[Buddha-l] persecuting Christians in Tang China

[Richard Hayes]

On Monday 02 October 2006 20:39, Richard Hayes wrote:

> The story I told my students was just about exactly the same one you just
> recounted.

Except that my source distinctly said that the persecutor was Empress Wu and 
that her victimswere Christians,not Buddhists.

> We probaby got if from the same source. It has been at least 
> fifteen years since I lectured on that topic, and my memory is fallible.

Actually, it was more like twenty-two years ago. My lecture notes from then 
are all hand-written. I didn't start using a computer to write out lectures 
until 1988. I'm not sure what sources I was using in those days. All I know 
is that I was not in the habit of making things up, so I'm sure the 
information (or misinformation) was taken (or plagiarized) from one of the 
books in the East Asian library at University of Toronto. Maybe some clever 
Klug who doesn't have a life can find the source I used and report back to 
us.

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico