Ananda is a great example of the scapegoat CF Girard and the need for creating a historical one
Why do some religions have monks or monasteries but others do not? Buddhism has them BC. Merit/alms exchange, and I guess people want to be monks understandably. Why do other religions have or lack them?
The existential inertia question is similar to the Buddhist position of all things having food that sustains them
- yes, actually the Jesuit desideri believed the two things stopping conversions from Tibetan Buddhism to Catholicism were the belief in emptiness and beginninglessness/rebirth. No grounds no ends. This was too rationalist of course, autism to autism communication with the gelugs.
How do Buddhist views about ignorance being in some sense the root of violence and injustice square with structural realism or other kinds of realism in IR?
- well personal realists like morgenthau is straightforward. buddhism says cut out animus dominandi. Structural realists have a much bigger disagreement with the anarchic international system + risk of neighbours wanting to dominate leading to power seeking. This doesn’t necessarily explain """greedy""" corporations, which my caricature of these buddhists lump together with states as bad collective actors.
How to do poka-yoke for enlightenment?
The Buddha and Muhammed and maybe Confucius? Are very different to Jesus in that they founded and led large organisations before they died.