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**Cajlwdvx** · 10-03-2011, 08:38 AM

Hi, Kaarine. The word "revealed" implies that some supernatural source gave some hidden knowledge to a human. The word "revelation" can be used metaphorically, as I think you are, but it doesn't imply anything supernatural. In a sense, yes, the truths one discovers in reading the suttas and in one's practice can be called "revelations," in the sense that a truth was revealed, but that's a mundane use of the term. The way I read the OP is that, "Are Buddhist scriptures revealed texts?" is asking if the Buddhist texts were handed down by a supernatural being, such as a god. I may be wrong, of course.

10-03-2011, 08:38 AM	#6
Cajlwdvx Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 654 Senior Member	Hi, Kaarine. The word "revealed" implies that some supernatural source gave some hidden knowledge to a human. The word "revelation" can be used metaphorically, as I think you are, but it doesn't imply anything supernatural. In a sense, yes, the truths one discovers in reading the suttas and in one's practice can be called "revelations," in the sense that a truth was revealed, but that's a mundane use of the term. The way I read the OP is that, "Are Buddhist scriptures revealed texts?" is asking if the Buddhist texts were handed down by a supernatural being, such as a god. I may be wrong, of course.
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