Would a buddhist faction fare well in the grim darkness of the

Short answer: As well as an icecle in an open bonfire
Long answer: If im not mistaken buddhism largely consists in peace, the belief that want if the source of suffering, that one dies and is reborn according to ones owm deeds. Gods in 40K are created by the collective mind of sentient beigns (and followers), so taking into account how "There is only war" there would be little peace seeking monks. Reincarnation is tricky due to the Warps condition (horrid) and it takes a powerful psyker to elude the attention of anything in it to reincarnate.
Then again, there have been warrior buddhist factions in real life, so maybe they could have a chance.

No, because grimderp will ensure they all die horribly.

>>49164181
> buddhism largely consists in peace
Peace through superior firepower, you mean.
I mean, Ghandi did like the nukes.
Trust me, I'm a professional historian that has played through all Civilization games.

>>49164767
Buddhism is basically about realizing the ego doesn't exist and gain freedom from mortal passions and wants

>>49164781
Forgot about that warmongering chap, thank for the heads up lad!

>>49164950
You can argue that Eldar's 'let's all die and become the ultimate world ending eldar god' is buddhism's view of the end of the world.

They'd be the setting's Vong.

They would do well against Chaos, as they'd be much more difficult to corrupt/scare/manipulate. They would probably fare poorly against the other factions though.

>>49164181
Assuming they had enough numbers and technology to be a long last faction, instead of being instakill when facing any of the other ones, then they have some advantages and disadvantages.

Buddhism focus on surpressing wants and feelings and focusing in feeling nothing, and therefore fearing nothing, through meditation, would mean they would have a low warp signature. Assuming psyker buddhists were as adept at this philosophy as the other members of this faction, we might see psykers with great focus that can use their powers with restraint and precision, minimizing the attention they draw from the warp. If this way of thinking became widely accepted and taken in the Imperium, we could see the chaos god losing power.

Khorne would starve without trillions of angry and warmonging humans seeking vengeance or glory in battle, as the warrior monks only fight when it's needed and because it's needed, and not out of desire for it. And assuming they remain faithful to their belief, they'd keep themselves in check not to get too 'into it'.

Acceptance of ones fate and mortality would see a weakened nurgle. Without great personal ambitions being enlightment, Tzeench would perhaps not mingle, but shift, from the lord of change and chaotic political infighting, to simply a god of Knowlegde in the form of enlightment. And slaanesh...Well, this one would take the worse of the blow, with desires being gone.

Other factions, like orks, eldar, tau and tyranids, either have no warp presence, or struggle to conceal theirs, or have a particular effect on warp, so the chaos gods mostly live of humans and the infinetely smaller population of dark eldar.

>>49164181
You don't want a buddhist faction. They'd get their shit pushed in...

You want a Ikko Ikki faction...They'd kickass and rule the galaxy.

First off, Bhuddism has nothing to do with peace when being attacked.
It simply does not attack first, but if attacked, Bhuddism retaliates.
If surrounded by war, Bhuddism will not involve itself in it, lest they are attacked.
But you can be sure that the defense forces would be innumerous in such a time.
I dunno much about the psyker shit and the warp and such, but all I know is that Bhuddism would not simply get pushed in, if granted proper equipment.

>>49165225
>Monks, even if bandits were to carve you up savagely, limb by limb, with a two-handled saw, he among you who let his heart get angered even at that would not be doing my bidding. Even then you should train yourselves: 'Our minds will be unaffected and we will say no evil words. We will remain sympathetic, with a mind of good will, and with no inner hate. We will keep pervading these people with an awareness imbued with good will and, beginning with them, we will keep pervading the all-encompassing world with an awareness imbued with good will — abundant, expansive, immeasurable, free from hostility, free from ill will.' That's how you should train yourselves.

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>>49164781
>> buddhism
> Ghandi

>>49164781

Gandhi was some sort of weird Abrahamic Hindu - 0 to do with Bood or his followers.

>>49164181
the old slann kinda were

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>>49164181
There's already Eldar and they fight exactly according to the zen of the sword. If you think buddhism is about sleeping next to rabid dogs, you are wrong. The rabid dog gets put down swiftly.

