[Buddha-l] Sanskrit speaking Buddha

Richard P. Hayes rhayes at unm.edu
Fri Nov 18 08:29:38 MST 2005


On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 01:06 -0600, Bruce Burrill wrote:

> I just read something by Namdrol (Malcolm Smith), a former Buddha-l-oid:
> 
>  >There is every reason to beleive that the Buddha spoke Sanskrit, 
> and was educated in Sanskrit.
> 
> And, of course, taught in Sanskrit....
> 
> Thoughts on this? 

There is no reason to believe he knew Sanskrit. Now if you can find
someone foolish enough to say there is some reason to believe the Buddha
knew Sanskrit, you'd have a middle path between Malcolm's "every reason"
and my "no reason."

-- 
Richard



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