Beckwith is arguing that buddhism formed in the Central Asian provinces of Ancient Persia in reaction to Iranian influences
My takeaway is that Beckwith speculates far beyond his data… but this may be a useful corrective to scripturalism.
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just because it shows there are very different histories that *might* be true, and can’t be ruled out other than by
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arbitrarily assuming that politically motivated documents written ~500 years after supposed events are accurate.
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