I will not enter the thicket of Buddhist influences on Jesus. Prabhu Guptara  
may indeed be a seasoned expert on this matter, as he says. I will only  
comment that his statements from authority do not move me one way or the  
other, without some support.  
  
What is historical is that one Wang-an Shih, a finance minister in the Sung  
Dynasty about the time of the Norman conquest of England, successfully  
promoted taxation of land, a policy that succeeded in perpetuating the  
dynasty for another 200 years; and that Turgot, the Physiocrat, became known  
as the French Confucius (probably Taoist would be more accurate); and that  
George replicated most of Turgot's ideas (probably independently, with a  
boost from Mill); and that Dr. Sun read George when in Hawaii, and  
incorporated them as "right livelihood" in the San Min Chu I; and that  
Taiwan idolized Dr. Sun, long after his death, and incorporated many of his  
ideas in the land reform and tax reform policies, creating one of the  
"Tiger" economies.  
  
Mason Gaffney