I' VE COMMENTED BEFORE on the episode where the Buddha speaks to Bāhiya in a post entitled " In the Seen... ". He begins th...

Professor Richard Gombrich has been at the fore-front of pointing out that late Vedic beliefs are parodied in the Buddhist scriptures. [1] H...

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...

In discussing the time of the Buddha it is axiomatic, especially in Buddhist accounts, that Brahminism was the main religion of the Āryan p...

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...

In researching the background to Buddhist mantra I inevitably began to read about Vedic mantra. There is a lot more research on Vedic mantra...

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...

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 ...

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...