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bluemoon02.
http://beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html
1. Mahayana Buddhism (100%)
2. Hinduism (90%)
3. Theravada Buddhism (89%)
4. Liberal Quakers (82%)
5. Neo-Pagan (82%)
6. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (79%)
7. Unitarian Universalism (78%)
8. Jainism (76%)
9. Taoism (76%)
10. New Age (74%)
11. Sikhism (74%)
12. Bahá'í Faith (68%)
13. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (67%)
14. New Thought (63%)
15. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (62%)
16. Orthodox Quaker (60%)
17. Scientology (56%)
18. Jehovah's Witness (51%)
19. Secular Humanism (49%)
20. Reform Judaism (47%)
21. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (45%)
22. Orthodox Judaism (41%)
23. Seventh Day Adventist (40%)
24. Eastern Orthodox (28%)
25. Roman Catholic (28%)
26. Islam (25%)
27. Nontheist (24%)
Dead on accurate. I burst out laughing - I've been a Mahayana Buddhist for 17 years, was a monastic for 14 years.
I find it interesting that my views are closer to Hinduism than Theravada Buddhism, but my sect of Mahayana Buddhism has often been accused of being Hinduism by the Theravadas, so I think that's accurate as well.
The Theravadas do not accept the compassionate and broad view of the Mahayana and the teaching on Ultimate Truth as being the teaching of the Buddha, you see. There is a specific text on this called the 'Uttaratantra' that the Theravadas say "no way did the Buddha teach this" while the Mayahanists say "yes way." When you have a 3,000 year-old religion you get debates like this. Fortunately, Buddhists tend to not condemn the other schools as heresy so there have been relatively few atrocities (yes, there have been some) over these differences.
The Mahayanists tend to view the other forms of Buddhism as 'branches' of Buddhism, though there's a little smug superiority in the word 'Maha-yana' (strictly translated: High Path).
This was fun.
bluemoon02.http://beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html
1. Mahayana Buddhism (100%)
2. Hinduism (90%)
3. Theravada Buddhism (89%)
4. Liberal Quakers (82%)
5. Neo-Pagan (82%)
6. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (79%)
7. Unitarian Universalism (78%)
8. Jainism (76%)
9. Taoism (76%)
10. New Age (74%)
11. Sikhism (74%)
12. Bahá'í Faith (68%)
13. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (67%)
14. New Thought (63%)
15. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (62%)
16. Orthodox Quaker (60%)
17. Scientology (56%)
18. Jehovah's Witness (51%)
19. Secular Humanism (49%)
20. Reform Judaism (47%)
21. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (45%)
22. Orthodox Judaism (41%)
23. Seventh Day Adventist (40%)
24. Eastern Orthodox (28%)
25. Roman Catholic (28%)
26. Islam (25%)
27. Nontheist (24%)
Dead on accurate. I burst out laughing - I've been a Mahayana Buddhist for 17 years, was a monastic for 14 years.
I find it interesting that my views are closer to Hinduism than Theravada Buddhism, but my sect of Mahayana Buddhism has often been accused of being Hinduism by the Theravadas, so I think that's accurate as well.
The Theravadas do not accept the compassionate and broad view of the Mahayana and the teaching on Ultimate Truth as being the teaching of the Buddha, you see. There is a specific text on this called the 'Uttaratantra' that the Theravadas say "no way did the Buddha teach this" while the Mayahanists say "yes way." When you have a 3,000 year-old religion you get debates like this. Fortunately, Buddhists tend to not condemn the other schools as heresy so there have been relatively few atrocities (yes, there have been some) over these differences.
The Mahayanists tend to view the other forms of Buddhism as 'branches' of Buddhism, though there's a little smug superiority in the word 'Maha-yana' (strictly translated: High Path).
This was fun.
