Balarama vs. Buddha (was Re: avatAra of Adishesha ?)

[Sankaran Kartik Jayanarayanan]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Vivek Anand Ganesan wrote:

[..]

>   I posed the same question to ( i.e. Is Buddha an Avatar
> of VishNu? ) to a VaishNavite priest in Memphis, TN and to
> a VaishNavite scholar independently.  They both said that
> most "main-stream" VaishNavas do not consider the Buddha to
> be an avatar of VishNu.

This is interesting, since both the VishhNu purANa and the shrImad
bhaagavatam.h accept Buddha as an avataar of vishhNu who deludes the
faithless.

[..]

> -Vivek.
>

-Kartik

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