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 page 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 cannot now find out ak warder indian buddhism rd edition preface to st edition