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The Buddhists Are Reverting to a Pre-Upanishadic View of the World

Buddhists are reverting to roughly speaking a pre-upanishadic view of the world in which they have an archaic old school way of thinking yes. Just as they do in certain other respects for example the Sangha is a community of monks but that word Sangha originally made a political assembly so it's the persistence of the assembly now no longer possible in the monarchy but in a new form. I would say something quite similar about the doctrine of Anata the doctrine of non-self however as I must emphasize that's impossible to prove that's the way history works interestingly both Parfit and Sirabji talk about Buddhism but also Rabji does is to argue that their arguments in

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