What is wrong with Buddhism? Lots. Certainly in the west you have the situation where it is a bit like a game of chinese whispers. A tells something to B, who tells it to C who tells it to D and by the time it gets back to A it has changed beyond all recognition. To paraphrase Douglas Adams "Buddha was just this guy, you know". It was just someone who said some clever stuff. It could have been B it could have been his friend, it could have been Batman. It doesn't really matter.
They said something, eventually some other people wrote down their interpretations of it and eventually it got translated into dozens of different languages. Things got changed at each step of the process. Everyone had their own agenda and the world two thousand years ago is a very different place. What was a good analogy back then probably doesn't make much sense these days. It is a bit like shakespeare. Good stories but you try sitting through an authentic production. The language is so different to to modern English that you would need a translation from (old) English to (modern) English to make any sense of it, let alone get the jokes.
They said something, eventually some other people wrote down their interpretations of it and eventually it got translated into dozens of different languages. Things got changed at each step of the process. Everyone had their own agenda and the world two thousand years ago is a very different place. What was a good analogy back then probably doesn't make much sense these days. It is a bit like shakespeare. Good stories but you try sitting through an authentic production. The language is so different to to modern English that you would need a translation from (old) English to (modern) English to make any sense of it, let alone get the jokes.
