Do you know of any online source to read the Mulasarvastivada? Buddhist texts are the most notoriously complicated and trying to understand their branchings is giving me a headache. Is there anyone in this forum with knowledge of scriptural history?
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I am having confusion about the Vinaya pitaka and their classification. It is a single group of writings right? Different sects just translated them and started calling them by different names like "Theravada Vinaya" , Mahasangika vinaya, sarvastivada etc right?Or are they independent...
I can believe in Dwarka --because its existence has been proven by archaeology and its location and dating is corroborated in the Mahabharata and Bhagavata.We have an accord between literature and science here.
My belief in Krishna or the lack thereof does not influence my perspective of...
It is an accepted fact among scholars that the authors of the four gospels had direct access to a common text called "Q"
The language or origin or contents of the text is unknown and for centuries open to speculation.
The Christian Lindtner theory posits or rather proves without any evidence...
I would humbly request that such a volatile attempt not be made, because already you can see people trying to do it.....with ulterior motives. And the result is a sad vilification of the Vedic culture by a disastrous and mindless missionary zeal.
Villagers threatened to destroy this statue...
I have read the book "Jesus lived in India"
It offers absolutely no proof for its tall claims. What you are saying cannot be backed by any literary or archaeological evidence.
It is forceful how almost every episode in Jesus' life evokes a prototype from the Lotus sutra.
Even the centurion....I read about it from one of Christian Lindtner's articles
Capernaum was Kapilavastu - Kingdom of Gods
Capernaum (Kapernaoum, Kapharnaoum) and the synagoge in that town...
I dont think the Jews need any "transformation" whatever that means. They are probably better off without Christ. That would entail a dilution of their culture with Buddhist influence, though the latter's ethics are more liberal. They have preserved their ancient tradition against all odds and...
Mark 6:39-40. No satisfactory explanation for the two Greek expressions symposia symposia, “companies companies”, and prasiai prasiai, “groups groups”, has ever been offered. Both are translations of the frequent samghât samgham pûgât pûgam, “from group to group...
Thats pretty simplistic wouldn't you say?
There are a lot of logical questions which such a rigorless position will raise. And they cannot be answered by faithful thinking.
Any God who prefers one religion over another, who would pick one people over another as his chosen ones, who is bothered by petty human matters , whose mood changes, whose will wavers at the instance of prayer, who is thirsty for worship,who judges good and evil,who does miracles when the...
A mythical being springing from human fears and insufficiency that infracts all laws of logic with illusory attributes and effects,supposedly and especially localized in a fairy land called paradise and is maintained in discourse and deliberation by the ambivalence of the greater part of...
Dharma equates well with institutional religion, which is a quest for value (Dharma Jijnasa_).It may be defined as the compendium of those human pursuits that bears on duties of life, , social relationships, customs , mythology, rituals etc.
As opposed to this is Tattva Jijnasa, philosophical...
Moving on to the next phase of life,adolescence....
Young Buddha is revered by an old wise man, Asita, like Jesus was revered by Symeon. In the Gospel according to Luke (2:25-34) we read:
" there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout and it was...
If Nirvana is not nothingness but rather a positive category, a fullness .....then there is no essential difference between Advaitha and Baudha philosophy.
A few Buddhist scholars I know suggested so........
I think you are looking for the wrong kind of connection. Why do you aimlessly state the obvious? Aramaic and Sanskrit are two unrelated languages. Yes, I know.But their inter-relation is not a pre-requisite for proving Buddhist influence, as there never was an Aramaic intermediate NT text , nor...
Dr. Lindtner points out many number equivalences behind key terms in both faiths.
Here are a few;(from the same source)
Kayam-Tathagata = 888
Jesus = 888
Maitreya=666
Pundarika=666(Ptolemy=666, the Ptolemy Philadelphius who attempted to fuse Judaism and Greek religion with Buddhism.)
Sakyamuni...
The Evangelists dont seem to have gone that deep. They seem more interested in the sound and sense.
Maya/Miryam is not the only imitation
Triratna/Trinity (Sanga, dharma and Buddha)
Simon Peter/Sari Putra
Stavron/Vastrani-----Stavron is the Greek word for cross. Vesture and Vest are derived...