Category talk:Nikaya schools

Sorry for recategorizing the articles a bit too soon, didn't realize this was part of the deal until after its deletion is confirmed. I thought is was possible to rename categories instantly, and tried to work around it. This feature must have been removed. Greetings, Sacca 07:22, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

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I am sorry the result of 'no consensus' is that no action was undertaken. OK, but some solution still needs to be found. I think 'Nikaya schools' is quite loosely associated with its main article Nikaya Buddhism. It's about relating actual (and historical) schools with a term which the Tibetan Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman was looking for to use in a new book, to replace the offensive term Hinayana. These concepts of Hinayana and Nikaya Buddhism are actually very related, and part of the Mahayana and Vajrayana teachings.

I would say the term 'Nikaya schools' just applies the term Hinayana/Nikaya Buddhism to the actual schools, and can still be regarded as quite offensive. It's similar to categorizing the Mahayana and Vajrayana schools under the category category:Buddhist Hertical Teachings, and then replacing this name out of political correctness with category:Unoriginal Buddhist Teachings. No offence intended and the current Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhist schools are certainly to be recommended in many ways. But when one sees this issue from viewpoints such as the Orthodox Theravadin Kathavatthu scripture (part of the Abhidhammapitaka) it is so.

I think this issue is important, and I want to see it resolved. I made the category Early Buddhist Schools, also since the majority of the articles about the early buddhist schools were originally classified by me into the category Early Buddhist Schools. I would never classify those schools in the category 'Nikaya schools' because I think the application of the term 'Nikaya school' to particular early buddhist schools is inaccurate and offensive ideologically. That is, it is offensive according to the ideologies of those schools, and also offensive of those ideologies.

Greetings, Sacca 06:51, 8 September 2006 (UTC)