Was the Buddha Ukrainian? (video)

Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly (archives); English.Pravda.ru

The Buddha was a supremely handsome Central Asian royal with blue eyes, fair/golden complexion, black curly hair, and striking features, from the Solar Dynasty, a warrior-caste "noble" (Aryan or Iranian). See Rhys Davids' Jataka (trans.) with "Story of the Lineage" (MT)

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Buddha, Jesus Christ, and ancient Egyptians were Ukrainians
Pravda.ru, Real Life Stories

Venerated in Burma (oRi0n Fabio/flickr.com)

[The] Buddha, who is widely worshiped in Asia, was of direct relevance to Ukraine, the official publication of the country’s parliament wrote.

Jesus Christ actually lived 3,000 years before his canonical birth and spoke the Coptic language, which is a close language to the ancestors of contemporary Ukrainians...

“It is quite possible that [the] Buddha belonged to the Scythian nation of Budins [who] lived on the territory of ancient Ukraine during the first or the second millennium B.C.

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“The name of the nation is still preserved in the names of Ukraine’s contemporary settlements -- Seredina-Buda, Buda, and some others,” the newspaper of Ukraine’s Supreme Rada wrote.

Gorgeous Buddha in Asia

“Everything is clear from the ethnic point of view. [The] Buddha was a Scythian Arian [Aryan in Buddhism means "noble one," but is thought to derive from the word for Iran, people from the northwest implicated in ancient "Aryan Invasion" theories about the rise of the Indus River Valley and India], a member of the Budin tribe. The descendants of the tribe still live in the Sumsky and the Chernigov region of Ukraine, as well as on the neighboring lands of Belarus and Russia,” the newspaper said.

Buddhists far to the West and North
Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY)

• In another part of Russia, Buddhist Siberia (aka "North Asia") -- which long ago began to follow Buddhism from Central Asia (Gandhara and Afghanistan) arriving on the Silk Road and Vajrayana Buddhism that reached it through Mongolia (when Tibet was the head of a Himalayan empire that brought Buddhism to Bangladesh, formerly "East India," on the southern side of the mountain range where the Ganges river ends, according to Ven. Karunananda, Ph.D. -- some place names reflect a more prominent Buddhist past:
• See Sakha Republic/Yakutia (like Saka, Sakka, Shakya), which is situated next to Magadan Oblast.
• The Magha of the Maga people (like Buddhist Magadha of India in standard histories and the more ancient Vedic "Magadha" Kingdom) is the capital city of Alania, a medieval kingdom in the Greater Caucasus.
• It is usual that emigrants name new cities after old ones in reverence of their history. This is all just teasing at loose and tantalizing threads in the tapestry of history, suggestions rather than any definitve proof.
• The Saka (Shakya) -- of formerly-Buddhist Tajikistan -- were a growing, itinerant, "wandering," spreading, shaman/shramana-favoring Scythian tribe of Iranian (Ariyan) origin
• The Buddha was from Afghanistan (ranajitpal.com), not Nepal's Terai region, as standard history claims, nor East India's Orissa (Odisha) as the government of Orissa attempts to promote.
• The "Great Tribe Footholds or Family-Clan Territories" (Maha Janapadas) do not place the Shakyans, who were the Buddha's family, in ancient "Greater India" (Maha Bharat)
• "Noble" (Aryan, Arya, Ariya) originally derived from the word "Iranian" when parts now listed as part of the "geopolitical Middle East" were still in Central Asia
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Yay, the Buddha's cool and Ukrainian! (FEM)

The “sensationalist” article was written by Valery Bebik, a doctor of Political Sciences, a professor, deputy principal of Ukraine University, and the chairman of the board of the All-Ukrainian Association of Political Sciences.

Mr. Bebik published a number of his articles in the official newspaper of the Ukrainian Parliament before. He wrote his previous articles for the paper to “prove” the remarkable role of the Ukrainian civilization, which endowed the world with spiritual enlightenment, outstanding prophets, philosophers, and leaders.

In 2008-2009, the Ukrainian professor shared his amazing observations of ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, and the ethnic origin of Jesus Christ.

Hey, Obi, you don't tell me who to invade, and I won't tell you who to kill with your drones! Like with Libya, I said don't take out Kaddafi. - Hey, Vlad, relax! Don't make me sic McCain on ya. - You get that Munchkin out of Ukraine, you "lame duck," you would-be dictator. You and Merkel, stay out of my affairs! - Man, you crazy, Putty! I can't talk to you no mo'.

