The Shoulders He Stood on: the Buddha's Teachers | Dr Koenraad Elst |

A popular narrative these days about Buddhism is that Buddha defied Sanatana Dharma, his knowledge was purely acquired by him as a revelation and it was not based on any prior knowledge prevalent in society at that time. The Buddha never claimed originality says Dr. Koenraad Elst. Buddha's knowledge and his ideas rested on the ancient knowledge. The claim of Anti- Brahminism is a recent intervention in the Buddha narrative.

About the Speaker:
Dr. Koenraad Elst was born in Leuven, Belgium, on 7 August 1959, into a Flemish (i.e. Dutch-speaking Belgian) Catholic family. He graduated in Philosophy, Chinese Studies and Indo-Iranian Studies at the Catholic University of Leuven. During a stay at the Benares Hindu University, he discovered India’s communal problem and wrote his first book about the budding Ayodhya conflict.

While establishing himself as a columnist for a number of Belgian and Indian papers, he frequently returned to India to study various aspects of its ethno-religio-political configuration and interview Hindu and other leaders and thinkers. His research on the ideological development of Hindu revivalism earned him his Ph.D. in Leuven in 1998. He has also published about multiculturalism, language policy issues, ancient Chinese history and philosophy, comparative religion, and the Aryan invasion debate.

Sub topics:
0:00 Power statement
1:40 Conflict of Buddhism being separate from Hinduism
3:35 The influence of the knowledge from ancestors
5:35 The Ambedkarite Neo-Buddhists claim Buddha was unrelated to existing Hinduism
7:20 History of Yoga- insistence that it came as Hindu digestion of Buddhist ideas
9:06 Buddha- the great Aryan personality
11:40 Buddha- the preserver or reviver of Aryan civilised Humanism
15:00 Shrikant Talageri - Hinduism can not be reduced to just Vedas
19:00 Hindu word came in existence with Muslim invasions
22:16 Bal Gangadhar Tilak - What you believe is Hinduism
25:20 Among many other prevalent traditions Vaidik tradition gained more prestige
27:15 The idea of rebirth not Vaidik
31:42 The Buddha never claimed originality
35:30 Buddha's teachers
38:50 Meditation - emptiness is the central idea
40:50 He learnt meditation techniques from his predecessors
42:55 The yoga techniques are same but the ideas built around yogic experience is different
46:10 Vaidik elements in Buddhism
50:00 After his realisation Buddha sees all his past lives
53:10 The Brahma Viharas - Divine states of mind
55:55 Buddha continues Hindu practices - Vaidik restoration
59:50 Seven precepts for Non-decline
1:03:10 No notion of conversion from Hindu to Buddhist
1:05:00 Hindu Gods venerated in Buddhist temples world over
1:07:00 The self is Nirguna- without any qualities
1:10:00 Controversy about the self is a misunderstanding
1:13:00 When consciousness rests in itself that is yoga
1:14:40 Dharmic philosophies and the highest state achieved by Buddha is later termed as Buddhism

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