>>49165176
This.

>>49165176
Damn, son

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>>49165186
>You want a Ikko Ikki faction

Nice faction you have there, faggot. It would be a shame if something happened to it.

>>49164181
I could see an esoteric order dedicated to the god-emperor that knows enough about chaos to understand it runs on human emotion.

As a result, aspirants would dedicate their lives to letting go of unneeded human emotion whilst retaining their soul/intellect/etc (i.e. things that make them human). Without this humanist element, other Imperial sects would think of them as little better than xenos.

The order would worship the emperor as the pinnacle of the human condition and work to free their bond from the material realm so they can join in the Astronomicon voluntarily and eternally. Dissonant emotions feed chaos, whereas serenity feeds the emperor. Or something like that.

The order could practice warfare as an artistic/aesthetic pursuit. I'd imagine they could even work as a form of Null, making them extremely useful to the Inquisition.

What do you think?

>>49165176
Now I want this

>>49165054
Not really

The Eldar are basically hindus in that aspect

Buddhists realize that a supreme godhead is nonsense just like the ego, just on a bigger scale

>>49165176
I think my statue of Siddhartha Gautama just smirked

>>49165176
tagging unto this, if you want to draw from Tibetan Buddhism's mystic side then they would be even more anti-chaos.
in the legends, there were prominent cases of mystics/sorcerers who would find demons and kick their asses until they either ran away or were sworn to turn around and become protectors of humanity.
Translate this into 40k and you have a faction with the ability to subvert demons into their positive aspects and set them to defend their worlds.

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>>49164181

It could work, Buddhism is the world first onthology guide. It asks, what is existence, what is Being, what is impermanence, how can you break the cycle?

I can even imagine a chapter of Buddhist Space marines\Librarians concerned about understanding deep philosophical and existencial questions, but retaliating aggressively if provoked. Or Heraclian Marines.

Most people have the wrong idea about Buddhism because of the 4 noble truths, it was simply a less drugged interpretation of all the previous metapsychology that came out of India before.

>>49166392
>>49170468
>>49165176
>A small empire within the Empire that is basically Space Imperial China complete with Buddhist Space Marines who dress like Ashuras and are descended from Khan.
>Higher quality of life then much of the Imperium due to "Muh [idealized] Confucian values"
>Their version of the Horus Heresy is basically Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Primarchs Edition

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>Buddhist guardian dieties
>Wrathful Dieties
>The four Wisdom Kings

You are obligated to protect the Dharma and the way of Truth from Evil.

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>>49170548

I was thinking more of a refugee mountain fortress world with a Adeptus Chapter full of Librarians killing warp demons by meditation alone, some of did not made it froze on its cliffs.

A silent war.

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>>49170610
>"If I do not descend into the hell-worlds of the Warp and preach the pure dharma there, who will?"
>"And if I do not pass, in the mind, in the spirit, in the volition, in the perceptive-feelings, in the emotions, in consciousness, into the unclean realms to preach the pure dharma, who will?"
>"And if I do not pass into the gardens of Nurgle, tainted by desire, into the palace of Slaanesh, tainted by desire, into the labyrinth of Tzeentch, tainted by desire, into the throne of Khorn, tainted by desire, into the Chaos Wastes, tainted by desire, and preach the pure dharma there, who will?"
>"Monks, in pursuit of the pure dharma, in the name of the pure dharma, for the blessings of the pure dharma, I must descend into all these hellworlds that I might liberate the trillions of sentient beings living there. Abide therefore in the truth until I return."
>And with that, the great Chapter Master Maitreya closed tight his eyes in the meditation, and was not heard from again.

>>49170720

Nice.

Is not The Emperor the Buddha as well?

>>49170748
>Mind blown

I always viewed Nurgle as a perverted form of Buddhism in 40K.

>>49170720

The Clerics of this chapter practice a form of Sokushinbotsu to prepare themselves for entombment in a Dreadnought so they may continue the work of teaching the dharma and seek the liberation of all humans.

