02-02-2007, 04:39 AM
ramana
his 2002 book is "the heathen...."
he has another one coming out soon.
talageri also has another book coming out as intimated by Dr. Elst on akanda..
i would expect that massa will have the finishing heart attack when these two things happen.
did you see how the greek critiques of homerian narratives were similar in kind to the christian reformulations of panchatantra? it is quite astonishing that european ethics is completely separate from that of asia. of course we can merely make a casual note of this fact or follow it up with hard hitting questions... the first one to come to mind is whether normative ethics is native to europe or was it a transformation of asian ethics. obviously there was a unique conflict in this part of the world that such normative ideologies did in fact spring up, and their roots are definitely traceable as prechristian. add to this the fact that the entire christian edifice is traceable to buddhism and zoroastrianism (as summarized by K. Venkat (see below) which did not register well with the natives, unlike in east asia, tibet, SEA, etc...
yes the entire western history is up for grabs.
the tapasya element is missing in the west/ME, as pointed out by kazanas, and where it is feebly present is almost certainly a direct indic import, as pointed out by mcevilley. in medical parlance, concrete thinking is a sign of schizophrenia, maybe a societal "double bind" situation that developed with "mixed signals" from too many diverse sources.
on top of all this kazanas takes mcevilley to task for denying the central role of india..
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->CLT is a very good model, and he presents a lot of evidence that
Christianity borrowed from Buddhism. Thundy disagrees with some of
CLT's linguistic interpretation but Thundy reaches the same larger
conclusion as CLT. In fact, I will categorically state that everything
positive in Christianity came from Buddhism, Mithraism etc while
antisemitism and parochial hate mongering alone is Christianity's
contribution.link
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his 2002 book is "the heathen...."
he has another one coming out soon.
talageri also has another book coming out as intimated by Dr. Elst on akanda..
i would expect that massa will have the finishing heart attack when these two things happen.
did you see how the greek critiques of homerian narratives were similar in kind to the christian reformulations of panchatantra? it is quite astonishing that european ethics is completely separate from that of asia. of course we can merely make a casual note of this fact or follow it up with hard hitting questions... the first one to come to mind is whether normative ethics is native to europe or was it a transformation of asian ethics. obviously there was a unique conflict in this part of the world that such normative ideologies did in fact spring up, and their roots are definitely traceable as prechristian. add to this the fact that the entire christian edifice is traceable to buddhism and zoroastrianism (as summarized by K. Venkat (see below) which did not register well with the natives, unlike in east asia, tibet, SEA, etc...
yes the entire western history is up for grabs.
the tapasya element is missing in the west/ME, as pointed out by kazanas, and where it is feebly present is almost certainly a direct indic import, as pointed out by mcevilley. in medical parlance, concrete thinking is a sign of schizophrenia, maybe a societal "double bind" situation that developed with "mixed signals" from too many diverse sources.
on top of all this kazanas takes mcevilley to task for denying the central role of india..
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->CLT is a very good model, and he presents a lot of evidence that
Christianity borrowed from Buddhism. Thundy disagrees with some of
CLT's linguistic interpretation but Thundy reaches the same larger
conclusion as CLT. In fact, I will categorically state that everything
positive in Christianity came from Buddhism, Mithraism etc while
antisemitism and parochial hate mongering alone is Christianity's
contribution.link
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->