/bg/ Buddhism General: Mettablaster Edition

Hello Buddhabros, how's your practice going?

Following thread because 1. I would like to see more generals on /his/ and 2. I'm studying chinese history and it would be good to know more about buddhism. I also plan on studying India at some point. Never really occurred to me how important India was in the eastern world until I started studying it, I always thought of China as the Greece or Rome (that is, the starting point and mother of eastern civilization).

Anyway, I gotta ask. How do Buddhists feel about the sects? Have there been many notable wars between Buddhist sects like christianity? For example, you have the original buddhism from India, Chinese Buddhism, which eventually becomes Zen Buddhism in Japan.

>>2485120
Buddhists didn't have the sectarian warfare of Christians as far as I know, but they do have some longstanding and deep conflicts with other religions like Islam, especially in Southeast Asia.

bump for interest

Since this is the history board:
https://vividness.live/2011/06/24/protestant-buddhism/
https://vividness.live/2011/07/05/the-king-of-siam-invents-western-buddhism/
https://vividness.live/2011/07/07/theravada-reinvents-meditation/

>>2485120
>How do Buddhists feel about the sects?
Theravada: "Without Mahayana many people wouldn't be Buddhists, without Theravada no one would be Buddhist."
Mahayana: "Hinayana is the inferior way."

Why do you not listen to Watts


https://livestream.com/wisdompublications/Shamatha/videos/151361050

>>2485120
>generals
generals are really cancer, whatever is their topic

>>2485404
Only if they become about circlejerking and namefaggotry (which most do)

but conceptually they're good. I like knowing there's at least one topic where I can go to if I ever needed to ask a basic question relating to a specific topic

>>2485056
I'm glad these are back.

Some years ago Xphile in his infinite wisdom linked me to a YT vid of an early adopter of Vajrayana, who was being interviewed on how grueling the integration process was back in the early 60's, talking about how he was treated more or less like a dog and quizzed like a child. He wasn't, like, bitching, but he does give a pretty clear refutation of the idea that conversion is an easy process, or that those with minimal passing interest should be considered converts.

If anyone has any clue what I'm talking about and can link the interview I'd appreciate it, because I've been hunting on the archive for weeks and can't find it.

how many of you follow
https://www.youtube.com/user/conscioustv/videos

>general

>>>/out/

>>2485541

>conversion and pagan hazing rituals
>buddhism

Pick 1 vajrayana a shit

>>2485120
Only real "war" between Buddhist "sects" that I know of are the feuds between the Tibetan sects. I suppose thats probably due to theocratic government system.

>>2485541
I would like a link.