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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. Lou Keep‏ @lou_keep 24 Jul 2017
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      @Meaningness Any chance you can recommend a book on the history of Buddhism? I'm especially interested in the early history in South Asia

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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 24 Jul 2017
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      Unfortunately I don’t know the early period at all well. @Jayarava is highly knowledgeable and might have a suggestion.

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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 24 Jul 2017
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      Replying to @Meaningness @lou_keep @Jayarava

      My non-expert impression is that there is no actual early history in the sense of reliable documentary evidence.

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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 24 Jul 2017
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      Only some time around 100 BC is there any evidence at all, other than scriptural fables, and detailed history is sketchy until well into AD.

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    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 24 Jul 2017
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      Replying to @Meaningness @lou_keep @Jayarava

      This is not the consensus view, however, and may be excessively skeptical.

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    6. Lou Keep‏ @lou_keep 24 Jul 2017
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      Got it. Thanks for the overview!

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    7. 𝕵𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐚‏ @Jayarava 24 Jul 2017
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      G Samuel. The Origins of Yoga and Tantra. Use summary of early archaeology. 1st evidence of Buddhism ca 250BC (DC!) time of Asoka.

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    8. 𝕵𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐚‏ @Jayarava 24 Jul 2017
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      Note DC, that we now have Buddhist birchbark manuscripts C14 dated to 2nd Century BCE. Asoka tells us that he converts mid 3rd C.

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    9. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 24 Jul 2017
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      I deploy stubborn ignorance to maintain my skepticism about Ashoka :)

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    10. 𝕵𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐚‏ @Jayarava 24 Jul 2017
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      Replying to @Meaningness @lou_keep

      On what basis? The inscriptions exist - I've seen several of them. They are securely dated to mid 3rd Cent BC. They mention Buddhism.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 24 Jul 2017
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      No basis other than stubbornness and ignorance! I have extremely good intentions to educate myself. Just not yet

      5:14 PM - 24 Jul 2017
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        1. 𝕵𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐚‏ @Jayarava 24 Jul 2017
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          Oh me, oh my, oh....

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