[Buddha-l] A Different Take on Devadatta

[slachs at att.net]

 Hi katherine,

Thanks for the article. I enjoy these kinds of cultural explanations that seem to make sense explaining a religious story if only people would step and put events in a larger culture.

I was reading a dissertation today and the author, Dan Getz, was explaining a possible cause for not mentioning a name as it was the custom at the time (Five Dynastys period in China) to put two names together and this person would have been a third so he was not mentioned.  

Thanks for the article,

Stuart

  -------------- Original message from Katherine Masis <twin_oceans at yahoo.com>: --------------

I found an old 1923 article on the Web with a totally different take on Devadatta.  The author claims that Devadatta's insults and stone-throwing were not necessarily out of hate or spite, but "an echo of the friendly and 
> ceremonial antagonism of cross cousins."
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> Take a look:
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> http://buddhism.lib.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-ENG/hocbud.htm
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> Katherine Masís
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