higher plane
Which unfortunately you would not receive until atleast 6 cycles user

" In Chinese Buddhism, for example, self-immolation has a long and well-documented history. From written records, we know of several hundred Chinese Buddhist monks, nuns, and laypeople who offered up their bodies for a variety of reasons—though not usually in protest against the state—from the late 4th century to the present. The majority burned themselves to death, often in staged public spectacles. (Scholars use the term auto-cremation for this rather than the more common self-immolation, which means “self-sacrifice.”) The numerous accounts and discussions of self-immolation in Chinese records make it clear that many Buddhist authors did not condemn it as an aberrant or deviant practice but understood it as a bodily path to awakening. For Chinese Buddhists, in fact, auto-cremation belonged to a set of practices collectively known as “abandoning the body.” Besides burning themselves to death, such practitioners also let insects feed on their bodies, sliced off their own flesh, burned off fingers or arms, or burned incense on the skin. Others starved, stabbed, or drowned themselves, leapt from cliffs or trees, fed themselves to wild animals (usually tigers), or mummified themselves."

tricycle.org/magazine/burning-buddha/

guess the name of this death cult

hint
sahih al bukhari 6922=
Narrated `Ikrima:
Some Zanadiqa (atheists) were brought to `Ali and he burnt them. The news of this event, reached Ibn `Abbas who said, "If I had been in his place, I would not have burnt them, as Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) forbade it, saying, 'Do not punish anybody with Allah's punishment (fire).' I would have killed them according to the statement of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), 'Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.'"

Objectively yes, but subjectively they deny the very concept of death so it doesn't have the character of a typical death cult, ie, it is not often aggressive or bellicose and it does not build great monuments and tombs to the blessed dead.

So is christianity

>dude just like don't do anything because life sucks, just ask the father and you'll have a better life after dying

Han Yu was right, Buddhism is nothing but a death cult that needs hard working people to support their degenerate lifestyle.
Wuzong of Tang did everything right trying to get rid of the cancer that is Buddhism.

>You just ascend to a higher plane

"nirvana" - to snuff out, like a candle

>peasants

Buddha was a KHANG

I see we truly live in an age of enlightenment.

An over simplification of the buddhist understanding of it.

The soul is impermanent to begin with, and the individual is illusionary. what you are escaping isn't existence but the endless cycle of suffering and death, "you" still exist as much as you ever did, that is not at all,

>that is, not at all

You don't understand emptiness if you think that's what it means

funny how westerners always seem to know what buddha would and wouldnt have wanted

>MUH WESTERNERS "CAN'T TOUCH BUDDHISM"

Pretty sure that part about "all sentient beings" includes westerners, son.

>muh curturar appropriation
Kys gook

funny how 4chooners always know who is from where and and are so certain that race/culture/nationality determines what you are and aren't allowed to know or discuss.

"It was a long journey — especially for someone who had to walk the entire way. After about thirty days, Huineng finally reached his destination. He quickly located the Dongchan Temple, and presented himself before the Master.

The Fifth Patriarch was plainspoken and straightforward. He wasted no time speaking to Huineng directly: “Where are you from? What are you looking for here?”

Huineng replied: “Master, I am a commoner from the Lingnan province. I have come a long way to pay my respects to you. I seek nothing other than to become a Buddha.”

The Fifth Patriarch regarded this young man and used a scolding voice: “You are a commoner from the south, and also a barbarian. How can a barbarian hope to become a Buddha?”

Huineng was unruffled as he responded: “Although people are differentiated in terms of north and south, in Buddha nature there is no north or south. The body of the barbarian may be different from that of the monk, but what difference is there in terms of Buddha nature?”

This response impressed the Fifth Patriarch."

Read the part in the Platform Sutra where

A death cult with reincarnation seems to be counterproductive

>Le "this life is bad, everyone is a sinner, I can't wait to die (albeit naturally!) so I can go to heaven" Christfaggots.
>Le "this life is bad, everyone is a sinner, I can't wait to die (albeit naturally or in righteous battle that I started) so I can go to heaven" Muslims
>"Is it a death cult?"

the goal of buddhism is to never reincarnate again

No it's to be happy

Ur stupid