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  1. Agnimitra

    Do you know of any online source to read the Mulasarvastivada? Buddhist texts are the most...

    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?
  2. Agnimitra

    I need to know this as I want to know the class to which this belongs,will you help me out...

    I need to know this as I want to know the class to which this belongs,will you help me out? http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe13/index.htm
  3. Agnimitra

    Hey there, I am having confusion about the Vinaya pitaka and their classification. It is a...

    Hey there, 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...
  4. Agnimitra

    Has Buddhism influenced Christianity ?

    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...
  5. Agnimitra

    Has Buddhism influenced Christianity ?

    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...
  6. Agnimitra

    Can you mingle Hinduism with Christianity?

    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...
  7. Agnimitra

    Has Buddhism influenced Christianity ?

    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.
  8. Agnimitra

    Has Buddhism influenced Christianity ?

    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...
  9. Agnimitra

    Can the teachings of Jesus transform Jews?

    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...
  10. Agnimitra

    Has Buddhism influenced Christianity ?

    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...
  11. Agnimitra

    How Do You Define a "God"?

    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.
  12. Agnimitra

    Gods You'd Never Worship

    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...
  13. Agnimitra

    How Do You Define a "God"?

    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...
  14. Agnimitra

    Panentheism: What is more than the universe?

    "And yet I exist supporting this universe with a fragment of my infinite self" Bhagavad Gita :yes:
  15. Agnimitra

    What is Dharma?

    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...
  16. Agnimitra

    Has Buddhism influenced Christianity ?

    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...
  17. Agnimitra

    Sunyata/Sunnata and Asat.

    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........
  18. Agnimitra

    Has Buddhism influenced Christianity ?

    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...
  19. Agnimitra

    Has Buddhism influenced Christianity ?

    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...
  20. Agnimitra

    Has Buddhism influenced Christianity ?

    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...
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