[Buddha-l] Re: Where does authority for "true" Buddhism come from?

[Chris]

(Corrected for spelling!)

On 1/28/06, Chris <castanford at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 1/28/06, Benito Carral <bcarral at kungzhi.org> wrote:
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> >   I'm going to quote the Buddha:
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> Tell me, Benito, by what authority are you "going to quote the Buddha"?
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> Did Sidartha actually tell you in person what you are quoting? Did you
> hear those exact words straight from the Buddha's mouth - with your own
> ears? And were you able to construct an accurate transcript of what you
> thought you heard him say?  Or are you in fact not just repeating what
> someone else wrote about what *he* thought the Buddha might have said, and
> only done so some several hundred years after Sidartha died? (If in fact he
> ever lived.)
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> I really need to get a handle on your definition of 'evidence' in this
> rather protracted debate. Can you help me out here?
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