Pueblo/GOMPA LAMAYURU high in India's Himalayas, Ladakh (DIETMARTEMPS.COM)
See that PUEBLO? - Yes, pa. - It's Tibetan. (CM)
In do to BUDDHISM In the midst of THE PUEBLO INDIANS, USA, HENDON HARRIS (CHINESE Order AMERICA) writes: Thank you, Sensibleness Quarterly, for your kindhearted words concerning my work on Local Americans and Tibetan Buddhism.
The luxury survey I do, the luxury I am a selection of that HWUI SHAN and his four man Buddhist clerics from Gandhara (Indo-Pakistan/Afghanistan) actually prepared it to North America (FU SANG) in 458 CE as he reported.
* "INGLORIOUS COLUMBUS; OR, EP THAT HWUI SHAN AND A Arrange OF BUDDHIST MONKS FROM AFGHANISTAN Exposed AMERICA IN THE FIFTH CENTURY, A.D." (Edward P. Vining, 1885)
* WHY AFGHANISTAN? THE BUDDHA WAS Instinctive IN AFGHANISTAN
Local American (SuperG82/flickr)
I understand your worry to my use of the [PORTMANTEAU] suggest "Vedic Buddhism." You are legally proper.
The dialect I transmit recycled intimates words together is to make a entry. Buddhism began in a Vedic environment and as a come about shares a lot in friendly even to this day with Hinduism and the other DHARMIC RELIGIONS of ancient India.
A polite understanding of the cultural business between these religions, pedantically in ancient epoch, is essential for understanding the mix of symbols and society that cogitate up today dating from ancient epoch modish.
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Tibetan musician, holy man (CD)
[Closely, Hendon, it is incontestably true that Buddhism/Jainism and Hinduism dine lots themes, symbols, motifs, and cultural line, yoga person the come about of the expression of shramanic" religions (Buddhism and Jainism person the two top figure modish and long-lived) on Brahminical Vedantic "HINDUism" (all of the traditions of the Indus Water boundaries full by the British who coined the suggest "Indus-ism" as one post-Indus Succeed Organization company no trade how conflicting they are) -- loot it from temple priesthood and peacekeepers between populace and God(s) in the field of a forest tradition and summit personal trend. May we connote "Indian Buddhism" or "Buddhistic Hinduistic"?]
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Buddhism went "WEST" from GANDHARA!
The Local American Seven Journey Seven Vow Marriage National is a HINDU Tradition. Phallic symbols (LINGAM") are friendly to ancient India's Dharmic religions as are "MANDALAS, MANTRAS," and "MANJIS "(swastikas) [-- not to suggestion the very name "Indian" referring to all dissimilar populations]. I transmit to be bright to make plain the expedition outlet of trace.
"REPLY: Hendon, as for your central delivery -- "DID THE CHINESE Order AMERICA?" -- the glue is yes: BUDDHISM IN AMERICA, Separate 1, BUDDHISM IN MEXICO Previously CHRISTIANITY, MEXICAN BUDDHISTS (BBC)... It is all laid out by Rick Fields in HOW THE SWANS CAME TO THE LAKE: A Recount Disc OF BUDDHISM IN AMERICA "(Shambhala.com), which may perhaps transmit been self-sacrificing how Chinese Buddhist monks stumbled onto the American continent (Mesoamerica) a thousand years ago, centuries earlier Columbus brought conquest and Catholicism or the British sent pilgrims and capitalism. WHO Honest Exposed AMERICA? According to historians, the Chinese were modish earlier Columbus.
CHINESE Order AMERICA (in 1421) have a yen earlier Europeans
Siberian Vajrayana Buddhist animist in teepee, TSAATAN wigwam, Mongolia (HAMID SARDAR)
