Did Buddha create a new language and a set of words?

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SarathW
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Did Buddha create a new language and a set of words?

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Did Buddha create a new language and a set of words?
What are the new sets of words?
Did he give a new meaning to the existing words?
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Ontheway
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Re: Did Buddha create a new language and a set of words?

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Maybe yes.

Eg:
From Brahma (Vedic creator), becomes "Brahma" (a classification of heavenly beings) and "divine" as in (Brahmavihara).
Hiriottappasampannā,
sukkadhammasamāhitā;
Santo sappurisā loke,
devadhammāti vuccare.

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SarathW
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Re: Did Buddha create a new language and a set of words?

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Ontheway wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 5:49 am Maybe yes.

Eg:
From Brahma (Vedic creator), becomes "Brahma" (a classification of heavenly beings) and "divine" as in (Brahmavihara).
I thought Brahamavigara is a pre-Buddhist word.
Don't you have Brahamavihara in Hinduism?
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Ontheway
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Re: Did Buddha create a new language and a set of words?

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SarathW wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 6:18 am
Ontheway wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 5:49 am Maybe yes.

Eg:
From Brahma (Vedic creator), becomes "Brahma" (a classification of heavenly beings) and "divine" as in (Brahmavihara).
I thought Brahamavigara is a pre-Buddhist word.
Don't you have Brahamavihara in Hinduism?
Certainly not modern Hinduism... The Hindus now focused more on "Bhakti" or "mantra meditation"...




"Om" meditation mantra



Btw, interestingly now I found out that Sri Lanka was once a Saivam country, a nation that worshipped Shiva.
https://www.srilanka.travel/ravana

And Sri Lankan King Ravana worshipping Shiva and created a specific mantra hymn only to Him.



Maybe you can ask your local Hindu priests about their "Brahmavihara"?
Hiriottappasampannā,
sukkadhammasamāhitā;
Santo sappurisā loke,
devadhammāti vuccare.

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victoria34
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Re: Did Buddha create a new language and a set of words?

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It is also possible that it was the premise for the birth of the languagephoodle
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