User talk:AliaGemma

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Editing Maitreya[edit]

No offense; it is difficult to say how much of these centralized doctrines you can reject before you may considered yourself a Buddhist, or a Christian. Now Maitreya is mentioned in the Pali canon, the canonical scriptures accepted by 'most' Buddhists, spoken of by the historical Buddha himself. To reject his claim is to me tantamount to rejecting Jesus's claim as messiah. To legitimize appears to be changing the dharma to some extent - what is taught should not be some post-modernist pastiche.

I put those words in as i thought the edits are by a vandal. This has happened before, as some edits were made by opposing fundamentalists. I was hasty but a general rule is if you revert a reasonable edit without proper explanation, and your edit is suspect, you can be suspected a vandal.

Also, note I did not put the word 'all'; 'Buddhists believe' is the general rule; consider yourself an exception. Call me low down, but if you check the edit history, there have been some very insiduous attritioning edits going on; I did what I thought was right in defending the facts. Cheers. Mandel 08:11, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Very glad. mandel 08:41, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Amen[edit]

[1] I wear my fedora year-round. :) EVula // talk // ☯ // 22:16, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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