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Inaccurate teaching of Buddhism in public schools? (self.Buddhism)

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Hello everyone, my name is Vincent and I'm 15 years old. Last year, my history class was learning about Buddhism. Unfortunately, what my teacher taught was not accurate. It basically said we worship Buddha as a god. It wasn't her fault, she was just reading what the textbook said. Has anyone else noticed this in public schools?

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[–]bwainfweeze 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Unfortunately American history classes tend to make a caricature of every religion that isn't Catholicism. You are in good company.

[–]justinshmustinzen 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I would say that many do worship him as a god, but not as "God". Buddhism isn't a solid, unified religion so you will encounter many discrepancies among sects.

[–]Type_DXL 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I remember my public school history class taught Buddhism fairly poorly, stating how Buddhism was a monotheistic religion that believed in a single creator God.

Another class of mine taught that the book Siddhartha was an accurate depiction of Buddhism, despite the character Siddhartha realizing Brahman at the end and arriving at the conclusion that everything is relative to the observer.

[–]bunker_manShijimist [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

I'm not sure if you are trolling, but Buddhists do actually worship Buddha as a god. The only ones who don't are post secularists who don't take the historical content literally.