![]() ![]() This is a much more careful and satisfying study. There is a chapter ‘Of Theras and Theris: Visions of Liberation in Early Buddhist Tradition’ in Kumkum Roy’s collection of essays The Power of Gender and the Gender of Power: Explorations in Early Indian History. commentaries weren’t committed to writing in 500 CE, they were already written.the republics were hardly “egalitarian”, they were governed by aristocracies.Buddhism didn’t arise “among republics”, it arose in a region where there were both republics and monarchies. ![]() verses aren’t recast to fit the audience: that’s what a commentary is for.I mean, many of the gathas are just a single verse: how long do they imagine people were working on one verse?.the verses weren’t “reworked” over five centuries: they were collected over about two (only a few are in the late stratum).there’s no relation between the time of writing and the time of fixing the text: this is 100% modern cultural imposition.Pali canon was committed to writing closer to 20BCE, not 80. ![]()
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