Guest guest Posted September 15, 2002 Report Share Posted September 15, 2002 Stephen Hodge comments: >It must also be remembered that extensive portions of the aagamas/nikaayas >etc were "retrofitted" with words being attributed to the Buddha to suit >various doctrinal / organizational agendas -- I have seen this repeated from time to time. But is there any evidence for the claim ? It seems to me that a few scholars suggested that this 'must have been' the case. This evolved to 'is likely' to have been the case and eventually we have many scholars saying that it 'was' the case. Evidence to the contrary seems very clear. In debates we standardly see school A citing evidence from the scriptures of school B in support of their own position. Evidently no doctrinally based revision has taken place on most of the major issues. I have seen evidence for what one might call 'doctrinal creep' i.e. specific discourses composed at a later date which contain ideas belonging to the time of composition. Lance Cousins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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