Dear Friends,

This link will take you to a review article, by Mr. Lance Cousins,
of the published papers from the sympoium on "The Dating of the
Historical Buddha."

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgadkw/position/buddha/buddha.html


Best Wishes,
Paul O Cuana

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Lennart Lopin" <lenni_lop@...> wrote:
> Dear Everett and Terry,
>
>
> This compilation* you mention is probably the one i came across
too. There
> were several scientific (and varying) descriptions of how to
ascertain
> Buddhas historical dates. Thats why i was so surprised by Prof.
Gombrichs
> final answer on that subject. Is there maybe new (historical)
evidence?
>
> As to the explanation on paticcasamuppada i rather find it
difficult to give
> you an accurate "short" summary. But there are Ven. Nyananandas
Nibbana
> Sermons published by the Sri Lankan Dhamma Net:
>
> http://www.beyondthenet.net/calm/clm_main1.htm
>
> Especially sermon No 2 gives a vivid and deep explanation of
> paticcasamuppada - it might open ones eyes, so to say, if you have
been
> familiar only with the "usual" Buddhaghosa way of explaining the
dependant
> arising.
>
> mettaya,
>
> Lennart
>
> -----------------
> *probably this:
>
> When did the Buddha live? : the controversy on the dating of
the
> historical Buddha ; selected papers based on a symposium / held
under the
> auspices of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. Edited by Heinz
Bechert. -
> 1. ed. - Delhi : Sri Satguru Publications, 1995
> Schriftenreihe: Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica series ; no. 165
> ISBN: 81-7030469-5