[Buddha-l] Monk/nun or lay person

[jkirk]

Does anyone know what Gombrich's objections were? I've not seen them~~~~~~~
Joanna K.
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>The issue has also been dealt with in terms of distinguishing
>Kammatic  and Nibbanic Buddhism (a distinction introduced by Melford
>Spiro).

Lance  Cousins wrote:

and famously discredited by Richard Gombrich in his review of the first 
edition of Spiro's book.

Stefan writes:

I'm not sure why Spiro was mistaken.There might not be such a distinction in 
practice (assuming the people's understanding has not evolved since the 
Buddha's time), yet as a working definition where kammatic buddhism is 
'silatic' and nibbanic buddhism is 'dhyanic', I think the Pali suttas allow 
for such a categorisation. Maybe I should have started out with 'silatic' 
and 'dhyanic' from the very beginning to make my point.


Stefan


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