[Buddha-l] Re: Buddhist family life

[curt]

Richard Hayes wrote:
>
> Aside from a
> few Indian Buddhists in the fifth and sixth centuries, just about all
> Buddhist philosophy is anti-foundationalist; this is especially the case
> with Madhyamaka, but hardly less so of other schools. 
>   

And yet these supposedly antifoundationalist Buddhists persist in 
believing in ghosts, demons, nagas, hell realms, heaven realms, out of 
the body experiences, telepathy, astrology, oracular divination, Gods, 
Goddesses, past life memories, etc. Not to mention Right and Wrong. Just 
last week I attended the opening ceremony of a new Tendai Buddhist 
Temple in the Washington DC area. It was about as postmodernist as a 
Baptist prayer meeting.

I think the resemblance between postmodernism and "actual" Buddhism is 
more apparent than real.

- Curt

P.S. Madhyamaka philosophy, as everyone knows, originally comes from the 
Snake People who live below the earth.