^ Done already.
But yeah, sorry 'bout that. (AV lied unforgivably about the Gods, and so I deliberately lightly egged him on for a bit... But shouldn't have done it at the expense of sacrificing bandwidth and the continuity of the thread/the seriousness of its topic.) Intend/hope to eventually delete my irrelevant and silly stuff.
[quote name='Bharatvarsh2' date='10 August 2010 - 04:25 AM' timestamp='1281394043' post='107831']That is like saying Panini is an Afghan as that idiot Amartya Sen tried to claim, simply absurd.[/quote]Hmmm, the mention of Afghanistan reminds me of a blatant error I made in #39, perhaps because I always forget Afghanistan:
In Afghanistan, Buddhism predictably attempted to subordinate the Hellenistic Gods to Buddhism. (For example, can even see this in the period of Greek-influenced Buddhist art, where Hellenistic Gods and heroes are misused.)
Of course, in reality - and this goes without saying - the GrecoRoman Gods have absolutely nothing to do with Buddhism, including how they are not in any way bodhisattvas or related to the Dhamma at all (<- all that is mere Buddhist invention to set itself up in regions influenced by Hellenismos, similar to what was done in the case of E and C Asian religions). The Gods of Hellenismos are not subject to Buddhist claims on them, let alone subordinate to Buddhist teachings and the Buddha. The Buddhists (and that includes any Greeks settled in Afghanistan who converted to Buddhism) do not know the GrecoRoman Gods. It is the Hellenes - those who never forsook their religion/Gods - who know their Gods.
But yeah, sorry 'bout that. (AV lied unforgivably about the Gods, and so I deliberately lightly egged him on for a bit... But shouldn't have done it at the expense of sacrificing bandwidth and the continuity of the thread/the seriousness of its topic.) Intend/hope to eventually delete my irrelevant and silly stuff.
[quote name='Bharatvarsh2' date='10 August 2010 - 04:25 AM' timestamp='1281394043' post='107831']That is like saying Panini is an Afghan as that idiot Amartya Sen tried to claim, simply absurd.[/quote]Hmmm, the mention of Afghanistan reminds me of a blatant error I made in #39, perhaps because I always forget Afghanistan:
Quote:Missionary religions are simply a nuisance. Further to the west, the GrecoRomans fortunately didn't take to Buddhism greatly (it was an alien religion in more ways than one) and stuck to their Gods like reliable, loyal, sensible people would. And so, one doesn't hear of Zeus and the other GR Gods being "bodhisattvas" - which of course they aren't and wouldn't ever be.The last bit of the highlighted line is correct, but not the start of the statement. I don't know how I managed to overlook something that was known even to me for a long time:
In Afghanistan, Buddhism predictably attempted to subordinate the Hellenistic Gods to Buddhism. (For example, can even see this in the period of Greek-influenced Buddhist art, where Hellenistic Gods and heroes are misused.)
Of course, in reality - and this goes without saying - the GrecoRoman Gods have absolutely nothing to do with Buddhism, including how they are not in any way bodhisattvas or related to the Dhamma at all (<- all that is mere Buddhist invention to set itself up in regions influenced by Hellenismos, similar to what was done in the case of E and C Asian religions). The Gods of Hellenismos are not subject to Buddhist claims on them, let alone subordinate to Buddhist teachings and the Buddha. The Buddhists (and that includes any Greeks settled in Afghanistan who converted to Buddhism) do not know the GrecoRoman Gods. It is the Hellenes - those who never forsook their religion/Gods - who know their Gods.