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Originally Posted by terrazoids
Heres something else...
Richard Gombrich has argued that the Buddha did not intend to do away with slavery:
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If that is indeed the case, then it reinforces why Buddhists are taught to question all teaching.
Times change. It took a long hard struggle to rid much of the world of slavery. Americans, for example, would rightly reject the concept of slavery now, even though it was practised in quite recent history compared to the time of Buddha.
Graham