Tag: Mahayana Buddhism vs Pali Canon

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Maṅgulitthi Sutta: Follow up

Will We End Up Like the Sorceress? Making Sense of Rituals, Mahayana Buddhism, and the Pali Canon In my previous post on the Maṅgulitthi Sutta, we looked at a rather sobering story. We learned that the Buddha didn’t encourage rituals or fortune-telling to solve daily problems. In fact, the professional sorceress […]