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**NumsAmenniams** · 08-09-2012, 09:14 AM

Maybe even with my title you see where I may have it wrong. What do we call the buddhist writings?

I come from a Christian background which reveres their scripture as infallible, inerrant, perfect, yadda yadda etc. They hold up their book as the bastion of absolute truth.

I've come away from such thinking as well it doesn't hold up for me as absolute truth.

This in my mind - how do Buddhists approach their writings? More specifically: how should I personally approach Buddhist scripture?

I've already seen things in them that I can't gel with - but that doesn't negate the truths I do find in them.

08-09-2012, 09:14 AM	#1
NumsAmenniams Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 532 Senior Member	Relationship to scriptures Maybe even with my title you see where I may have it wrong. What do we call the buddhist writings? I come from a Christian background which reveres their scripture as infallible, inerrant, perfect, yadda yadda etc. They hold up their book as the bastion of absolute truth. I've come away from such thinking as well it doesn't hold up for me as absolute truth. This in my mind - how do Buddhists approach their writings? More specifically: how should I personally approach Buddhist scripture? I've already seen things in them that I can't gel with - but that doesn't negate the truths I do find in them.
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