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**snislarne** · 04-20-2012, 12:33 PM

Temples and Buddhist art were not used by the Buddha himself because he was the originator of the Buddhist religion and would therefore pre-date and have established the traditions we follow. I didn't really understand where you were coming from with this obvious statement. If Buddha was to worship a statue of himself, or his face in a pond, that would be narcissism. Yet THAT'S probably the subject of another topic! lol
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Well obviously I know they weren't used by the Buddha. My point is that there's nothing to suggest that he would have approved of ornate temples, statues etc, nor is there any record in the Pali canon of him teaching 'deity' practices to his students.

I may start another discussion about this later but meanwhile lets get back to the topic of the quote #1 again now, thanks.

04-20-2012, 12:33 PM	#12
snislarne Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 460 Senior Member	Temples and Buddhist art were not used by the Buddha himself because he was the originator of the Buddhist religion and would therefore pre-date and have established the traditions we follow. I didn't really understand where you were coming from with this obvious statement. If Buddha was to worship a statue of himself, or his face in a pond, that would be narcissism. Yet THAT'S probably the subject of another topic! lol . Well obviously I know they weren't used by the Buddha. My point is that there's nothing to suggest that he would have approved of ornate temples, statues etc, nor is there any record in the Pali canon of him teaching 'deity' practices to his students. I may start another discussion about this later but meanwhile lets get back to the topic of the quote #1 again now, thanks.
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