Re: Advaitin vs. Buddhist takes on awareness/reality
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 4:21 pm
yes and like wise I can trot scholarship who like wise say the entire pali canon does not date back to the time of the Buddha,and that the majortiy if it under went numerous copiling and reworking and put into catagories ect...tiltbillings wrote:You did not address my point. I don't care what the "sects' say, but I do care about what carefully done scholarship points to. Tatahagatgarbha sutras are quite late in terms of Buddhism in India, certainly postdating them by a very long time in comparison to the Nikayas/Agamas. I'll be happy to trot the scholarship on this, but you first, given you are the one making a claim that has a rather poor handle on the issues around the issues of the dates of the texts.Judai wrote: . . .
on top of their views that almost the entire KN was created after Mahayana.
so whats your point??
its common knowledge that in the Gandhara scrolls BOTH the Pali canon and Mahayana suttas/sutras are represented.
as far as people dating a text to the time of the Buddha without a single shred of evidence well that isn't actually fact that is called opinion (which is in truth what the majority of scholars have done since they don't have any evidence to back up their dating claims)
but your more than welcome to provide ONE single carbon dated pali canon sutta that was carbon dated to the time of the Buddha.
also i'm making the claim that their is no evidence for such, YOU are making the claim there is evidence,it is actually up to YOU to provide actual PROOF(not conjecture) that the suttas OR sutras date back to the Buddha cause i'm saying NEITHER can PROVE to be dated back to the Buddha.