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Could it have been from here?
If folks haven’t checked out that site yet, it has lots of information about this whole situation, including
There are some similarities, but the list was definitely in a thread on this site.
Well, it has been signed already by Richard Hayes, whose doxastic minimalist approach to rebirth is exactly the same as Fronsdal’s. Being a non-believer in the afterlife is not incompatible with being a stickler for scholarly integrity.
If Fronsdal should not wish to sign, it would be more likely out of reluctance to bite the hand that feeds him: three of his own books have been published by Shambhala, most recently a new Dhamapada translation. On the other hand, if he does happen to sign, I expect it will carry considerable weight.
Great points, Venerable, I hope he does the right thing, as a Buddhist scholar and community leader. But it would be understandable if he did not.
Why is it that when supposedly rational Buddhists make arguments against rebirth they are so deeply irrational? (Continued in another thread)