>>49170783
Nurgle still preys on the desires to live and for family as his primary recruitment drives.

His plauges cause despair, killing people and corrupting the dead into the undead. People starve and become diseased, to live they turn to nurgle out of fear or death, out of a desire for the pain to stop.

Buddhism lets go of even pain really. Which is why they set themselves on fire in protest.

>>49165392
Nothing in that saying you can't Buddhas Palm a motherfucker.

>>49170548
Romance of the Three Kingdoms with spaceships, Space Marines and Thousands of Imperial Guards in straw hats?

I want that in my 40k.

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>>49170895

>>49170837

I forget the demon's name, but it's the one that was taunting the buddha during his meditation under the tree. As stupid as it sounds I only remember it because the SMT version of it is essentially a giant tentacle monster on a golden chariot with a penis head but that's not how it's depicted in canon.

That and it had three daughters with it who tried to tempt the Buddha as well so maybe they can form the basis of this chapter's hated foe: A Plague Marine with his three Fallen Sister disciples

>>49170895
It probably already does. Someone needs to roll up a guard regiment genning thread and get us some buddhist themed regiments made.

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>>49170951
Mara

The Disciples of Yoma are a renegade band of Marines who have pledged themselves to Nurgle, having eaten the fruit from his Garden of filth given by one of his greater Daemons [insert name for !Izanagi]

>>49170720
Instead of dead or missing or in technological statis, Chapter Master is in such a deep state of meditation his body ages so very slowly. He's thousands of years old but looks as good as a six hundred year old Marine. You can't see him breathing but he doesn't rot. He's so deep into meditation, he's almost as if 'lost'. But the chapter monks know where he is, and what he's doing. Marines for this chapter aren't selected by physical alone, but by great focus of mind. The candidates lie in the lotus pose, meditating for days, under the storm and the freezing cold and torrid sun. And the Librarians feel their auras, their warp signatures. Those that, even hungry, starved and cold, remain pure of thought, are taken as marines.

The serfs are all lower priesthood. Everything is a ritual. Donning the armor, cleaning the weapons. Everything's sacred. All is the moment.

>>49171091

Make them specialised in fighting Slaanesh? As support mind artillery for Grey Knights.

>>49171091
The chapter master is near eternal, but under him is a council of elders (raised from the servants who are constantly educated in their spare time) and marines who jointly run the chapter.

This often causes friction when working alongside other marine chapters.

This thread is one of the best 40k threads in a while...

>>49170951
I'm rather found of the "sister don't fall" canon, otherwise that would be a good idea. Why not three actual children, in the sense of chaos spawn that was created from his own flesh and maybe some willing or unwilling mistress, or just magic?

>>49168800
>Buddhist Grey Knights
>Bud Knights

totally bros

>>49171324
Mortal man corrupted, then from his demon infused flesh, transplanted to 3, normal looking daughters. Hidden with taint.

>>49171324

I don't see why not? Three female psykers who have his favor and are treated like daughters and or are his head priestesses

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Captain Pyrrho lowers his Bolter and says.

All is impermanent. And what is the all that is impermanent? The eye is impermanent, visual objects ... eye-consciousness... eye contact... whatever is felt as pleasant or unpleasant or neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant, born of eye-contact is impermanent. Begone Daemon you are empty, the raft is Broken.

The warp Deamon vanishes without struggle.

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>>49165176
You are a sly one Prince.

"Disciple Brother, what is desire?"
"Desire is the source of all suffering."
"Disciple Brother, what is suffering?"
"Suffering is that which brings Kharma to the soul, that which anchors the ego and prevents us from rising to the Shining Light of the Emperor."
"Disciple Brother, What is ego?"
"Ego is nothing but an illusion."
"So Brother Disciple, what is Desire?"
"Desire is Nothing, Master."
"And do we fear the Nothing?"
"No, we fear it not."
"Than face that which is desire made flesh, and fear it not."

And then the drop pods fall over a Slaanesh infestation

>>49171629

But Brother what if I desire liberation from suffering?

