Tag: Buddha's-historicity

22 Aug 2025

• Buddha's-historicity
• Skepticism
• Authenticity-of-Early-Buddhist-Texts
• Oral-transmission
• Textual-criticism
• Archaeological-evidence
• Epigraphy
• Aśokan-inscriptions
• Piprahwa-reliquary
• Sanchi-relics
• Pre-imperial-India
• Idiosyncratic-personality
• Coherence-of-teachings
• Realism
• Myth-vs.-history
• Dialectic-of-silence
• Metaphysical-reticence
• Unanswered-questions
• Not-self-(anattā)
• Simile-of-the-extinguished-flame
• Upaniṣadic-context
• Alexander-Wynne
• David-Drewes
• Richard-Gombrich

22 Aug 2025

• Historical-Buddha
• Buddha's-historicity
• Ahistoricity
• Historiography
• Buddhist-studies
• 19th-century-scholarship
• 20th-century-scholarship
• Eugène-Burnouf
• T.W.-Rhys-Davids
• Hermann-Oldenberg
• Horace-Hayman-Wilson
• Étienne-Lamotte
• André-Bareau
• Brian-Houghton-Hodgson
• Previous-Buddhas
• Śākyamuni
• Mythical-founders
• Lack-of-evidence
• Fallacious-arguments
• Ad-populum-argument
• Great-Man-theory
• Pali-texts
• Sanskrit-manuscripts
• Gautama
• Siddhārtha
• Śākya-clan

22 Aug 2025

• Buddha's-historicity
• Historical-evidence
• Buddhist-Studies
• Textual-criticism
• Manuscript-evidence
• David-Drewes
• Oskar-von-Hinüber
• Sītā-myth
• Golden-plow
• Sañghabhedavastu
• Rāmāyaṇa
• Pali
• Sanskrit

22 Aug 2025

• Buddha's-historicity
• David-Drewes
• Oskar-von-Hinüber
• Textual-criticism
• Historical-method
• Early-Buddhist-texts
• Criterion-of-embarrassment
• Supernaturalism
• Mahāparinibbānasutta
• Étienne-Lamotte