Historical buddhism 1 birth of india
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“The Falang Corner”Palayāloka Sangha
Talks on Buddhism by Buddy Landry
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These talks draw on mainstream historical, linguistic, archeological and anthropological sources to present a very abbreviated non-mythological account of how the Buddhist religion arose.
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Before the Buddha Part 1: India
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I The Birth of India
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• India and Asia were originally separate land masses.
• India moved north and collided with Asia some 10 million years ago.
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• The Indian plate slipped under the Asian plate, which is known as subduction.
• The Himalaya and Hindu Kush mountains are an ongoing result of this collision.
• The Tibetan Plateau is being raised by the underlying Indian Plate.
• A trench formed where India dipped down under Eurasia.
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• Runoff from the mountains deposited soil in the lowered area over geological time.
• The depressions filled, forming marshlands and later consolidated into two great rivers with many tributaries: the Indus and the Ganges.
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• The Ganges runs nearly due east through northwest India, Nepal, and Bangladesh to empty into the Bay of Bengal.
• The Ganges River system is the cradle of Hindu civilization.
• The Buddha lived, taught, and died there.
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Ganges River
Indus River
Punjab Region
• Northwest of the Ganges Plain and due north of the Indus river is the Punjab (“Five Rivers”) region.
• To the west of the Punjab is the Khyber Pass thru the Hindu Kush Mountains.
• The Khyber Pass is the easiest way into India from Central Asia.
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Himalaya Mountains
Khyber#Pass
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The Indus Valley Civilization
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