>>49171727
"That's a paddlin'."

We have to make this chapter a reality.

>>49171820
Someone find the chapter gen rules.
Then we can gen some world(s) for them
and then gen some guardsman regiments.

>>49171820
Asura Marines?

Scions of Siddharta?

Lightnings of the Celestial Heaven?

>>49165176
>Acceptance of ones fate and mortality would see a weakened nurgle.
>>49170783
>I always viewed Nurgle as a perverted form of Buddhism in 40K.
>>49170837
>Nurgle still preys on the desires to live and for family as his primary recruitment drives.

Maybe I'm too attached to the old Realms of Chaos fluff, but I always see the core of Nurgle being exactly about accepting your fate, learning to live in an inherently corrupt world and letting go of ambition (which feeds Tzeentch, Nurgle's opposite), which seems pretty Buddhist to me (as someone with a limited undertanding of Buddhist theology / philosophy).

>>49171947
Eh, not exactly. Nurgle pospones the fate of death. Thats hardly accepting it.

>>49171915


I like words from Greco Buddhism because it gives a more 40K feel with the Greek.
People forget the influence Buddhism had one the West like Sceptics, Stoics it goes on and on.


Noumenon Knights.


I like Scions of Siddharta, I can already see the war barges being named Kanthaka after Buddha's famous horse, or War Barge Acatalepsia.

>>49171979
Nurgle is a perverted form of enlightenment and acceptance of death. If letting go of the fear of decay and loss is thought of as developing spiritual enlightenment, worshipping Nurgle is like becoming a drug addict because existence is less terrifying when you're high - he stops you feeling it, though without him it becomes even worse, and with him you lose everything anyway.

>>49165392
This just means you don't hate them or have any bad feelings towards them. You accept them as people and forgive their actions. This doesn't mean you don't kill them because otherwise you die, and it doesn't mean you mourn them because it was a necessity.

Nurgle taunts him "And who shall be the witness ? You will never awaken little man.

Chief Librarian Scylax of Caryanda yells over the roar of the battlefield " TERRA IS MY WITNESS"

The ground suddenly rumbles and Scylax roars like a lion.

>>49171915
Boddhisattvas?

Wisdom kings?

Wrathful guardian generals of heaven?

>>49172638

The 108 Sons

>>49172638
Aletheia Knights

So do we want to break out the chart to help flesh them out where we havn't done so already?

In any case why were we founded? Roll a d10

>>49172106
You don't hate them, you don't fear them. You accept that they are thieves. Your bolter blast their brains not out of anger, but because you have message that needs to get somewhere and it won't get there if you die. Or because you need to continue fighting.

It's not about what you want or feel. It's about where the river of Tao flows. It flows towards their quick ending so that you may proceed on the holiest path.

>>49172783
Needed someone with the roll tables.

>>49172819
Are they on 1dchan?

>>49172819

Well yeah, I have the 1d4 page up now.

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>49172783

>>49172842

>Strategic Prognostication - "Our tarot cards say there's going to be a threat here, maybe. Found a Chapter!"

Alright, so we believe a great threat is on the way.

How old are we? roll a d100

>>49172905

You have to put the dice in the options field...

Rolled 57 (1d100)

>>49172922


I know sorry.

Rolled 66 (1d100)

>>49172892

>>49172943
>>49172946

So we're split between the 38th and 39th century, nothing particularly special so let's say we were founded in the 38th unless anything else would be considered cooler/better.

In the mean time, we could role to see who our daddy is or do we want to stick with White Scars since they were brought up earlier?

>>49172993
Stick.

Rolled 51 (1d100)

>>49172993

For fun.

Rolled 78 (1d100)

>>49172993
See if the random roll fits, if not, stick with white.

No point mucking about with ultrasmurfs or such, so go with what flows and see where the dice take us.

>>49173019

Blood angels huh? It could be interesting if they have to deal with Black Rage. This part could get controversial so we can leave this for later.

Roll d10 for flaws!

>>49173019
Blood Angels, warrior-monk rituals, 9th Legion which is the Hermit card.

