[Buddha-l] [Fwd: PEACE Quote]

[Michael Paris]

Richard Hayes wrote:
> The Buddhist canon would have been a lot smaller if people had not
> falsely attributed their ideas to the Buddha. As Dharmakirti pointed
> out, "one of the hazards of being famous for being wise is that so many
> fools attribute their ideas to you that you cease to be famous for being
> wise."

Is there any way of knowing, more or less of course, what the Buddha did 
say?

The Jesus Seminar seems to have had fair success in determining Jesus' 
words; would anything similar be possible in Buddhism? Or perhaps it 
has, and I'm not aware.


Michael