From Lioness Roars to Purrs - A Review of The First Free Women by Matty Weingast (Therigatha)

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Just putting this link in here, to Bhante Sujatos illuminating and clear essay about what the Buddha says about counterfeit Dhamma

The Counterfeit of the True Teaching

The revelation of how Matty Weingast’s original poetry has been published and marketed by Shambhala as a translation of the Therigatha begs the question: well, what’s the problem? Is this actually an issue? After all, lots of people publish lots of things all the time and no-one really cares. Let’s hear what the Buddha had to say on the matter. In SN 16.13, Mahākassapa asks why there are now more training rules but fewer enlightened beings. The true teaching doesn’t disappear as long the cou…