Looks good to me.

>>49173055

We also rolled a traitor unknown via >>49173039, If so I'd say loyalist Word Bearers.

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>49173054

>>49173054

>>49173108
>Altered Stock - Gene-seed is altered and some implants are deficient - roll on Gene-Seed Deficiencies table

wew lads! roll a d10 for our gene seed deficiencies

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>49173158

>>49173158
Getting some roll deletions here... damnit.

>>49173191

>>49173164

It's a mutated catalepsean node so we can't shut off portions of our brain to rest so we actually have to sleep. Otherwise this could cause us to go into super meditation state.

Anyways, onwards sons of the emperor!

roll for demeanor d10

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>49173158
Might have figured out why.

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>49173244

>>49173250

How long should I waite before moving on to the next thing?

>>49173267
Just keep going once you have a roll.
Dont mind me. Ive figured out my shit.

>>49173244
Interesting maybe it was a deliberate flaw so we could access vanilla portions of the brain for meditation.

>>49173281

Very well then

we got >>49173262

Cleanse and Purify Afterall, we have to get rid of the distractions that lead us astray from the path after all.

Now then, who's our figure of legend, d100

>>49164181
I was once in a 40k larp where one dude had some Buddhist book that just had the covers replaced. He was trying to convert people without the authorities knowing about his heretical literature and deeds.

>>49173307

It makes me think back to the Emperor's Nightmare because I think they had a similar sort of mutation as well? It would make sense that the organ that puts them into hyper sleep is also affected as well so our Chapter master was able to go into super meditation.

Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>49173315

>>49173471

Well what do you know? Our figure of legend is, in fact, our Chapter Master.

So aside from becoming a bodisattiva what was his great deed? roll d100

Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>49173511

>>49173524

He is the bane of Orks to such an extent that they know and fear his name.

Naturally, such rampant creatures of desire would fear our holy serenity.

roll d100 for our homeworld

Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>49173555

>>49173578

Our world is a feral world.

roll d100 for terrain

Rolled 87 (1d100)

>>49173593

>>49173599
We meditate so hard we dont even have to breathe.

>>49173599

An airless feral world.

Possibly an exo-planet that was a failed colony? or has an extensive bio-dome within it.

Roll d10 for how we rule this place.

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>49173635

>>49173662

Stewardship

Fascinating rolls so far, now on to the meat of our chapter.

Roll d10 for our chapter organization.

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>49173696

>>49173711

Codex Adherent.

We chant the sutras of the Codex Astartes as we go into battle.

roll d10 for our combat doctrine

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>49173739

>>49173755

Droppods

Sthel Reign!

Although I'm open to change this one as this seems to come up in a lot of chapter creation unless you guys are cool with it.

Also, should re roll for chapter beliefs or has that been detailed already? It's a d100 if a roll is desired.

Rolled 76 (1d100)

>>49173791
Lets keep the drop pods.

Also d100 for fun again.

>>49173837

Alright, so 76 gives us Death Cult.

I think this is the first time I've seen it rolled during one of these. Would go well with Blood Angel descent.

d10 for chapter strength!

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>49173875

>>49173895

Nominal Strength, We have 10 full companies ready to go.

roll d100 to see who are our buddies.

Rolled 76 (1d100)

>>49173931

>>49173942

The Imperial Navy.

Perhaps they support us when we rain justice and wisdom from above or our homeword is a base of operations for them. Just throwing shit to the wall to see what sticks

Do we roll for enemies or keep what we've had so far? d100 if we roll.

>>49173975
I say we go with Chaos here.

Looks good so far. Need a name.

>>49174014

Alright, so we'll treat it as a roll of 69 so we have a particular daemon prince as our foe.

We still need to nail down who dad is as that will probably fill everything else out for naming.

We have White Scars which was first, Blood Angels and Unknown/Traitors during the rolls.

>>49174051

Unknown is cool, more mystery.

Makes sense the enemy is slaanesh. Eldar probably tolerate us.

