[Buddha-l] (no subject)

[Richard Hayes]

On Jul 3, 2011, at 21:07, Kdorje at aol.com wrote:

> Software has been developed that can determine from internal evidence  
> different authors of a text or texts attributed to one.

Software has been developed that can calculate various metrics based on highly questionable assumptions. It is a pretty good application of GIGO.

> It was used on the  
> Bible, and confirmed 90% of what had taken linguists decades to do.

Coming to a conclusion based on questionable assumptions that agrees with another conclusion based on the same questionable assumptions hardly counts as confirmation. 

> It can be  
> used with other languages, and might be interesting to see how many  
> Nagarjunas it shows, how many emanations of Maitreya gave teachings, etc.

And in what way would knowing how many Nāgārjunas there were help us understand what any of the writings attributed to Nāgārjuna mean?

Richard