Talk:Basic points unifying Theravāda and Mahāyāna

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Proposal: It would be appropriate to list all the early Buddhist texts that are recognized as orthodox by all the main schools within both the Theravada and Mahayana traditions. The basic points currently listed are (or can be) derived from these common texts.--Tediouspedant (talk) 14:34, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

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Buddhist ecumenical statement created in 1967
The link to the term ecumenical refers to ecumenism as a Christian movement, while this article is about a Buddhist statement.

Here are three short paragraphs from the actual statement from the Wikipedia article on ecumenism:

Ecumenism refers to efforts by Christians of different church traditions to develop closer relationships and better understandings. The term is also often used to refer to efforts towards the visible and organic unity of different Christian churches in some form.

The adjective ecumenical can also be applied to any interdenominational initiative that encourages greater cooperation among Christians and their churches, whether or not the specific aim of that effort is full, visible unity.

The terms ecumenism and ecumenical come from the Greek οἰκουμένη (oikoumene), which means "the whole inhabited world", and was historically used with specific reference to the Roman Empire. The ecumenical vision comprises both the search for the visible unity of the Church (Ephesians 4:3) and the "whole inhabited earth" (Matthew 24:14) as the concern of all Christians.

I suggest that we search for a different term and POSSIBLY (I like this idea) claim that Buddhism 'ecumenism' is parallel to or analogous to Christian 'ecumenism' (which indeed, refers to a one world movement of globalism and religious response to globalism. It may be possible to refer to:


 * post-traditional form of humanism
 * post-cultural restatement of a unifying spiritual tradition
 * a spiritually unifying tradition that is both ethical and post-religious

IMO, each of these possible directions for developing this article seems problematic and likely to raise further questions about the encyclopedia. MaynardClark (talk) 12:50, 28 October 2016 (UTC)