 

Blue-eyed reclining Buddha, final-nirvana (W)

“The name of Egypt’s major temple, Het-ka-Ptah, sounds very much like Ukrainian words hata and ptaha (“house” and “bird”). The pictures on the Egyptian pyramids show that Egyptian queens were blonde women with blue eyes, just like many Ukrainian women. One should also pay attention to the fact that the trident, which is currently the minor national emblem of Ukraine, can often be seen there too,” the [social] “scientist” wrote.

“We have already outlined the facts that placed in question the official church version of the ethnic origin and the biblical dates of the life of Jesus Christ and the historical epoch, in which the basis of Christianity was formed.

It looks like Christ actually lived 3,000 years before his canonical birth and spoke the Coptic language, which is a close language to the ancestors of contemporary Ukrainians,” The Voice of Ukraine wrote. More

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Buddhism in Russia: Lhasa's Emissary to Tsar

Amber Larson and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; John Snelling; J. Anderson

The Kremlin in Red Square, Moscow: imperial capital of vast land holdings that again include Crimea but not the "Stans" of Central Asia, formerly Buddhist countries overtaken by Islam.

 

Buddhism in Russia: The Story of Agvan Dorzhiev: Lhasa's Emissary to the Tsar is a fascinating story of political and religious intrigue.

It tells the story of Agvan Dorziev, a Mongolian Buddhist Lama, who was instrumental in the founding of Buddhism in Russia.

 

[Russia/USSR as an empire spread out to include many formerly Buddhist lands in Central Asia. It also contains Kalmykia -- Europe's only indigenous Buddhist country, the home of international chess tournaments and Lenin's grandmother. The shamans of Siberia practice a shramanic/shamanistic form of Esoteric Buddhism from Mongolia, Tibet, Western China, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and faraway Afghanistan (Gandhara, India), Russia's "Vietnam." With secret CIA help, Afghans eventually repelled the USSR so the USA/MIC could illegally invade, occupy, and plunder it.]

The book includes an update on the status of Buddhism in Russia since Glasnost.

NUMBERS: There are under-counted Russian Buddhists throughout the country -- particularly in Buryatia, Yakutia (Sakha Republic), Kalmykia, and Siberia -- with census numbers reflecting more "atheists," "animists," and "Eastern Orthodox Christians" as if any of these designations negated one's Buddhist beliefs or practices. A Moscovite who practices the Dharma will still routinely be listed as an official atheist (formerly a good Communist party member) unless s/he is from a Buddhist Russian republic or territory.
 

Soviet slice of Buddhist history

J. Anderson, edited by Wisdom Quarterly 

Gorgeous Russian Buddhist temple, Buryatia, Russia (J. Weeks/VOA.com)

 

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John Snelling's major work was being completed when he passed away in 1992. It tells a fascinating story about Ven. Agvan Dorzhiev, a brilliant Mongolian lama and the Tibetan capital's emissary to Russia in the 19th century.
 

Arrayed against the backdrop of the fiercely Orthodox court of the Russian Tsars -- with its sacred religio-political [unseparated church and state] dominance over nearly every aspect of Russian life, the extraordinary progress made by Ven. Dorzhiev in setting Tibetan Buddhism on a solid footing in that land is a story of remarkable courage and success.
  

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Snelling's books can be a bit dry and academic, but his scholarship shines, and the text is surefooted and informative. The book's success rests on its thoroughness. Snelling takes a comprehensive look at the early and post-Communist state of Buddhism in Russia.
 

The enormous expanse of Russia bordering the rest of Northern Europe on the left and Siberia on the right with America just to the right beyond the Bering Straits. Buddhist Kalmykia is shown in red on the shores of the Caspian Sea.

Russian Buddhist monk, Vesak 2013 (rbth.ru)

This, indeed, makes a valuable contribution to the study of the spread and influence of Buddhism as a world religion. It even speculates with respect to the future of the Dharma in Russian Asia.
 
Included are some marvelous photos of Ven. Dorzhiev and a brilliant mini-history of the Buryats (from which he arose). While readable, it is definitely a specialist's book. More than biography, less than hagiography -- it concerns itself with what is rather than what if.

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In any case, it is a tale unlikely to be told anywhere else.
 
Certainly, it is told nowhere else with as much authority, passion, and carefully wrought scrutiny as Snelling delivers. Recommended for anyone inclined toward the myriad diversity of Buddhist history beyond India and Southeast Asia. 

