re: #137 Dark_Falcon

OK, now I’m curious. Please elaborate.

I have no idea what you need elaborated. Chauvinism in the form of preferring the male over the female is very basic to Buddhism. The idea of a cultural being superior by nature of its ideology and dedication to a selfless path, that sort of chauvinism, is also very tied to Buddhism.

That period of Japanese militarism was hardly the first, Buddhism, hierarchy, chauvinism, and militarism had all been strongly intertwined for centuries by then.

Are you trying to make a point about ‘the teachings of Buddah’ as something separate from Buddhism, the same way we say that Christians don’t tend to act anything like Christ actually preached—they don’t give up their worldly possessions, for example?