December 16, 2024 at 5:45 pm
#52913
Keymaster
That is misleading.
- Writing the Vedas or the Tipitaka using those methods will take forever. Furthermore, wide distribution among the population would not be practical.
- Writing on leaves was perfected (so that the Tipitaka could be written on leaves) after the Parinibbana of the Buddha. Scholars guess that it happened about 200 to 500 years after the Buddha. Even that is not an easy task. You would realize that if you read the post “Preservation of the Dhamma.”
- I don’t think you guys are reading the posts that I suggest, so I won’t comment on this anymore.
- Don’t get attached to particular views. Have an open mind. Do some research.
P.S. I asked Grok, Elon Musk’s AI. It says:
“Written documentation of the Vedas is believed to have started around 500 BCE, but the oldest surviving manuscripts date back to the 11th century CE. This indicates that while there might have been attempts to write down the Vedas from around 500 BCE, the manuscripts we have today only trace back to the 11th century CE.”