eye (gaze) in the Katha Upanishad

[jkirk]

Will do--thanks--J
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frits Staal" <jfstaal at SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU>
To: <INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: eye (gaze) in the Katha Upanishad


> Better look at Leon Hurvitz' translation 1976 reprinted in paper Columbia
> Press.
>
> At 10:47 AM 2/6/02 -0700, you wrote:
> >Apologies to the list for my stupidity.   I had somehow got the erroneous
> >idea that this sutra was written much later in E Asia.  The internet
never
> >fails to amaze--i just found this URL containing Burton Watson's edition
of
> >the LS and am proceeding to study it.
> >http://www.sgi-usa.org/buddhism/library/Buddhism/LotusSutra/
> >
> >joanna K
> >====================
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Tenzin Bob Thurman" <tbt7 at COLUMBIA.EDU>
> >To: <INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk>
> >Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 9:23 AM
> >Subject: Re: eye (gaze) in the Katha Upanishad
> >
> >
> >> Hi Joanna,
> >> The Lotus Sutra, with its associated texts, most certainly originated
in
> >> India, as well as the figure of Avalokiteshvara, who certainly is
> >> involved with "gazing!"
> >> Bob Thurman
> >>
> >>
> >
> Frits Staal
>
> http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/staal
>
>