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**wrardymar** · 08-13-2011, 01:35 AM

There are hints that the process didn't always go smoothly, though. The monk Purāna politely rejected the First Council's "approved version" of the teachings, saying that he preferred to go by what he himself had heard and learnt from the Buddha.

And that was right after the Buddha's paranibbana -- not to speak of centuries later when the suttas were actually written down!

There were others who misapprehended or misrepresented his teachings and dissented based on what they thought they heard even when he was alive. The core teachings, the teachings of liberation, were repeated over and over in the suttas. Revisionism just isn't going to work here.

08-13-2011, 01:35 AM	#25
wrardymar Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 423 Senior Member	There are hints that the process didn't always go smoothly, though. The monk Purāna politely rejected the First Council's "approved version" of the teachings, saying that he preferred to go by what he himself had heard and learnt from the Buddha. And that was right after the Buddha's paranibbana -- not to speak of centuries later when the suttas were actually written down! There were others who misapprehended or misrepresented his teachings and dissented based on what they thought they heard even when he was alive. The core teachings, the teachings of liberation, were repeated over and over in the suttas. Revisionism just isn't going to work here.
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