Timeline for What do different schools of Buddhism say about Mara
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| Sep 28, 2018 at 12:20 | comment | added | user14119 | @ChrisW - Thanks for the helpful comment. I probably share Dhammadhutu's view of Batchelor but feel B's comment about Mara being 'figurative' is correct. I did mention other schools but you might be right about the reference to Jesus. Happy to say I share the view you give in your comment below. | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 13:13 | comment | added | ChrisW♦ | I haven't voted at all yet, myself, fwiw; I've been waiting for an answer which talks about "all schools" or "different schools" and "what is mentioned" as requested by the OP. | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 13:10 | comment | added | ChrisW♦ | My guess is that the downvote was Dhammadhatu's, who (as he posted in a comment which he since deleted) disagrees with "Batchelor's ideas" for whatever reason I know not (I haven't read any of Batchelor's books). I think we all need to feel a little equanimity over the possibility that someone might downvote our answer for that kind of reason -- keep the answer as-is if you yourself think it may be useful. Another part of this answer which someone might have found "not useful" was introducing "Jesus" into an explanation of Buddhist doctrine, but (shrug). | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 12:18 | comment | added | user14119 | I don't mind the downvote but an explanation for it would be useful. At this time I see no problem with my answer. | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 8:23 | comment | added | ChrisW♦ | @Dhammadhatu I think of CrabBucket (associated with Triratna) as maybe "secular" himself ... and he associated Batchelor with secular Buddhism here and here. Definitionally, IMO this site allows people to "self-identify" (if they will) as being of one school of Buddhism or another if they want to (and generally allow any school to self-identify as "Buddhist"). | |
| Sep 25, 2018 at 13:27 | history | answered | user14119 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |