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Buddhist karma and karmic reincarnation are feared to potentially lead to fatalism and victim blaming. Paul Edwards says that karma does not provide a guide to action. Whitley Kaufman, in his 2014 book, cross-examines that there is a taut relationship between karma and free will and that if karma existed, then evil would not exist because all victims of evil just get "deserved". [1]
the opposite response, which sees most or all traditional Buddhist practices as unsuitable for the current age of decline. This approach often entails a kind of Buddhist "dispensationalism" which argues that since we find ourselves is an unprecedented age, one should focus on special practices which are specifically useful for this time. This ...
Śāsana (Sanskrit: शासन, śāsana; Pali: sāsana) is a Buddhist term for the distribution time or availability of the teachings of a Buddha.The currently available philosophy and practice are dated back to Siddhartha Gautama and are only available for a limited time span. [1]
The Bulssi Japbyeon, also known in English as An Array of Critiques of Buddhism, is a 1398 Korean Neo-Confucian polemical critique of Buddhism by Chŏng To-jŏn. [1] In this work he carried out his most comprehensive refutation of Buddhism, singling out Buddhist doctrines and practices for detailed criticism.
In Why Buddhism is True, Wright advocates a secular, Westernized form of Buddhism focusing on the practice of mindfulness meditation and stripped of supernatural beliefs such as reincarnation. [2] He further argues that more widespread practice of meditation could lead to a more reflective and empathetic population and reduce political ...
The Sanskrit word acintya means "incomprehensible, surpassing thought, unthinkable, beyond thought." [web 1] In Indian philosophy, acinteyya is [T]hat which is to be unavoidably accepted for explaining facts, but which cannot stand the scrutiny of logic.
Cognitive Obstructions (Jñeyāvaraṇa): These stem from misconceptions about reality, such as reifying imaginary phenomena, and result in pride, wrong views, and discrimination. Only advanced bodhisattvas can overcome these obstacles, attaining complete understanding of emptiness ( śūnyatā ) and compassion ( karuṇā ) while accumulating ...
Kathāvatthu (Vietnamese: Bộ Ngữ Tông (Biện Giải); abbreviated Kv, Kvu; transl. "Points of Controversy") is a Buddhist scripture, one of the seven books in the Theravada Abhidhamma Pitaka.