What is your favourite form of Buddhism ?

Pure Land

t. filthy casual

>>3173804
Better off with Nestorianism or Manichaeism in that case.

vajrayana is superior form

>>3173822
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>>3173813
But those aren't forms of Buddhism.

Mahayana makes more sense to me than theravada or secular buddhism honestly but aside from that I'm not well read enough to understand the differences in sects.
Honestly though, pure land buddhism does make the most sense in the context of the mahayana but I can see why people don't really respect it since it seems more like christianity than buddhism.

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>>3173830
Pure Land Buddhism curiously came about around the 2nd century AD. Some revisionists might try to push that date back though. Manichaeism was syncretic and incorporated aspects of Buddhism. As for Nestorianism it was the dominant church in the East also known as the Persian church.
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>>3173804

This, but its not good when people conflate christianity with pure land as they are literally utterly and completely at odds with eachother

>>3173997
>completely at odds with eachother
how so?

>>3174003

I can't cover all the ground but a few cursory points would be :

>The Cosmology of Christianity is utterly incompatible in regards to a first cause, faith in Jesus, heaven, sin, rebirth etc.

>Christians believe that Jesus is the only way to salvation, and that he is the son of God, and all other revelations are false.

>Pure Land practitioners believe that Amitābha can deliver us to the Pure Land as a "saviour-like" figure, but it is not the only path to Bohisattvahood. Merely the easiest for a lay practitioner.

>Pure Land practitioners seek entry to the Pure Land and Bohisattvahood, not the eternal presence of the Christian God.

>The Pure Land /= Christian Heaven, The Pure Land is an impermanent stepping stone on the path to becoming a bodhisattva.

>Amitābha will accompany *anyone* to the Pure Land if they chant his name with devotion and true devotion, a priest or a mass murderer.

>If an ardent and faithful supporter of Christ worships and follows Christ, but also reveres other Gods, then they will not go to heaven.


I've missed out potentially dozens of other dissimilarities. But a good place to read up on them and make your own conclusions would be Yin Kuang's letters concerning Pure Land.

Tibetan Zen because I learned about it in an episode of Twin Peaks.

>>3173787
All the yanas and its methods are valid upayas to reach liberation

No idea why is there such an insistence that X path is superior. I've seen this mostly with some tibetan schools

>>3173787
Chinese Tantra