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

[jkirk]

I read it without any difficulty--was the message sent in HTML
maybe? 

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[mailto:buddha-l-bounces at mailman.swcp.com] On Behalf Of Bruce
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Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 2:49 AM
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Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Jayarava's Rave Jan 30th--Rethinking
Indian History

This response is so badly formatted, it is impossible to read.

At 02:47 AM 2/2/2009, you wrote:
>--- On Mon, 2/2/09, Bruce Burrill
><brburl at charter.net> wrote: > Gombrich, among others, has taken
this 
>old notion to task, > showing quite nicely that the Buddha had
good 
>knowledge of early > brahmanical literature, such as the
Brhadaranyaka 
>Up Well to be fair I think all that Gombrich has shown is that
the 
>Pāli texts show an awareness, and that the awareness is not of
the 
>"literature" per se (since they were oral in any case), but
simply that 
>