Bouddhisme ancien (French Wikipedia)

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"I find myself unable to accept many of the findings of the modern [researchers], any more than I could accept the traditions of the schools. It seems to me that much of the modern work, while it has accomplished a great deal, is hampered by the problems that bedevil Buddhist studies in general: uncritical acceptance of textual evidence over archeological findings; bias in favour of either the southern or the northern traditions; reliance on inaccurate or mistaken readings from secondary works and translations; simplistic and unrealistic notions of religious life in general and monastic life in particular; lack of understanding of the Vinaya; backreading of later situations into earlier times; and perhaps most importantly, a lack of appreciation of myth, so that 'historical' information is divorced from the mythic context that gave it meaning." Bhikku Sujato, Sects & Sectarianism: The Origins of Buddhist Schools, 2006. P. 4. (Lire en ligne - consulté le 27 février 2020)