Monastic temples? Check. A head of the religion? Check. Women discrimination? Check It may not be that all buddhists are religious, but there definitely are buddhist religions.
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Buddhism doesn't have "a" head of the religion. Some branches do, but not Buddhism as a whole.
aug 25, 2025, 10:11 pm • 3 0 • view
So, same as christianity?
aug 25, 2025, 10:13 pm • 4 0 • view
Maybe more like Sunni Islam? O Sufism? Judaism?
aug 25, 2025, 10:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Im not familiar enough with Islam or Sufism to say. Judaism is even more decentralized.
aug 25, 2025, 10:16 pm • 2 0 • view
I don't know. Judaism has a clear job description for their priests.
aug 25, 2025, 10:20 pm • 1 0 • view
These days it’s pretty much “be careful around cemeteries, carry this thing on Simchat Torah, and that’s about it. Do not rely on Christian education resources about Jews to understand Jews. You are not getting it from an honest broker.
aug 27, 2025, 8:48 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm not interested in the actual structure of judaism. I'm pointing out that buddism is very much a religion, even in the most hierarquical ways possible. It's not mostly thinking.
aug 27, 2025, 10:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Judaism hasn't had any Priests in about 2000 years, and even when we did the High Priest wasn't "the" head of the religion.
aug 25, 2025, 10:22 pm • 5 0 • view
So what does a Rabbi do?
aug 25, 2025, 10:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Is it not a priestly figure? In the manner of a catholic priest, or an immam?
aug 25, 2025, 11:24 pm • 0 0 • view
A Rabbi teaches and leads services in a post-Temple age, but is a different office from Kohen, who were Priests. Some of an Imam's office maps, but also a Mullah. Catholic Priesthood doesnt really have a Jewish equivalent.
aug 25, 2025, 11:30 pm • 2 0 • view
Point being, there's a clear and differentiated route for those who are "teachers" of the religious doctrine. I'm don't know if that is the same for buddism. There's probably and equivalent.
aug 25, 2025, 11:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Pretty much.
aug 25, 2025, 10:14 pm • 2 0 • view