--- "Dimitry A. Ivakhnenko (Äìèòðèé Àëåêñååâè÷
Èâàõíåíêî)" <koleso@...> skrev:

>
> This is a forwarded message
> From: Michael Olds <mikeolds@...>
> Date: Sunday, November 14, 2004, 7:12:37 PM
> Subject: Post to Pali Group
>
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> Hello Pali Group,
>
> While I find the scholarship on this subject
> interesting...

> this is not addressed to them other than as
> a suggestion that when
> speaking of these matters they be expressed
> conditionally, not as a matter
> of confirmed proofs.

Actually, being too cock-sure is not only against the
advise of the Buddha; it is also against the sound
principles of secular scholarship, which isn't
scholarship at all if it is't open to reconsider in
the face of new facts.

Gunnar


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