Early Buddhist History (I): India in the Time of the Buddha

[@vensonata]

Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu. Very nice presentation, both of the information and the illustrations and maps. Nice production values as well! Ajahn Sona

[@noonespecial4171]

Shame on you impersonating Venerable Sona.

[@vensonata]

@@noonespecial4171 The last time I looked... I was Ajahn Sona!

[@lukerothwell5755]

Wishing you well Ajahn Sona

[@tathagata198]

Venerable Sona, Can you make the Ten Paramis chant public again on youtube?

[@simonsays525]

A monk commenting on another monk’s KZbin video. What a beautiful and interesting time we live in. Thank you both for everything you do!!

[@Luangpeetabtim]

Sadhu sadhu. I am studying Indology and Early Buddhism in the university and this clip is very useful for me either for reminding me the thing I have learnt and for particing my English listening skill because Ajarn's pronounciation is very clear and not that fast to catch the words. ❤

[@LamphunLamyai]

Ajahn Punnadhammo. Fascinating. I've been a student of history of the Eurasian area but in the more recent centuries during the time of The Great Game. So a lot of my time has been spent in studying history as related to Geo-politics. Which has quite literally worn me out given the current social upheaval and the beating of the cyclical drums of war once again. I've turned my back on the mundane world and now dedicate my time to Dhamma study and meditation as laity. But the history of this region (Central and Southeast Asia) during the Buddha's time is very interesting. It helps to put his life and his teaching into historic and cultural perspective. I enjoyed the talk very much and will be coming back for more. สาธุๆ

[@thoughtfog]

ultra satisfying. well made and inspiring. sincere thank you. I just ate spicy green thai coconut curry while watching this video. good evening from Marquette, Michigan bowing

[@kbgirel6965]

This has been such an educational episode, I can’t thank you enough

[@SuperFaezeh]

Thank you, great master.

[@NullStaticVoid]

Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu. Thanks for your objective and interesting teaching. You covered a lot of topics from anthropology to archeology to Vinaya!

[@OuroboricReflections]

Dear bhante, thank you so much for this series; I've been enjoying it immensely. Please consider - if time and energy permit - adding more historical content of similar nature to your channel (at least occasionally). Thank you again, sadhu, sadhu, sadhu!

[@James-y6j6d]

Great video.Excellent research and presentation .Thank you Ajahn. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@JMichaelThames]

Thank you so much, discovering your channel is like finding gold Long life Sir!

[@theislandwithin]

Thank you for putting so much work into these, Ajahn. They are a treasure.🙏

[@zetaconvex1987]

Thank you Bhante for an interesting talk.

[@GuyNash-h5s]

Thanks, again, for your efforts, Sir.🙏

[@kennethtan6403]

Thank you. The quality is amazing!

[@upasikasomir2786]

Dear venerable Punnadhammo handa mayam dhamma kataya sadhu karom dadhamma se: sadhu, sadhu, sadhu, anumodami I deeply appreciate your excellent dhamma talk. I rejoice in your merit! Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu

[@evesocha5655]

Thank you Dear Ajahn

[@perthDev]

Thankyou for such a comprehensive history Bhante. This is just what I have been looking for.

[@rramach9091]

Very well presented.

[@dushyantshakya4080]

Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma sambuddhassa

[@paulyan1946]

Thank you Bhante Punnadhammo for making this presentation. Will get to Part 2 in a minute. May you attain nibbāna in due course. 🙏

[@fredwiggins4610]

Thank you

[@OuroboricReflections]

Also, a short question, if you don't mind: which books would you recommend for the early Buddhist history? Thank you!

[@OldWolf1933]

A very good book, based on the early teachings, is The Historical Buddha, the Times, Life and Teachings of the Founder of Buddhism, written by H.W. Schumann.

[@OuroboricReflections]

@@OldWolf1933 Thank you, greatly appreciated! If any others come to mind - with heavy focus on history - please do share.

[@Zakk-zx8yh]

Thank you for your teaching 🙏

[@Avi-Bhatta]

Mahavira and Makkhali Gosala were contemporaries of Gautama Buddha as both were active during fifth century BC and were present in the greater Magadh area. They were central figures of Jainism and Ajivikas. I was expecting some reference of them.

[@sankubanku1633]

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu Thank you for the talk Venerable Punnadhammo

[@Knaeben]

The Brahmans having highly detailed and specific rituals for different occasions brings to mind the Navajo religion, which also has highly detailed rituals for specific occasions with sand paintings and deities evoked, etc.

[@ShakerHP]

Greetings Where can I find I’d download that chant you started with?? And the name of it? Thank you! 🙏

[@risingsunintl]

Praise to the Enlightened One. Namo tasa bhagawato arahato sam ma sam budhasa. Repeat 3 times.

