[Buddha-l] Jayarava's Rave Jan 30th--Rethinking Indian History

[Stuart Lachs]

Hi Kitten,

If you have some time, you may find this interesting - I also wonder what 
you think of this
http://jayarava.blogspot.com/
>
> Citing some recently published sources, Jayrava presents us with
> a view of the religious cultures in Maagadha around 500BCE that I
> found rewarding because he produces a more creditable version of
> the socio-cultural context in those days vis a vis relevant
> texts, like the Brhadaranyaka Up. and the Pali suttas. The essay
> also proposes that perhaps the Buddha wasn't acquainted with
> so-called Brahminical texts (such as upanishads), and that the
> ideas hitherto thought to have been imported by
> Brahmins--rebirth, karma and aatman--were ideas likely being
> circulated by Aajivikas and Jains.  "Recently scholars have
> proposed a different model of India in the 5th century BCE in
> which the Brahmins were not dominant in the Magadha region, and
> in fact did not become so until around the beginning of the
> common era."
> It's an interesting read, and now I'd sure like to get those
> books, especially Bronkhorst, but costs require using ILL.
>
> Joanna K.
>
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