Scholarly Critisism I removed this section because it seemed to have no point and contained no useful information It also lacked neutrality Other scholars take a skeptical attitude The original teachings of the historical Buddha are extremely difficult if not impossible to recover or reconstruct Lopez Buddhism in Practice Princeton University Press 1995 page 4 This attitude has been criticized by other scholars to be one of extreme caution in the name of that extreme caution which some suppose to be the hallmark of the sound academic some scholars have claimed that we do not know what the Buddha taught and can not now find out AK Warder Indian Buddhism 1999 3rd edition preface to 1st edition