What are some good books about Buddhism?Nonfiction stuff about the philosophy and the culture, and fictional stories that relate to Buddhism somehow.
>>24750421You might find the letters of nichiren interesting
>>24750421Indian Esoteric Buddhism (Davidson) is quite itneresting
>>24750421>fictional storiesLord of Light by Zelazny
why are buddhists so attached to the visage of the buddha? sounds quite hypocritical to me
Why are the Buddhism threads always so over-broad? I know for a fact there are posters here with an autistic special interest in enlightenment, but they never seem to be the ones making the threads. At this point there should just be a Buddhism General, and it should be on /his/, so all the neophytes can congregate there without shitting up the catalogue.Anyway, it’s never been my thing. Siddhartha is good if you haven’t gotten around to it.
>>24750740>Why are the Buddhism threads always so over-broad?My reasoning is I'm newly getting into Buddhism and am interested in exploring its various shapes.>>24750685I really don't know, it's something I think about too. In the few books I've read about Buddhism so far, they express that Buddhism is not a belief system but rather it is about knowing and seeing demonstrable truths; but within the same books, they both talk about how it doesn't matter if the truth comes from the Buddha's mouth, it could come from anybody's mouth and still be the truth, and also refer to the Buddha as "the blessed one" or "the holy one."
