Marquis de Sade versus the Buddha
A philosophical dialogue, critiquing sadism and Buddhism
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12 min readNov 23, 2019
GAUTAMA BUDDHA: If I’m not mistaken, you’re known as something of a libertine.
MARQUIS DE SADE: Well, in chanting their mantras to banish me, cowards and simpletons who recoil from the logic of my blasphemies would call me the libertine, the sadist and pleasure-seeker par excellence…
