This "rule" is carried over by oral tradition in Theravada and is
adhered to today. Just the opposite among Mahayana/Vajrayana lineages.
However, all of their codifications were "discovered" later.
Unfortunately we don't historically know a lot more.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shuk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote:
>
>
> This kind of argument goes nowhere.
>
> 1. Buddhist teaching were oral at first and were not
>
> written for about 300 years. This is a long period
>
> of time and some scholars have used this fact to doubt
>
> that Gautama Budd
This kind of argument goes nowhere.
1. Buddhist teaching were oral at first and were not
written for about 300 years. This is a long period
of time and some scholars have used this fact to doubt
that Gautama Buddha even existed. They point out that
the Christian Gospels were written only abou
netineti3:
> ...it has been chanted for the past 6-7 thousand
> years. From ancient Rishis to Egyptians.
>
So, I wonder why 'OMKARA' wasn't mentioned by
the historical Buddha? Something this popular
and this important would surely have been one
of the topics covered by him.
Lot's of _discussion_ on the history of OMKARA.
Here is a video of Ganapathy Saccidananda Swamiji who instructs about how to
chant it the three different ways it has been chanted for the past 6-7 thousand
years. From ancient Rishis to Egyptians.
http://vimeo.com/9887638
--- In FairfieldLife@y
