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**asivisepo** · 04-09-2011, 03:20 PM

I was looking at this article which was recently in the UK press and wondered if anyone had any comments about it.

This sentence also caught my eye ... "The quest for the historical Buddha – an exercise that parallels the 19th-century quest for the historical Jesus – is only just under way".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...stern-buddhism

04-09-2011, 03:20 PM	#1
asivisepo Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 456 Senior Member	'Buddhism is the new opium of the people' I was looking at this article which was recently in the UK press and wondered if anyone had any comments about it. This sentence also caught my eye ... "The quest for the historical Buddha – an exercise that parallels the 19th-century quest for the historical Jesus – is only just under way". http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...stern-buddhism
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