OP wrote
Scholars agree: Therigatha and Theragatha are faked up?
Do they also agree that the entire Buddhist canon is faked up?
It had to, right? when you think of the method of transmission, considering the physical death of those monks
that remembered the most, loss of critical suttas, or the gradual death of memory of those that
remembered but lived to transmit the content of a semi lost memory. Imagine the politics too.
But
the miracle is in spite of what was lost in transmission, or the newly fabricated suttas that fed words into Buddha's mouth or fed words into Sariputta's mouth that contradicted original truths, and the politics,
the miracle is, for the percipient ones, who are able to brush the rubbish aside, Buddha still lives in the words of the buddhist canon, that is
good enough to lead us to the end of suffering. So does Kaccana and Sariputta live in these words, as satellites
of the Buddha.
- Likewise in the Therigatha and Theragatha, the spirit of those sought and found, lives
beautiful enough to inspire ones reading them.
With love