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Vedic Studies
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Vedic Studies
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23 September 2011
In My Eye
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I' VE COMMENTED BEFORE on the episode where the Buddha speaks to Bāhiya in a post entitled " In the Seen... ". He begins th...
20 August 2010
A Parody of Vedic Belief
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Professor Richard Gombrich has been at the fore-front of pointing out that late Vedic beliefs are parodied in the Buddhist scriptures. [1] H...
09 October 2009
Dharma - early history
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This is the first of a series of three essays in which I will attempt to summarise recent research on the word dharma (Pāli dhamma). Perhaps...
30 January 2009
Rethinking Indian History
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In discussing the time of the Buddha it is axiomatic, especially in Buddhist accounts, that Brahminism was the main religion of the Āryan p...
12 December 2008
The spiritual life or Brahmacarya
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Linguists study language in one of two basic ways. They look at language through time, how it changes, and the processes that drive and info...
04 July 2008
Non-lexical utterances, stobhas, and mantra
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In researching the background to Buddhist mantra I inevitably began to read about Vedic mantra. There is a lot more research on Vedic mantra...
27 June 2008
Mantra, Magic, and Interconnectedness.
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At the heart of the practice of mantra is the idea that everything is interconnected. Although the idea is not apparent in early Buddhist te...
16 May 2008
Playing with Fire
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I've made several references over the last year and a half to the Numata lectures by Professor Richard Gombrich in 2006. These are in ...
29 June 2007
Indra in the Writings of Kukai
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In this article I want to look at some associations with the Vedic god Indra which have found their way into Buddhism. Indra, under the name...
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