07-16-2009, 12:04 AM
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Maurya-Greek synchronicity was essential to this project to show non-normative Buddhism as variant and derivative of normative Christianity. And AIT was necessary to show the same with respect to Hinduism.
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I think you have arrived at fundamental problem of colonial interpretation of Hindu history. Eventhough Buddhism is before Christianism. Karen Armstrong says all these were founded in the Axis age from 500 BC to 100 AD.
Maurya-Greek synchronicity was essential to this project to show non-normative Buddhism as variant and derivative of normative Christianity. And AIT was necessary to show the same with respect to Hinduism.
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I think you have arrived at fundamental problem of colonial interpretation of Hindu history. Eventhough Buddhism is before Christianism. Karen Armstrong says all these were founded in the Axis age from 500 BC to 100 AD.