Oh , I get you now. I am sorry I did not read your previous post correctly
There is not a single line in the pali canon which explicitly suggests that Buddha rejected jati-vada or caste system . The only difference is that the shramana lifestyle is hailed upon as the best.
Buddha quotes:
Buddha--"The Kshatriya is the best of those among this folk
who put their trust in lineage" (ambatta sutta/tevijja sutta/assalayana sutta))
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/dob/dob-03tx.htm
Buddha-- "Monks , an enlightened person is born only out of two lineages-Brahmana and Kshatriya" (Lalitavistara sutra)
http://read.84000.co/browser/release...84-046-001.pdf
As of those racist quotes, they are not mine .They are from buddhist canon and I have provided the reference.
Buddha does not reject the Vedic canon as whole. Infact , he credits kapila, bharadwaja , vashishta , bhrigu and many other sages of the veda.
He opposes karmakanda or Vedic ritual system , but such an opposition is also present in the Upanishads.(Where jnana marga is deemed to be superior to karma marga) .The only Veda he explicitly rejects is atharva veda(Because of its spells)
Anyways, I agree that this cannot be called varnashrama. It is jati vada.
I am not attributing racism or casteism to vedic varnashrama dharma .I have always maintained that there is no casteism or racism in varnashrama system .It is my mistake that I have used the word varnashrama in place of caste system
I agree , but many Buddhist Brahmins proclaimed themselves "upholders of three vedas" . Some of them were Buddha's disciples , and Buddha did not have a problem with it.
In sanchi stupa inscriptions , "tripitaki" "trivedi" and chaturvedi" were the titles given to (Brahmin) Buddhist monks .
One might say that they don't really follow vedas , but even the kaula-shaivasiddantas and Agamas do not follow vedas and actually criticise them.
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