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

[Jayarava]

--- On Mon, 2/2/09, Piya Tan <dharmafarer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Hi Piya,

Thanks for this. I'll be even more interested to read your opinions when you have read the blog post under discussion, or, better, Bronkhorst book. 

Jayarava