Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper argues that research in Buddhism must have a soteriological focus. To demonstrate this, an overview of the Cūḷamālunkya Sutta (MN 63) is presented. This sutta consists of a conversation between the Buddha and one of his students, and it reveals that Buddhism’s topics of inquiry must address how one can be free from suffering. The implication of this conversation – the soteriological focus – seems to suggest that Buddhist research excludes topics in metaphysics, such as addressing the nature of the universe (if it has a beginning or an end, if it is finite or infinite, and so forth), or the nature of the self. Soteriology seems to suggest that ethics is the only focus of research in Buddhism; that is, to know how to be free from suffering, one must study how one should live and conduct oneself. Though this appears to be the case, this paper will show that research in Buddhism is not limited in this manner. Instead of excluding metaphysical research entirely, Buddhism instead excludes research that is done for its own sake; topics must therefore be researched for the sake of soteriology. Thus, the research implication of the Cūḷamālunkya Sutta is not that certain topics are unable to be researched, but rather that a qualification of soteriology is attached to topics of research.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it