(Continuation from yesterday)
Well, quietly speaking, the Buddhist scriptures are,
based on the teachings of Mr. Goudama Siddhartha,
to deify him, and to pull him into the scriptures,
further to extend to the world view after death
"Secondary creations"
They are "secondary creations" so, the numbers of them are as many booths as the comic market.
These are "sects".
Even if you mention only company booth classes, there are Sanronshu, Housoushu,Kegonshu, Ritsushu, kushashu, Zyouzyutsushu, TTendaishu, Shingonshu, Yuuzuunenbutsushu, Zyoudoshu, RInzaishu, Soutoushu, Zyoudoshinshu, Nichirenshu, Zishu, Fukeshu, Oubakushu, SHugenshu.
If you enter circle participation (national, regional, regionally indigenous, fundamentalist etc.), you will not be counted.
Therefore, the Buddhist scriptures, are
"Doujinshi(fan fiction)" which are huge amount of materials, and has been revising over the period of 2500 years, after Goudama Siddhartha's death.
I believe that this my understanding is no bad.
"Rite after death", for example, wake, main funeral, first seven days, nineteen days, N conclusion (N = 1, 3, .. 50), has been produced by Doujinshi
However, I do not intend to say, "This doujinshi .., correction, sectarian scriptures have no meaning at all".
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For example, I suppose
"If my daughter dies from an unfortunate accident or illness, can I be without doing anything?"
To my daughter who can not be revived, I think that what I am going to do as a parent, are
even if the possibility of being close to zero despairably, I am praying to cling about daughter's happy afterlife and reincarnation, and I bet on that.
almost every day, trying funerals of all religions all over the world, filling the funeral hall with flowers, continuing to chant infinitely words to pray for every and every happy death,
keep asking attendees to cling to attendees, saying "Do not forget her" not only for the first day, 1st anniversary, 3rd anniversary, 50th anniversary
Conversely, without the system of "funeral", parents who preceded their children may be crazy with sorrow.
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Doujinshi... correction, the Buddhist scriptures, are, even if they are secondary creations,
- during an enormous amount of time and observation of a huge number of people,
- to ease the living (x dead) human heart,
- the culmination of trial and error use case,
If I think, I can really understand exactly.
Buddhism's preaching "the world after death" is not "the world for the dead", but "the virtual world to make the heart of human calm". They are not for dead, but for living human beings, like "the Kingdom of Dreams and Magic".
(Although "the world after death" is also used as a "threatening system" of religion (I think that this is the main thing))
(To be continued)