[Advaita-l] Is Ayyappa a Vedic god?

[D.V.N.Sarma డి.వి.ఎన్.శర్మ]

It is very difficult to imagine the form of Buddha in the idol of Ayyappa.
I do not think that there are any similarities.

regards,
Sarma.

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 2:59 PM, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> There is a lot of literature on 'Caste in Buddhism'; here is one:
>
> http://www.chakranews.com/castes-in-buddhism-is-caste-
> only-a-hindu-problem-part-4/3094
>
> //Weber while concluding in his long monograph
> <http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/irenik/relkultur50.pdf> adds:
>
> “Besides Buddha, the ancient Buddhism of India worshipped the gods,
> brahmanas and shramanas. It accepted the caste system and introduced it
> even itself. A Buddha could be either a pure kshatriya or a pure brahmana;
> however, a person belonging to a mixed or lower caste could never become an
> enlightened one, and by no means could a dalit become a Buddha.
>
> The more we study the reality of the ancient Indian Buddhism we see that it
> is so extremely related to its contemporary co-religionists and so far from
> the thinking, working and feeling of modern Buddhists too. Religious people
> who are fighting against one and another today are nevertheless more
> related to one another than to their own strange ancestors.//
>
> regards
>
> vs
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