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

[Piya Tan]

A close study of such Suttas as the Amba.t.tha Sutta shows that the Buddha
or the compilers of the Sutta are very familiar with the earlly Upanishads:
see eg

http://dighanikaya.googlepages.com/21.3AmbatthaSd3piya.pdf

That the Buddha might not have been aware of the brahminical literature is
more of a colonial-era and early 20th century Buddhist scholarship (and
perghaps traduitional cutural Buddhism). So Jayarava's view might be a sort
of recidivism but we need more textual evidence here, not mere philosophical
conjectures.

Best wishes,

Piya Tan


On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:17 AM, jkirk <jkirk at spro.net> wrote:

>
> No wait--that is the same link I gave in my post--so which
> article do you refer to?
>
> Joanna
>
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> Hi Kitten,
>
> If you have some time, you may find this interesting - I also
> wonder what you think of this http://jayarava.blogspot.com/
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