Re: The Buddha's racial appearance

Hello All,

I agree with Dmytrio. There is no such thing as
Nepali racial features since Nepal is precisely the
meeting ground of the "indo-european" and "mongoloïd"
stock. It seems it was already the case at the time of
the Buddha (cf E.J. Thomas, The Life of the Buddha,
Legend and History). But since the Buddha is
considered by all source as a kshatriya (khattiya),
the second highest aryan cast or varna, he must have
been of indo-european stock, especially if one
considers that at that early period there wasn't yet
much mixing between the two stocks as was going to
happen later when some invaders from Central Asia were
given the status of Kshatriya to become the present
days Rajputs.

Jacques Huynen

--- "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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