--- Stephen Hodge
<s.hodge@...> skrev::

> There is also a theory, a little dubious perhaps,
> that the mysterious
> ascetic and monastic Theraputae mentioned by Philo
> were in fact Theravadins
> (perhaps derived from *Theraputta) rather than a
> branch of the Essenes as
> commonly assumed.

Weren't they called "therapeutai" rather than
"theraputai"? I think this is the etymological root of
"therapy" - but not all therapists are Theravadins...

Gunnar


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