Ven. Sujato's idea that subversion by Trojan Horses does not exist in the world sounded very naïve. This said, I also sense Buddhaghosa was not a Brahmin Trojan Horse because the ideas in the Visuddhamagga represent the evolution of Buddhist thought as shown in Jataka, Abhidhamma, Agama (with its various Anapanasati discourses etc).
What I found well spoken by Sujato was from 55:30: "
He would be very reluctant to give his personal opinions about things. This was not his job. His job was to translate translate & present the Commentaries as he had gathered them. Sometimes he would present different points of view and would just present those different points of view... "
It appears Sujato's idea above is similar to my own; including with the Visuddhimagga. When I read parts of the Visuddhimagga, I gained the impression there were varied doctrines on the same subject matter and that the Visuddhimagga was more like an "encyclopedia" of different ideas rather than one body of uniform doctrine.
