Re: [INDOLOGY] Brāhmī in Sri Lanka

[Dominik Wujastyk]

>From my undergraduate coursework:

Sidebar: controversies about the Buddha

   - Reframing the date of the Buddha; Heinz Bechert "The Date of the
   Buddha Reconsidered
   <https://eclass.srv.ualberta.ca/pluginfile.php/5780381/mod_page/content/3/Date%20of%20the%20Buddha%20reconsidered%20vol10_art01_bechert.pdf>
   ."
      - Lance Cousins, "The Dating of the Historical Buddha: A Review
      <http://indology.info/papers/cousins/>"
   - The Canonical evidence (Buddha born in Lumbinī)
   - The Divyāvadāna evidence (Aśoka visited birthplace of the Buddha in
   Lumbinī)
   - (Re)discovery of Lumbini: Hultszch
   <https://archive.org/stream/InscriptionsOfAsoka.NewEditionByE.Hultzsch/HultzschCorpusAsokaSearchable#page/n24/mode/1up>
   pp. xxii and 164.
   - Lumbini at Google maps
   <https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Asoka+Piller/@27.46968,83.275522,299m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x32a9aa11b336717c!8m2!3d27.469654!4d83.2756296!6m1!1e1>
   .
   - Coningham 2013, "The earliest Buddhist shrine"
   <https://eclass.srv.ualberta.ca/pluginfile.php/5780381/mod_page/content/3/the-earliest-buddhist-shrine-excavating-the-birthplace-of-the-buddha-lumbini-nepal.pdf>
   .
      - Article about the 2013 finds, with Julia Shaw's response
      <http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/11/131125-buddha-birth-nepal-archaeology-science-lumbini-religion-history/>
      .
      - Gombrich 2013, "Recent discovery of "earliest Buddhist shrine” a
      sham?
      <http://tricycle.org/trikedaily/recent-discovery-earliest-buddhist-shrine-sham/>"



After studying Coningham 2013 carefully and the responses from Shaw and
Gombrich (which are informal but clear and damning), I no longer attend to
Coningham's publications.

Best,
Dominik



--
Professor Dominik Wujastyk
<https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/wujastyk>
,

Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
,

Department of History and Classics <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
,
University of Alberta, Canada
.


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On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 at 03:23, Harry Falk via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> I quote:
> - given half the chance, modern historians of ancient India will not stop
> at anything!
> - writing was known in historic India around 500 BC.
> - orthodox ‘comparative philologists’ of the nineteenth century.
> - strong smell of racism
> - Birch leaf fragments have been identified in its Black-and-Red Ware
> level dated around 800 BC [for nothing but writing]
> - direct hard evidence
> sancta simplitas!
> The lamented and truly knowledgable dear friend Iravathan Mahadevan had
> sent the book to me as well. We were fully d'accord regarding its nature.
> Was he a racist?
> Harry Falk
>
>
>
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