[@sumanghosh-pb3dw]

9:47 24:38 - metal work, iron was used more 4 weapons.

[@judywong2989]

Sadhu sadhu sadhu

[@MargaretteLemon_ThoDao]

🙏

[@RARa12812]

Vendrable Punnadhammo.....can you please do a video on what Buddha would preach if he comes to the world today... todays world is full of wars...same as ancient India... Gratification of senses...same as then Racism? Less today i guess.. compared to ancient india and other countries Family life......same i guess.. Rights of women.....definetely better today Democracy...definetely better today..

[@murtazachishti962]

🙏🙏🙏

[@bahadursunny1674]

sadhu

[@sonamphuntsok9978]

Buddha was around 2nd century and not 5th century. No wrong information please

[@dayanthahewawitharana1341]

You are worg 6th cen BC Even king Ashoka was in 3 cen bc Plz dont mislead

[@ambedkaritesofbengal790]

Sorry to say, You have a very poor knowledge in ancient Indian history. If your comment is correct, the Buddha was born after Ashoka!!!!!!!! How can that be possible?????

[@nicholassmirz6041]

Point of order, respectfully, the Harappan civilization had been trading with the peoples of Iran and Mesopotamia

[@sarantsatsralbuyan]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💐💐💐😍❤️🌈🇲🇳

[@akshayajain238]

Lol.

[@STT-m4j]

👹🤔🙄😂😂😂NOgood👎 အဲဒါစေတန်နတ်တွေ စောက်ကျင့်မကောင်းဘူး နော်

[@Samana358]

Thank you sir, I wish you go through the latest historical, archaeological and linguistic history of ancient India by some scholars and Buddhist enthusiastic found that written history of ancient Indian is absolutely false . (Aryan cannot be placed before buddhas time). The placement of Aryans at 1500 bc has no archaeological evidence till date, this is mearly done of paper by historians. Please apologize me, for this submission. With love..

[@dayanthahewawitharana1341]

You are mistaken

[@dayanthahewawitharana1341]

Plz go thorough Ashoka pillars

[@utsavkumar4826]

Aryans never came from outside. They were people of Indian descent only.

[@akshayajain238]

Buddha is a aryan pali is a indo aryan language . Buddhists also worship sakra ,mahabrahma they both are hindu gods . Dravidians are not buddhists . Dravidians are shavites (they are worshipers of shiva )

[@Anshulhe]

Not true both aryan and dravidian are linguistic terms not racial. All people of India fall under same race category and Buddha is probably no different he never spoke pali as pali is not vernacular language. Coming to Buddhist Philosophy people says it's non aryan because it's not vedic more indic in thought and way coming all the way from Indus valley traditions and philosophies which are not aryan. Even Hindu samkya and vedanta are for namesake vedic but those philosophies are rooted in native Indus valley religion and beliefs. Coming to dravdian speakers they played dominant role in all religions, whether it's Mahayana Buddhism which started out of andhra or some of main sects of Jainism were all developed out of South also advaita philosophy, dvaita, Vaishnavism, shaivism, bhakti cult were are all also started out of South.

[@chiragsharma5050]

Get proper knowledge first no one gave you authority to manipulate thoughts

[@akshayajain238]

Hinduism is greater than buddhism i am jain l love hindus . Buddhism is a copy of hindu samkhya philosoph,hindu minimasa philosophy etc both samkhya and minimasa schools of hinduism denying creator god

[@bloodshedthehuman]

prove it or leave it.

[@Richdadful]

Buddhist texts is more precise and non contradictary. I am Hindu and I cofirm. Hinduism does teaches things like nirvana etc. But the Hindu texts are very confusing and contradicting due too many edits.

[@jattadeputt9880]

Samkhya is not a Hindu philosophy as it doesn't believe in god or vedas but unfortunately Indian scholars count it in Hindu philosophy even though it is a Nastik darshan. Samkhya is the foundation of Shraman traditions which were later hijacked by Brahmins. You being a Jain should be ashamed of promoting Brahmanism as your ancestors were nastiks and were the biggest critics of Brahmanism.

[@kbgirel6965]

@@jattadeputt9880 you are right Brahmins also started to become Shramans, shiva was shriman god since long time but later they adopted as one of the Hindu gods Meditating in solitude was a shraman tradition so initially Lord Buddha also did that but later he became an enlightened and his teachings become Buddhisms of today

[@dayanthahewawitharana1341]

No According to buddisam No all mighty god No created one Hindusam says There is all mighty god Who created world And humans being It was worg According to buddisam No Soul No Eetarnal thing ANATHMA So it was the truth So buddisam is the relality Greater than Hindusam And MAHAWERAS JAINisam