World War II: Behind Closed Doors

J. Anderson, edited by Wisdom Quarterly 

This is a welcomed reappraisal of Churchill, a film incorporates information from Soviet files not available until the 1990s. One important outcome is a new and welcome delineation of the lying duplicity of England's Winston Churchill, his involvement in handing half of Europe to Russian Dictator Joseph Stalin, sentencing the Eastern Bloc nations to half a century of Stalinist (Orwellian) suffering. On the whole, it presents a view of history distinct from stories regurgitated in the West... More

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Topless protests to go worldwide (video)

Amber Larson, Ashley Wells, Seven, CC Liu (trans.), Wisdom Quarterly; FEMEN.org/en

FEMEN means death to patriarchy, life to gender equality, and topless "sextremism"

WARNING: Toplessness, drinking, mild nudity, revolution! (CinemaCopainLtd) Produced by Alain Margot 2014 (montage by Loredana Cristelli, music Cristina Yakovleva). Runtime: 95 min.

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NYON, Switzerland - April 29th, 2014 saw the first screening of the newest documentary on the FEMEN women's movement.

The world premiere of "I am FEMEN" was held at "Visions du Réel," the largest Swiss documentary film festival.

 
The film, shot by Swiss director Alain Margot, tells the story of the Ukrainian women's movement becoming a worldwide phenomenon.

 

Devas agree. Topless for attention (femen)

"I am FEMEN" analyzes the organization, reveals its secrets of how it successfully creates protests, slogans, tactics, and strategic "sextremism." to advance liberty and equality and oppose patriarchy and sexism. 

It gives viewers insight into the thoughts and experiences of female activists living in a world of constant provocation.

This is a film about the world of feminism, protest, and revolution.

 

Look, mom, I'm meditating with my shirt on!

Alain Margot began the documenting process literally from the beginning of the movement. She was able to capture the formation and development of the organization, experience its growing pains -- its losses and the joy of its victories. 

 

It is a cinematic "masterpiece" that will NOT be showing at the local corporate cineplex. But it will be screened in some daring theaters with a planned release date of May 14, 2014. More

In French, too!

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"Je suis FEMEN" (un film documentaire d' Alain Margot): Oxana ["Shachko"] est une femme, une militante, une artiste. Adolescente, sa passion pour la peinture d'icônes la pousse à entrer au couvent, mais c'est au sein du mouvement Femen qu'elle met finalement à contribution son talent. Elle a co-fondé avec Anna, Inna et Sasha le fameux groupe d'opposantes féministes au régime, qui l'amène de son Ukraine natale aux quatre coins de l'Europe. Entre rage de créer et envie de changer le monde, Oxana livre sa personnalité discrète, envoûtante et multicolore, à l'image de ses œuvres passionnées. Montage: Loredana Cristelli, musique: Cristina Yakovleva. Documentaire cinéma durée: 95 minutes.

Buddhism in Europe, Siberia, and Asian Russia

Dhr. Seven and Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly

The European Vajrayana Buddhist Gold Temple (kalmykia.eu)

 

Massive Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia

The early history of Siberia is greatly influenced by the sophisticated nomadic civilizations of the Scythians (Pazyryk culture as far west as modern Ukraine) on the west of the Ural Mountains and Xiongnu (Noin-Ula) on the east of the Urals, both flourishing before the Christian [common] era. The steppes of Siberia saw a succession of nomadic people, including the Khitan people, Altaic people, and the Mongol Empire. 

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The Buddha, Indo-Pakistan/Afghanistan, Gandhara

In the late Middle Ages, Tibetan Buddhism spread into the areas south of Lake Baikal. A milestone in the history of the region was the arrival of the Russians in the 16th and 17th centuries. This was contemporaneous and in many regards analogous to the European colonization of the Americas (and the formation of the USA). When Russia was an empire, Siberia was an agricultural province and served as a place of exile. More

Eurasian people, as in the Caucasus region, traveled north taking Central Asian Buddhism with them, most notably the Kalmyks.

They settled along the Caspian Sea in Kalmykia opposite formerly Buddhist Kazakhstan, the only indigenously Buddhist region in Europe.

This should come as no surprise when we understand that the Buddha, who had blue eyes, was born in the "Middle Country" (Majjhimadesa/Kamsabhoja). 

This refers to the land between East and West, in what is now historically Buddhist Afghanistan (i.e., Bamiyan, Mes Aynak, Tepe Narenj), once the northwest frontier of India (Jambudvipa). The Silk Road went right through making the area very rich but susceptible to invasions by various empires including the American military-industrial complex.

Map of Silk Road routes over land and sea, which allowed the Dharma travel across Asia

  

Buddhist Europe (S.U./kalmykia.eu)

The "Longer Discourses of the Buddha" (Digha Nikaya 1.90-95) tells a story of the Buddha's people, the Shakyans, possibly Western history's Scythians. From an Indian point of view, they are "foreign." The Buddha describes them as extremely "proud." 

