User talk:2001:8A0:7B61:1B00:78FF:A91F:E887:53BB

March 2023
Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I noticed that in this edit to Barlaam and Josaphat, you removed content without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 02:06, 8 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello! To be quite frank, I don't think there's much evidence between these two saints and Buddha. The page offers no real strong connection between the two besides speculation through possible word evolution. Also, some of the sources seem to just repeat the information that the article itself states. For example, in "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Barlaam_and_Josaphat", it says, in the second paragraph: "The story is a Christianized version of one of the legends of Buddha, as even the name Josaphat would seem to show. This is said to be a corruption of the original Joasaph, which is again corrupted from the middle Persian Budasif (Budsaif=Bodhisattva)." Obviously, the amount of weasel words in that sentence should discredit it as a credible source, but maybe i'm just not seeing something? Anyways it's like 3 am, so feel free to reply to this message whenever and don't feel too pressured. 2001:8A0:7B61:1B00:78FF:A91F:E887:53BB (talk) 02:27, 8 March 2023 (UTC)