I'm creating this poll because I think there is something to the accusation of the euphoric edgelords on this board that it's currently too focused on issues in Christianity, and I'd like to provide an alternative that's not their Bush-era movement-atheist preening.
For the unfamiliar.Personally, I have a mixed opinion of Dharmapala. I don't think very highly of the content of Buddhist Modernism because it strikes me as typifying unwarranted embarrassment about the religious content of Buddhism in favor of philosophical concepts that in many cases can be just as easily found elsewhere. I also definitely don't like the fact that his Buddhist revivalism and his Sinhalese nationalism were as closely intertwined as they were. However, I appreciate his positive articulation of South Asian culture in an environment of British political and cultural domination, and I think
within the context of Buddhism his attempt to transmute a "pan-Asian" religion into a truly "global" one was an admirable effort.
I think he's lean FF, but a few years ago I would have said lean HP and I reserve the right to change my opinion back to lean HP in the future.
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