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Buddha Myth
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A blog that discusses the history of Buddhism and historicity of Buddha; research into all material aspects of Buddhism, such as temples, images, and relics.
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THE TRAVELS OF XUANZANG, 629--645 CE
"Around his dreams the dead leaves fall;Calm as the starred chrysanthemumHe notes the season glories come,And reads the books that never pall."L. Cranmer-Byng.Map shows route taken by Xuanzang, starting from Xian, (ancient Ch'ang An). Click to enlarg...
AN 18th CENTURY BUDDHIST MIND
The shrine of the Buddha's footprint, Pra Puttabat, Saraburi, Thailand.Buddhist monks in 18th century Siam thought that lunar eclipses were caused by a dragon swollowing the moon and that, indeed, the world was flat. Hence the miracles associated wi...
WAS BUDDHA HISTORICAL?
Under Construction Either the tripitaka is just an ordinary book written by mortals, or it isn’t; either Buddha was divine, or he was not. If the tripitaka was an ordinary book, and Buddha an ordinary man, the basic doctrine of Buddhism is false an...
WAS BUDDHA A SCYTHIAN?
Since the 19th century certain Buddhologists and historians have hypothesized that Buddha was a member of the Scythian steppe nomads who eventually reached northwest India and founded an empire there in the first century BCE. I believe that the evide...
WHO WERE THE SAKAS?
"Behold, he shall come up like clouds,And his chariots like a whirlwind.His horses are swifter than eagles.Woe to us, for we are plundered!" Thus prophesized Jeremiah of Judea around 627 BCE (Jeremiah, iv, 13). In about 625 BCE the horsemen known to ...
THE HYPOTHESIS
The accumulation of data is of course a necessary first step and includes the deriving of fresh data from new sources, but an advance in knowledge is dependent on using the data to present new formulations. Romila Thapar Seated Buddha (Flickr photo)P...
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