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Religion can never reform mankind
because religion is slavery.
Robert G. Ingersoll,
1833-1899.
Seated Buddha (Flickr photo),
Pakistan or Afghanistan, ancient region of Gandhara.
A myth is an idea that, while widely believed, is false. The religious...
This is an interesting talk by Professor Gregory Schopen, chair of the UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and an authority on ancient Indian Buddhism, who has been separating Buddhist fact from fiction for the past 30 years. In this UCLA...
"Behold, he shall come up like clouds,
And his chariots like a whirlwind.
His horses are swifter than eagles.
Woe to us, for we are plundered!"
Thus prophesized Jeremiah of Judea around 627 BCE, (Jeremiah, 4, 13). In about 625 BCE the horsemen known...
On these grounds, then, it is here submitted that the traditional figure of the Buddha, in its most plausibly rationalized form, is as unhistoric as the figure of the Gospel Jesus has been separately shown to be. Each figure simply stands for the...
Seated mustachioed Buddha.
Pakistan or Afghanistan, ancient region of Gandhara, 1st-2nd century CE.
Since the 19th century certain Buddhologists have speculated that Buddha was a member of the Scythian steppe nomads, some of whom had been encroaching...
