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Moses was an Egyptian slave, and Judiasm didn't
exist yet. Jeezus. If you don't know your own history then how can you
comment on India's?
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 9:19
AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Buddha
--- In [email protected],
Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]...> wrote:
>
> On Mar 12, 2005, at 8:45 AM, off_world_beings wrote:
>
>
> and that ayurved and sthapatyaved
> > and the six systems of
Indian philosphy are a part of what is
> > generally termed a
Vedic tradition.....
>
> First off, I hope you realize that there
are several groupings of
the
> Six Darshanas.
>
> You
are aware that the original word for "veda" was
"agama"?
Lol, then please define what you consider 'Vedic'
. Be precise
please. I guess the word 'agni' is not Vedic by your
extremist view.
Thats like saying Moses was not a Jew. Of course he
wasn't. There
were all sorts of other influences on him. but no-one would
say he
was not Jewish.
>
> > Saying that early
Buddhism was not Vedic, is like saying that
> > Protestantism is not
Christianity.
>
> I'd tend to agree with the Manimekhalai (a
Dravidian work) which
(if
> you feel a need to attribute a prior
movement to the Dharma)
states
> that Buddhism is derived from
Jainism. It also gives, from the
> pre-Vedic perspective, where these
six darshanas come from. ALL of
the
> six prophets of these
darshanas existed *before the writing of
> Sanskrit.* All of
them.
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