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Jiang's speculative name for the reconstructed IVC religion: not later Buddhism, but the beginnings of Buddhism in assumptions about oneness and false reality.
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Proto-Buddhism
Jiang's speculative name for the reconstructed IVC religion: not later Buddhism, but the beginnings of Buddhism in assumptions about oneness and false reality.
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Jiang explicitly marks his IVC religion thesis as speculative, strange, and likely rejected by most scholars, then argues that the IVC religion was proto-Buddhism.
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"...will not agree. I think the religion of the IVC is Proto -Buddhism. And the reason why is if you look at Zoroastrianism and..."
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"...religion of the IBC, the proto -religion, we would see a proto -Buddhism. Okay? The beginnings of Buddhism. It would be very different. Okay?..."
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: the Indus Valley was a peaceful trade civilization whose lost religion may survive as the Indian nostalgia for oneness, false reality, and liberation without the gatekeeper.
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