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To: SunkenCiv; .45 Long Colt; Apple Pan Dowdy; BDParrish; Big Red Badger; BlueDragon; boatbums; ...

Yet the earliest surviving (extant) manuscript of any of Siddhartha Gautama (who lived in South Asia during the 6th or maybe 5th century BC) teachings date from the first century BC to the third century AD, found in Afghanistan - hundreds of years after his existence - and there is no single textual collection for all of Buddhism, being were not committed to writing until some centuries after the death of Gautama Buddha. cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_texts


24 posted on 01/16/2024 7:18:45 AM PST by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: daniel1212

Not a good climate for document preservation, and Buddhism declined in its Indian homeland.

https://search.brave.com/search?q=oldest+surviving+text+of+old+testament

https://search.brave.com/search?q=oldest+surviving+text+of+new+testament


26 posted on 01/16/2024 2:07:43 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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