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tornwithvi  ·  3433 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ethics in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism

    Buddhism seeing enlightnment as instrumental to something in particular - transcendance - I think is an important difference.

Could you elucidate?





Chinabean  ·  3432 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Becoming enlightened frees you from the eternal cycle of suffering and rebirth on earth, essentially. It's where things start getting metaphysical.

But it's difficult to deal with Buddhism as a whole in the WP tradition, unless we directly and exclusively address the Sutras (which is not what I have been doing here), and even then, extracting arguments is not as straightforward as would be for a WP text.