[Buddha-l] samkhya, vedanta and buddhism

[F.K. Lehman (F.K.L. Chit Hlaing)]

I am relieved to read Joy Vriens on this matter; in fact India was in 
the last millennium BC (OK, BCE) in the midst of a welter of ideas 
floating in common amongst different cults, sects, schools, but not 
unique to any of them. And Budhist monks form one sect studied in 
schools of other sects and, no doubt, heard Jains and Hindu Vedantist 
and so on. From this mother-soup of ideas of course each  group 
choose something for especial elaboration, form which we falsely 
conclude that this was 'their' ideas.
-- 
F. K. Lehman (F. K. L. Chit Hlaing)
Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign