Talk:Won Buddhism

Christianity?
I wasn't aware of the Christian influence. Can someone elaborate?

-- Its services are modeled after the Christian services and church organization, ie - inclusion of hymns, sermons, group activities, social bonding, etc.

This is incorrect and a misleading. The Christian influence is negligible. Previous scholars with little understanding made such comments but they have been debunked. The only influence is having services on Sunday, which is more a product of modernity and industrialization. The inclusion of hymns comes from several sources, one being other local new religious movements popular at the time. Some temples don't even sing. Buddhist have always had dharma talks and lectures by abbots and prominent monks, so it would be logical that they be included on the main weekly Sunday service due to people working during the week. I have no idea what this means by "social bonding," that isn't "Christian." "Group activities" are also not "Christian". I'm assuming this was an old text that was fortunately deleted.mindlessbuddha (talk) 00:30, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Categorization?
Should this really be filed under "Buddhism"? -- Visviva 14:04, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it is a well known New Buddhist movement from the early 1900s. it is cited in many prominent academic Buddhist journals and included in the Encyclopedia of Buddhism and the Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, both edited by Robert Buswell, one of the foremost academic experts on Buddhism. mindlessbuddha (talk) 00:20, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Neutral POV?
This article has a promotional tone for Won Buddhism. It doesn't seem neutral. 71.105.92.132 12 January 2014
 * I agree that many formulations do not seem neutral. Especially judging statements such as "Won Buddhism can be regarded as a new religion or as a form of Buddhism" should be changed to a neutral tone. --Kathedra87 (talk) 19:57, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, it reads like a publication or blog of this organization. It does not appear to comply with WP:NPOV.  JimRenge (talk) 10:40, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Nothing has changed after many years, so I deleted uncited information and information that read like a promotional post by the organization. I completely removed the doctrine section, as it doesn't comply at all and appeared to proselytize and not explanatory. Cleaned it up the rest after a little research. cleaned up the additional reading list format - which by the way are terrible sources. There are much better out there, but I don't have time to add them. I changed the name to the official way the order list the founders name. etc etc. This still needs a lot of work mindlessbuddha (talk) 00:17, 1 March 2019 (UTC)