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Madhyamaka forum please!

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It would be good to have the relevant threads together, could be a sub-forum of "The Way of the Bodhisattva". Even better would be to have a new area called "Nalanda University" which could have sub-forums for Madhyamaka, Pramana, Yogachara, Sanskrit and Tibetan translation issues, etc.
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Nice idea. :smile:
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Agree, that would be cool! I like the Nalanda idea especially.
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Likewise. :smile:
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Thanks for the suggestion. The creation of a Madhyamaka forum is currently being discussed by the team.

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Please see the announcement here http://dharmawheel.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5975#p68466" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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What a hoot!
Posts containing personal opinions and conjecture, points of view arrived at from meditative experiences, conversations with devas/gods or based solely on a teacher's saying are all regarded as off-topic
So opinions that are not personal, yet not based on a guru's teachings, yet again, are shallow, are going to produce some really nifty "in-depth discussions". :zzz:
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Perhaps it might be better to say:

"The focus of this (these) forum(s) is critical thought applied to philosophical texts from the scholastic Buddhist traditions in the spirit of the great monastic universities like Nalanda."
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Should noobs claim they are worthy of the Nalanda university?
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Question to Mods:

Why are threads that are not related to Nalanda being moved there?
eg. the thread on Nagarjuna works.

Madhyamaka does not equal Nalanda (or vice versa), by any standard.

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Huifeng wrote:Question to Mods:

Why are threads that are not related to Nalanda being moved there?
eg. the thread on Nagarjuna works.

Madhyamaka does not equal Nalanda (or vice versa), by any standard.

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the Nalanda forum is not about Nalanda per se, its just a fun way to create a space for more academic discussions of Buddhist philosophy and keep the threads together.
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This is (possibly) the teaching of Buddha.

"I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind."
- Descartes, 2nd Meditation 25
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Yes, that's the spirit of the thing. :lol:
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Then I think that by so naming it, it is already giving a preference and slant as to what constitutes "academic discussion".
If one actually tried this in academic Buddhist studies, it would simply not pass muster.
For example, does this somehow exclude the climate of discussion that occurred in Chang'an over the centuries? Or Nara?

Why not just call it what it is?

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Huifeng wrote:Then I think that by so naming it, it is already giving a preference and slant as to what constitutes "academic discussion".
If one actually tried this in academic Buddhist studies, it would simply not pass muster.
For example, does this somehow exclude the climate of discussion that occurred in Chang'an over the centuries? Or Nara?

Why not just call it what it is?
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I don't oppose.
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oh fer crissakes. Buddhism is originally an Indian phenomena, and Nalanda is simply the most famous center of Buddhist academic study from the "golden age" But if people's feelings are hurt and they have no sense of fun, then sure, change it to "non-sectarian politically correct Buddhist Academic Forum"
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This is (possibly) the teaching of Buddha.

"I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind."
- Descartes, 2nd Meditation 25
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Thanks for the contributions. The name has been changed to "Academic Discussion"

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