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 1 1|       Buddhism as practice and mainstream Buddhism as a socio-historical
 2 1|     after study has shown that mainstream Buddhism, both lay and monastic,
 3 1| highest religious impulse, and mainstream Buddhism is no different.
 4 1|            a teaching that the mainstream, especially in Mahayana
 5 1|  measure of a person's worth. ~Mainstream Buddhism, because it can
 6 2|      should also be noted that mainstream Buddhism often discourages
 7 2|        some cases the state of mainstream Buddhism has become so detrimental
 8 2| prepared to break the bonds of mainstream Buddhism in their determination
 9 2|      practicing outside of the mainstream. If no such teachers exist,
10 2|   perspective of the practice, mainstream Buddhism serves the function
11 2|      the practice to leave the mainstream and to go into the forest,
12 2|        to stay in society, the mainstream meets their social/religious
13 2|       shaming or inspiring the mainstream at least temporarily into
14 2|        the dynamic of Buddhist mainstream and the practice, not necessarily
15 2|     Buddhism may take over the mainstream and inevitably lead it astray. ~