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

[Mike Austin]

In message <43DE1797.7070902 at xs4all.nl>, Erik Hoogcarspel 
<jehms at xs4all.nl> writes

>There has been some discussion in Buddhist circles as well (I'm sorry I 
>cannot produce references at the moment), because the 
>rebirth-consciousness looks very much like the aatman of non-buddhist 
>schools. It's clear (to me anyway) that the only reason for assuming a 
>rebirth-consciousness is to save the theory of rebirth and this is a 
>very weak basis for existence.

If it looks like dependent origination, smells like dependent 
origination and tastes like dependent origination, then it is a 
permanent entity?

-- 
Metta
Mike Austin