The Brahmin Ambattha (the youth Ambattha-mānava from Ukkatthā or the "Middle Country" of Uttarapatha, who later became a Buddhist) describes them as "fierce, rough spoken, violent, wanderers (referring to their itinerant or nomadic lifestyle, often incorrectly translated as "menials"). They do not respect Brahmins nor pay homage to them." 

Silk Road through Gandhara, Greek Bactria

In that area, the administrator-Brahmin caste (brahmanas) was subordinate to the warrior-nobles (kshatriyas). 

 

Upon visiting Kapilavastu, the Shakyan capital and the Buddha's hometown, Ambattha explains them as those who "sat upon high seats in meeting halls, engaging in laughing, rough playing, poking each other with fists and fingers and paid no regard to [Ambattha a Brahmin who felt he was deserving of their regard because of his caste status]."

 

In referring to the Buddha, the "Sage of the Scythians," Shakyamuni (DN 3.144), he is fair (golden hued) with blue eyes.

 

Trans-Siberian Art Festival 2014

Amber Larson and Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; Cami.com

Vajrayana Buddhism and shamanism from Sakha to Magada, Siberia (en.rsport.ru)

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Ivolginsky Datsan Siberian Buddhist temple (S-D)

In 1893, the first railway bridge was built over the Ob river, and with it Novosibirsk was founded. One hundred and twenty years later, the internationally renowned violinist Vadim Repin is building new musical bridges in his hometown with the founding of a classical music festival. 

Novosibirsk (Новосибирск) is the third most populous city in Russia after Moscow and St. Petersburg and the most populous city in Asian Russia, with a population of 1,523,801 (2013 est.). It is the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast as well as of the Siberian Federal District. The city is located in the southwestern part of Siberia on the banks of the Ob river adjacent to the Ob River Valley, near the large Novosibirsk Reservoir formed by the dam of the Novosibirsk Hydro Power Plant and occupies an area of 502.1 square kms (193.9 sq mi). The city is informally known as the "Capital of Siberia."

Svetlana Smolina, Transsiberian Art Fest

In its first year, the Trans-Siberian Art Festival invites music lovers on an imaginary trip from Western Europe to Siberia. From March 31 to April 12, 2014, some of the most important symphonic and chamber music pieces by European composers such Bach, Bartók, Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Chopin, Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Saint-Saёns will be played in juxtaposition with pieces by Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, and Yusupov. The festival will be inaugurated in the recently completed Arnold Kats Concert Hall with Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole ("Spanish Symphony") under the musical direction of Kent Nagano. 

Siberia, 17th century (Witsen's Shaman)

This will be the second time ever that the joint performance of "Pas-dedeux for Toes and Fingers" by Vadim Repin and the prima ballerina Svetlana Zakharova will be presented. The Israeli composer Benjamin Yusupov will attend the premiere of his violin concerto "Voices of Violin" by Repin with the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra under their chief conductor Gintaras Rinkevičius. More

I am a Ukrainian girl (video)

Ashley Wells, Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; Michele Kirk (bizpacreview.com, 02-20-14)

  

This clip is being called “a must-see video of a Ukrainian girl asking the world for help against [police] oppression and corruption.” It has gone viral and left an impression on millions of people. Here is a brief description from the Facebook page linked to the video on YouTube:

Russia's Putin is to blame! (FEMEN.org/en)

This is Yulia. She is a post-graduate student in literature. After the first people were killed on Hrushevskogo St., she posted about it on Facebook. She felt like screaming about every- thing that had been happening in [Ukraine].

How are democratic citizens supposed to react?
(Kostyantyn Chernichkin/kyivpost.com)

Her friend suggested to make the video of the same statement for more people to see and hear her. They made the video on Hrushevskogo next to the destroyed makeshift hospital. It was very cold then and her speech is uneven sometimes.” I wanted to show that here I am -- a person. If you say there are radicals and terrorists in our streets, then I am a terrorist too,” explains Yulia.

Life in Kiev, Ukraine before police and military began killing civilians

Pussy Riot whipped, beaten, tear gassed by Russian police in Sochi

The head of the Udar (Punch) party Vitali Klitschko speaks to a man as anti-government protesters gather on Independence Square (Maidan) in Kiev on February 21, 2014. Pres. Yanukovych and three main opposition leaders signed a deal to end three-month crisis over the ex-Soviet country's future that has led to ~100 murders by police (AFP/Bulent Kilic).

This deal helps [Ukrainian President] Yanukovych, who can now get the support of Putin's KGB as Pres. Putin will no longer be busy with Sochi [and the Winter Olympics]. If I were a Ukrainian then I would keep the protest going until Yanukovych is finally out and not replaced by another Putin puppet. If Ukrainians do not win now then they will ALWAYS be under Putin's KGB dictatorship. - Donovan Pullen (Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool)

 

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