Now that Christians have started talking about Jesus the Jew, it is to be expected that Hindus and Buddhists should explore the notion Buddha the Hindu, or at least to highlight the Hindu foundations on which the Buddha built. It is now fairly widely accepted that Jesus was a millenarist cult leader inside the Jewish fold who did not conceive of his own message and mission as a new religion; the question may be asked whether the Buddha was not likewise an innovator within the Hindu tradition. But so far, that question has only been raised by the Hindu Revivalists and a lone Western scholar, certainly not by Buddhists, and to secularists the question is mere proof of evil Hindu imperialist (boa constrictor) designs. ~Koenraad Elst
Posted on: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 04:30:00 +0000