[Buddha-l] Fsat Mnifdlunses?

[Richard Hayes]

On Aug 13, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Dan Lusthaus wrote:

> Rather, I was suggesting that *mis-labeling*
> Yogacara or Madhyamaka with those terms is malicious or pernicious.

Again, I would need to see what harm was done by those labels, and I'd  
need to see evidence that there was intent to harm.
>
> But let's not get caught up arguing about how to label mis-labelers.  
> More
> useful would be to determine what such schools actually promoted,  
> rather
> than how effectively one can squeeze them into clothes that don't fit
> properly.

Talking about schools seems unpromising. Talking about particular  
texts seems a better use of time. But we both know that it is  
fiendishly difficult to get even a single text more or less right.  
Given how difficult it is to get a handle on most Indian Buddhists, I  
see no alternative to being quite tolerant of those who arrive at  
different interpretations than one's own.