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During the days of the Buddha himself he used to emphasize this point. One need not be a scholar and learn everything. Buddhism is not like studying a subject like mathematics where you have to learn all your theorems and different methods of working out the various types of problems. If you know the fundamentals, the basics, a scholarly detailed study is not an important precursor to pratice.

So out of this vast Buddhist culture, religion , or literature, or the vast body of experiences that come to us as Buddhism, each one of us would find that which is relevant to our life, to our type of problems.

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To me Buddhism is all this. It is the Buddha and his life ,the doctrine, the culture that evolves around it, and the ritual that is connected with it.

Once we take this to be one large body of human experiences, distilled in the finest form and presented to us in such a manner that each one of us could select that part which appeals to us, we begin to see the remarkable uniqueness of Buddhism.