ORIGIN AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE KUKRI

[Rivkin]

Originally Posted by ariel

Many thanks! This is fabulously interesting, especially the linguistic connection. Protolanguages can tell us as much about origin of things as material artefacts.
As to the picture... I always thought I was not squeamish, but this one went over the top! Aren't they Buddhists?

I remember a japanese sensei who once gave a lecture on buddhism, in which he was very concerned about the portrayal of buddhism by modern japanese cinema - he said something like "in one scene you see a dedicated buddhist monk, in the next scene he slaughters 40 men, while viciously screaming".