SarathW wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 6:46 am
I don't think Ven. Sujato defines Early Buddhism properly.
Yes, I agree with you completely.
He fails to see and state clearly all extant “early Buddhist texts” EBTs (including Pali texts of Theravada) are in fact sectarian, not Early Buddhism.
Early Buddhism is
not entirely the teachings of the extant EBTs.
That is, the extant all canonical discourses in Pali, Chinese, Tibetan, and Sanskrit were
not entirely codified in the Buddha’s lifetime or shortly thereafter.