[Buddha-l] Remaining in Samsara

[Dmytro O. Ivakhnenko]

Dear Chris and all the honorable subscribers,

> This connection is widely known about - IMO much of the Nath tradition 
> arose from  Buddhist tantrism not the other way round. The common 
> figures are comparitively late in the enumerations of Buddhist teachers 
> but near the beginning of the lineages in the Nath Tradition.

The first Theravadan text on Bodhisattva's path, A Treatise on the 
Paramis, by Acariya Dhammapala, borrows from Bodhisattvabhuumi, the 
fifteenth chapter of the Yogaacaarabhuumi, a voluminous text of the 
Yogaacaara school ascribed to Maitreya-naatha, the teacher of Asanga.

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bodhi/wheel409.html
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/37687/Asanga
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitreya-n%C4%81tha

There's again a Nath trace.

Best regards, Dmytro

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