Episode 19: Original Buddhism, Changing Buddhism

What is "original Buddhism?" In the absence of texts from the Buddha's times, how can we know what the Buddha really taught? And how does the corpus of later texts help us understand Buddhism?
Treeleaf Zendo (https://www.treeleaf.org)
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World (https://amzn.to/39EQqLg)
Stephen Batchelor (https://www.stephenbatchelor.org/index.php/en/)
The Circle of the Way: A Concise History of Zen from the Buddha to the Modern World (https://amzn.to/2ud7QQ7)
Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism (https://serval.unil.ch/resource/serval:BIB_0AE49B543099.P001/REF.pdf)
Theme music by Kiku Day (http://www.kikuday.com).
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