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