>>49172638
Vajrabearers? Wayfinders? (Pun on dharma) Uh.
Something more obviously buddhist.

>>49174228

I'm partial to traitor stock but that can be talked out.

Also, for the benefit of everyone, here's our rolls thus far

-We were founded to counter a threat
-We were founded in the 38 millennium
-We don't know who dad is
-Our geneseed is altered so that are catalepsean node is changed somehow
-We Cleanse and Purify
-Our figure of legend is our Chapter Master who kicked the Orks shit so hard they still know who he is
-We live on an airless Feral World of sorts that we leave others to rule in our stead.
-We are best buds with the Imperial Navy
-We're also a Codex Adherent Chapter at full strength and we favor Drop Pods as our general tactics
-And our chapter is also a Death Cult
-Finally, our enemy happens to be a Daemon Prince or Daemon of some sorts, possibly a Daemon prince of Slaanesh.

>>49174328
>>49174339

The 3 Marks Legion, from the 3 marks of existence.

Why traitor?

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>>49174328

Wayfinders is simple and nice I like it.
The Awakened Marines?
The Truthsayers ( a homage to Frank Herbert )

>>49174416

I just like the idea of using traitors for something like this. Granted we can keep them unknown just for the mystery. I mean, they are a bunch of death bound buddhist warriors.

That said, I offer up the following names:

108 Bronzemen (i know bronzemen were not a real thing but a cool callback to kungfun movies)

Divine Arhats
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arhat

Walkers of the Wheel.

>>49174575
Brass monks are better

>>49174624

Brass Arhats?

>>49174802
Gold and deep red for colors?

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Is /tg/ great again?

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>>49177004
Definitely one of the best threads I've seen in a while.

I liked the Wayfinders from earlier as a name, maybe something like Jewel Callers would be solid (referencing the 3 jewels)

>>49177004
Look at the other threads. No.

If anything we've demonstrated you can occasionally polish a turd once it's frozen or something.

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>>49178085
I like Wayfinders as well, its not pretentious sounding, although there are tons of weird cool Sanscrit and Greek names to use.

>>49178173
I feel its better not much but better. I would like to try to make it good again, /tg/ gave a lot of good stuff not only tabletop, music, games, books, comics, rare gems, I feel I want to give something back.

I'm gonna assume they'd lean towards Theravada Buddhism theologically but for practical purposes Mahayana?

>>49178402

I don't recall the specifics of Theraveda (that's the one that's more monastic?) But I could see Mahayana because of the worship of the Emperor as the Buddha or possibly as Matreiya

>>49178402
That's what I was thinking, they'd have a lot of Therevada leanings but in the end they're still Space Marines and would have to have a Mahayana foundation because of the Emperor.

I think they'd have a different outlook on battle too, like was already mentioned. I think I remember reading that early Buddhism heavily weighted the state of a person's mind at the time of death with determining reincarnation, so they'd probably put a lot of value in keeping a cool head during battle so they can best serve the Emperor and not even contribute to Chaos during battle, or however that'd translate.

Another possible lore option would be that the marines themselves are mostly the same as normal marines, maybe a bit calmer or thoughtful or harder to corrupt, and it's the psykers that really focus on meditation and being space monks. Therevada Buddhism places emphasis on being a monk for sure, but the rest of the community is what supports the monk lifestyle by feeding them and protecting them etc. (with farmers and soldiers and so on).

Also: mostly vegetarian?

>>49178607
Now I really see the psyker monks meditating on the top of a airless, feral mountainous rock of a world, where Lovecraftian monsters chew its insides, and most of the community lives underground, its also a dangerous space neighbourhood, maybe next to some chaos, or warp instability, so the Navy appreciates this chapter homeworld providing relief , like a army trying to cross the Himalayas.

Nobody knows their origin but the traitor origin is also appealing.

