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**Jenisoisy** · 07-22-2010, 04:03 PM

I agree with Retro, but the only reason the Dhamma has been widely available since the Buddha's death or some shortish time thereafter is due to those sects. The Dhamma seems not to have been transmitted down the centuries in a form unmixed, unadulterated, without imaginative accumulations. Would it have survived without acculturation and so many adding their own take and spin on it? Without a very large number of people adhering only to the Dhamma (as opposed to Buddhism), what would happen to awareness of the Dhamma from now on into the future without the sects? How do we increase awareness of the core, pure Dhamma, and help people see through cultural additions? I guess I already know the answer: we just have to put our point of view out there where as many people as possible can get at it, and make our arguments as simple and clear as possible.

07-22-2010, 04:03 PM	#3
Jenisoisy Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 411 Senior Member	I agree with Retro, but the only reason the Dhamma has been widely available since the Buddha's death or some shortish time thereafter is due to those sects. The Dhamma seems not to have been transmitted down the centuries in a form unmixed, unadulterated, without imaginative accumulations. Would it have survived without acculturation and so many adding their own take and spin on it? Without a very large number of people adhering only to the Dhamma (as opposed to Buddhism), what would happen to awareness of the Dhamma from now on into the future without the sects? How do we increase awareness of the core, pure Dhamma, and help people see through cultural additions? I guess I already know the answer: we just have to put our point of view out there where as many people as possible can get at it, and make our arguments as simple and clear as possible.
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