Guest guest Posted February 23, 2004 Report Share Posted February 23, 2004 On Monday, February 23, 2004, at 03:47 AM, ayurveda wrote: > a) The Title should be Buddhist / Jain philosophy. Both the > Buddhist and Jain philosophies are contemporary to each other and both > were into Ahimsa and vegetarianism. How far was this philosophy > developed post-Buddha is conjectural, as he himself suffered from > Asadhya roga( incurable disease ) towards the end and is presumed to > have died from consumption of a medication from a "pig" that was > infected. Perhaps as a medication, it was allowed to consume non-veg ( > animal) food, in his time. the only req'ment was that a nun/monk would not eat meat that s/he knew had been killed to feed her/him otherwise vegetarianism wasn't a philosophy per se > c) Neither Buddha nor Mahavir were Aryan. Buddha came from area > bordering Nepal and India, while Mahavir came from Bihar. Both > belonged to Indo-Chinese mixture of races. > > d) The Aryans were followers of Sacrifice and animal sacrifice was > predominant. The sacrificed animal was then consumed. This cannot be > an Ariyan ( your spelling) philosophy. It is Buddhist or Jain in > origin. i believe in this context arya simply means "noble" it is a term used extensively in pali buddhist literature and shouldn't be confused with race in much the same way, the svastika is an important symbol for almost all asian peoples and has nothing to do with the nazis Caldecott phyto http://www.wrc.net/phyto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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