[Buddha-l] Enlightenment as dogma

[Bob Zeuschner]

I would have to ask, what do you mean by "enlightenment"?

I prefer the definition along the lines of "cessation of duhkha," and in 
that case, we ask, "what do you mean by duhkha?"
There are several forms of duhkha, as I recall.

I don't know how this sort of historical question could be settled, even 
if we agreed on definitions.

Bob

On 10/7/2010 12:17 PM, Stefan Detrez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a friend of mine asked me whether the Buddha's enlightenment should be seen
> as a Buddhist dogma. As I'm not a specialist in this area, or any other for
> that matter, I promised to ask for an academic opinion. Also, what 'proof',
> excepting the his own testimony, is there for Siddharta Gautama to have
> attained enlightenment.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stefan
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