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I see no mention of the lesser and greater vehicles of buddhism.
It is my understanding, though wikipedia obfuscates the issue, that the greater vehicle rejects supernatural beliefs and treats those beliefs as allegorical. Thus reincarnation is merely the understanding that a mind changes with new experience, creating a new person. Similarly the demons of the lesser vehicle are the anthropomorphized irrational beliefs of the observer.
Unfortunately this is the result of the path I took in this post.
I did not do an in depth analysis of rationality within Buddhism, which might have been interesting to a Buddhist audience, and I did not extract the elements of Buddhism that might aid rational thought, which might have been interesting to the general LW audience.
The result is that the feedback has been more valuable to me than the post was to this audience. I paid for this in karma, which seems fair.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think you have the greater (Mahayana) and lesser (Hinayana) vehicles mixed up.
The grandparent sounds a bit wooly, but I think on the whole you're correct.