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**budumol** · 09-01-2010, 10:13 PM

Just as an aside relating to Professor Richard Gombrich mentioned by FBM #30 (who is a Pali scholar as well as a historian of early Buddhism) ....part of one of his books 'How Buddhism began - the conditioned genesis of the early teachings' can be found to read here at Google books:

http://books.google.com/books?id=aIO...page&q&f=false

also a lecture of possible interest:

Kindness and compassion as a means to Nirvana in early Buddhism:

http://www.ocbs.org/content/view/61/121/

09-01-2010, 10:13 PM	#33
budumol Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 299 Senior Member	Just as an aside relating to Professor Richard Gombrich mentioned by FBM #30 (who is a Pali scholar as well as a historian of early Buddhism) ....part of one of his books 'How Buddhism began - the conditioned genesis of the early teachings' can be found to read here at Google books: http://books.google.com/books?id=aIO...page&q&f=false also a lecture of possible interest: Kindness and compassion as a means to Nirvana in early Buddhism: http://www.ocbs.org/content/view/61/121/
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