The fact that, for instance, some "noble" men in
France or in Russia (Tolstoi), during the
pre-Revolution era, were against hereditary orders or
"class" (caste) did not prevent them from being
categorized in that class by the society in which they
lived. In the same way Enrico Berlinguer, general
secretary of the Italian communist party, was an
"aristocrat". That did not keep him from being,
consistently with the Party line, against "hereditary"
nobility while the Party considered itself a
"proletarian elite", non hereditary in principle.

Jacques Huynen

--- "K. Loganathan" <ulagankmy@...> wrote:

> 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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