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I don’t consider Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism to be a legitimate school of Buddhism, as per Venerable Master Xiao Pingshi’s exposé.
The leader of that disrespectful Taiwanese Buddhist cult is critical of Vajrayāna and you drank the kool-aid. Stupid.
I think name-calling is hardly appropriate on a Buddhist forum. Please reconsider.
While dismissing probably the most authentic sect in all of buddhism. Tibetan buddhism is probably the only reason we retained most of the original texts and teachings. The original texts in india were destroyed by invaders but the tibetan ones remained because they were thankfully translated before that happened.
Apparently Xiao Pingshi attempts to establish the validity of his teachings by attacking most Buddhist systems.
You do realize you’re violating the rules of this subreddit by attacking Vajrayāna?
I think name-calling is hardly appropriate on a Buddhist forum. Please reconsider.
I understand it’s frustrating to see, and that you want to discourage this kind of post for the sake of others. At the same time, Another person’s wrong actions do not justify unkind speech.
u/xabir has written about this cult:
https://www.awakeningtoreality.com/2022/08/a-critique-of-xiao-ping-shi.html?m=1
I don’t know who “xabir” is nor why they’d have any authority over a Venerable.
I will definitely never call Xiao Ping Shi, a layperson (non monastic) who is also a holder of many false and deviants views, as a venerable.
After seeing your comment, I have decided to publish the full translation of the text from the very learnt, awakened and reputable monastic Mahayana Venerable Da Zhao's critique of Xiao Ping Shi here (originally mentioned in brief in the link u/krodha posted above): https://www.awakeningtoreality.com/2024/01/heretical-views-outside-path-xiao.html Heretical Views Outside the Path - Xiao Pingshi's "God-Making Movement" - article by Ven. Da Zhao
Essentially, Venerable Da Zhao cites and criticizes Xiao Ping Shi's view as reifying the eighth consciousness into the Hindu Atman or True Self, as the ultimately existing ontological source and substratum of all phenomena, no different from Advaita Vedanta, Samkhya, etc. He (Xiao Pingshi) then made many slanderous claims about other Buddhist masters in various traditions, including but not limited to Vajrayana, deifies himself, and makes wild claims as to teaching the only true Buddhism in Taiwan and the best dharma around the world.
Heretical Views Outside the Path - Xiao Pingshi's "God-Making Movement"
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