[Buddha-l] The Pali-Tibet Connection

Richard Hayes rhayes at unm.edu
Tue Sep 29 02:34:41 MDT 2009


On Sep 29, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Weng-Fai Wong wrote:

> I don't that the Kalama Sutta is in the Chinese Agama also. May be  
> it was a
> later composition that post-dated the Sanskrit Agamas?

Given the amount of attention it (or at least one paragraph of it) has  
received from Western fans of Buddhism, I am thinking the Kalama Sutta  
(as it is often erroneously called) may have been written in Scotland  
in the late 18th century and then translated into Pali.

Richard



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