Just wondering: Was Gautama Buddha a <representative of Ariya higher varna> as claimed below? I am shocked for I thought Buddha preached against VarNa Thinking. Am I wrong here? Is this an attempt to introduce the typical European racialism into Buddhism which has not seen any racialism at all and does not condone it right from the beginning.
Loga
"Dmytro O. Ivakhnenko" <
aavuso@...> wrote:
Hi Thomas,
> I wonder any one in this group knows the Buddha's racial appearance
> according to the Pali texts. He was born in the Nepal region. The
> inhabitants in the region at that time may be closer to the Himalayan
> race.
As a representative of Ariya higher varna, Buddha must have looked like
like Slav, Osset, or Persian (Iranian-Afghan).
Genetic analysis shows that the higher varnas in India still are much
closer genetically to Europeans, than the lower varnas.
http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/articles/05_01/Indo-European.shtml
https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/atlas.html
Probably the earliest Gandhara and Mathura images preserve his features:
http://www.answers.com/topic/buddhahead-jpg
http://www.gandhara.com.au/gandhara_showcase5.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MathuraBodhisattvaSide.JPG
Regards,
Dmytro
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