Primitive Buddhism
Learn Pali,
If you know any monks who studied in the Pali Buddhist scriptures, please let me know.
※I read books by Hajime Nakamura and Fumio Masutani.
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This is Akira Fujimoto
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Elder Albomulle Sumanasara
It's too famous,
What about Elder Albomulle Sumanasara of the Japan Terawada Buddhist Association?
I'm a Sri Lankan Terawada Buddhist monk, and I'm fluent in Japanese.
I think there are also parts in the sutras that are nuances of Pali that only elders who grew up in a cultural area close to India can understand.
There is no gap between primitive Buddhism and normal Buddhism in one's own Dharma
Elder Sumanasara himself said in his lectures within the Soto sect, but he doesn't think that there is such a thing as primitive Buddhism.
It was Buddhism that explained how humans are made.
If you look at it as if there are different things called normal Buddhism and primitive Buddhism, they are typified, idealized, and made into separate things in your head, so just be careful about that.