08.03.09
Monotheism and the Gita
The question of Sinha’s Gita As It Was
James said,
08.03.09 at 4:27 pm ·Overall, I like the book, but I think Sinha makes a few mistakes. Monotheism, for instance, is mentioned quite frequently in the oldest Buddhist scriptures. It seems like the idea was circulating in the air during the Axial period even if the concept didn’t become popular in India until the medieval period.
Correctly evaluating such complex historical scholarship is very difficult. Note the difference between this and the Bazaz material that I put on this blog.
The question of the Gita is thus very problematical.