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That's only one thing the article "does." See my post above for the part relevant to this discussion.

I am addressing precisely that mahayana-revisionist assertion. Again, they are comparing surviving textual (written) documents against teachings that are known to have been passed down for a very long time by oral tradition, by folks who had vested interest in conveying them accurately and nothing else to do. At the same time, the Buddha's liberative teachings are easily identified by criteria that counterfeit stories based on superstition and speculative view cannot hope to mimic.