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Article: Pretending to Be Buddhist and Christian: Thich Nhat Hanh and the Two Truths of Religious Identity.
- Article from:
- Buddhist-Christian Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
- Author:
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Nagarjuna replies: "The teaching by the Buddhas of the dharma has recourse to two truths: / The world-ensconced truth and the truth which is the highest sense. / Those who do not know the distribution (vibhagam) of the two kinds of truth I Do not know the profound 'point' (tattva) in the teaching of the Buddha. / The highest sense [of the truth] is not taught apart from practical behavior, / And without having understood the highest sense one cannot understand nirvana. / Emptiness, having been dimly perceived, utterly destroys the slow-witted. / It is like a snake wrongly grasped or [magical] knowledge incorrectly applied." [1]
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