>>49178607
>vegetarian?
Nutri-paste. Modified to be completely tasteless

>>49178809
Harm no living thing, kill no living thing - but enemies of the Emperor

Good inspirations for this chapter could be Ahsoka the Great, as well as the Buddhist Wisdom Kings - concepts centered around "slaying" the vices that chain us to creation

Ignorance
Formations
Consciousness
Name & Form
Six Sense Bases
Contact
Feeling
Craving
Clinging
Becoming
Birth
Death

Studying the twelve Nidanas today is quite amazing, especially for its time. I have a feel these Astartes would be really well fucking protected against Chaos.

Asoka the Great was the last to lead our chapter before he found the way. Our Chapter then was as any other, lost to its passions and pride, tied to this imperfect reality. We waged a long and destructive war against the Orks of Waagh Kalinga, destroying the forces of Warboss Ka'linga Da'lit in a protracted battle of attrition that left our forces decimated, and our chapter reduced to but one - Asoka himself.

Despairing at so much destruction, so much loss of life, and the loss of purpose with the death of his Chapter, Asoka withdrew to meditations. Upon the airless world of Bodh Gaya he sat beneath one of the great sky trees whose boughs reached into the atmosphere, forming their own small ecosystems in the small pockets of oxygen found beneath their branches.

For Six Years he meditated there, on the duty of a marine, the life of a man, and the elimination of the vices that made him so fragile.

As he entered his seventh year of intense space like concentration on the nature of all phenomenon, the great enemy, Mara, Demon of Slaanesh and blinder of men, took note of this human approaching Emperor-like enlightenment. He did all he could in his power to stop Asoka from self realizing the truth, threatening him with visions of violence and death, of earthly riches and splendour, of vice and flesh. These visions which would have slain or destroyed a lesser man, such was the accuracy of their illusion, Asoka overcame and finally found enlightenment. Like our Emperor before him he had peered beyond the veil of this imperfect reality and seen the truth of eternity. Girded with the surity of the way, he returned to the Imperium, and set about the great work of rebuilding his Chapter from nothing. Such was the conviction and genuineness of his arguments that the high lords themselves were moved, and bent their resources to aiding Asoka in this renewed founding. No longer though would Asoka's chapter be what they were, instead they would be seekers and finders of the way.

>>49179231

Perfect. Perhaps he did some time in the Deathwatch to allow him the chance to rebuild his chapter which follows the fact the nature of the chapter is unknown as they may have used traitor stock to do it.

>>49179231
Instead of Asoka why not something less known, like Channa, The Divine Charioteer who gave the Prince the Four Visions.

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>>49164181
Chaos undivided.

>>49165499
>There's already Eldar and they fight exactly according to the zen of the sword.

>>49165499
>Eldar
>wiedling the selfless sword
The Kekkest of Keks that were ever kekked.

>>49168800
>tagging unto this, if you want to draw from Tibetan Buddhism's mystic side then they would be even more anti-chaos.
More like highly heretic. "And now all of you will create a custom chaos demon and banish it. It might run off, FYI. In that case you'll be banished from here until you took care of that chaos infestation you just caused LOL. The other folks will learn rites centered on Kharn as the protector of the faith and Tzeentch as the teacher of the way."

>>49172786
Actually Buddhism can also feel anger, the trick is really finding where it comes within you, and taking off its bite and power. So Marines could feel anger but in a controlled way, meditating while fighting like real life walking meditation.

>>49164181
Some of the most brutal martial arts (Muay Thai, Letwei, Bokator) originated in Buddhist countries. The most famous warrior-monks (Shaolin) are Buddhists.

I'd see a Buddhism-inspired faction with few elite units heavy focused on hand-to-hand combat and high-speed attacks (assault marines with double chainswords), psykers, few but very heavy vehicles, and then plenty crappy infantry IG-style.

>>49180535
No dreadnoughts though.

That's just abominable forced unnatural living.

>>49181138
>a device demonstrating that death and life are one and the same that doubles as a mobile shrine
>abominable forced unnatural living

pls.

>>49181215
No dreadnoughts

>>49164181
In Journey to the West, Sun Wu Kong was challenged to escape the palm of Buddha's hand, after conquering all of heaven. He journeyed to the uttermost edge of the universe and there found five golden pillars. He left his signature on one of them to prove he was there and returned, boasting of his feat.

