Oh I know, I was just adding more ammunition against the naga realm claim and all that. And it's impossible that he came back since it's parnibbana and all.zan wrote: ↑Thu Jan 14, 2021 10:39 pm
I don't disagree with you, nor was I saying the teaching was incomplete before. I was saying these later teachings are invalid by the standards you've quoted. I was not saying the teachings that came before were incomplete. So, the teachings being already complete at the time of the Buddha's parinibbana, nothing is lost by rejecting teachings found in the naga realm hundreds of years later, especially when this rejection is based on the Buddha's specific instructions.
In general, I highly doubt that there can be a missing unique teaching "out there", as even the Ghandharan fragments are pretty aligned with the pali suttas. There's just so much repetition in the pali canon between all the nikayas, that it's pretty hard to find something new or original for one who has thoroughly studied the texts.