Buddha then revealed that Sun Wu Kong's sign was left on one of his fingers. He then imprisoned Sun Wu Kong, who had conquered all of heaven single-handed, beneath a mountain of rock, an magically bound him to serve whoever should free him.

All the universe can fit within the hand of Buddha. His ascension has left him with limitless power, understanding and wisdom. I'm not sure how well he'd fare against the gods of Chaos, but he'd certainly be at least on a par with them, as the representation of peace, enlightenment and freedom from any desire. That's to say nothing of the way Buddhist charms and rituals are often used in East Asia, as a method to expel, defeat and destroy demons.

>>49170597
>Rejected by Jojo.

>>49174802
That's just asking for people to call them "asshats."

>>49177004
>>49178085
>>49178173

An avalanche is foretold by the movement of pebbles, Anon.

>>49178899
>On a world besieged by chaos, Drop pods begin to fall from the skies.
>Instead of Smashing randomly into the planet, every single one is carefully guided to land on a solid or rocky surface.
>As the marines emerge, bolters roaring, they take care not to trample the grass.
>Because when Warhound Titans wage war, it is the grass that suffers most.

>>49164181
They survived in China throughout their civil wars and revolutions. They survived in Japan and Korea throughout WWII and its aftermath. They survived the Khmer Rouge and the wars of South East Asia.

So yes, they would survive. Buddhists, contrary to popular Western belief, are not necessarily pacifists. You could point out that the Buddha taught peace, but so did Jesus. Kind of a moot point.

Buddhist often recognize any other gods but see them as subject to the same suffering as the rest of life; to live is to suffer. They would have no problem seeing the Emperor as a god, but he still suffers. If anything, he would be seen as the greatest Bodhisattva taking on suffering and forgoing his enlightenment for the sake of the rest of humanity. But I doubt they would see him as the Buddha. The Buddha frees himself from suffering rather than being subject to it. The Buddha's incarnation never lasts long for that reason.

Would they be branded as heretics? Probably. Would they worship chaos? No. Chaos gods are still subject to suffering (especially if they enjoy it). They are still attached to existence; even if the attachment is an abstract concept. Chaos God are based on a more Platonistic view of reality and Buddhists simply don't think that way.

They only faction I could see Buddhists not being persecuted in is the Tau, and even that's a very slim probability.

>>49164181
the superstitious and under educated will always help a Buddhist monk out. They're a kind/passive people, only the most jaded of warrior would bear anything resembling animosity towards them. Most people would just be indifferent.

Small villages will always fight to defend their Buddhist temples in exchange for the spiritual death rites Buddhists provide in return.

Only in a future where forces actively seeks to destroy the buddhists outright would they disappear.

Many Buddhists are practical, they'll lay a smackdown on someone so long as it doesn't end in death, and they will even eat meat if they have to, they understand that all life is precious, even the life of the plants, and that at some point you have to chose to eat if you want to continue learning to reach enlightenment.

Remember that the Buddha did not say "my way is the only way" only that "my way is a way to reach enlightenment". any real budhist understands that breaking with the noble path will bring suffering, but we are always the cause of our own suffering and sometimes actions must be taken to chose the path of least suffering.

>>49174014
What if we have the gene-seed of the Emperor's Children? It explains why we're as anti-Slaaneshi and Buddhist as we are - we've seen what excess and desire can do.
>>49177004
Summer's finally ending.

Oh shit, how about gene seed imperfections cause baldness early on in the process of becoming an official member?

>After being accepted into the chapter, a process that puts more weight on mental fortitude in this chapter than others, the new marines are implanted with their gene seed and meditate in the micro-atmosphere of an enormous sky tree, in the manner of their founder, for days until their hair falls from their head.

The real enemy if the Chaos gods would be Taoists.

>>49182789
>tyranid buddhists

think about it

>>49182789
They would probably see the Emperor as an enlightened one.

>>49164781
>Peace through Power
Ok, Kane, you need to step out from behind the shadows.

Down with GDI!
Kane Lives!