Theravada Buddhism has been a significant part of Thai culture and society for over 2,000 years, with an esoteric history that is being forgotten and replaced.
WARNING: This video and information seem to suggest that the Buddha or his extended family clan (the
Sakas,
Scythians, Shakyians) were "white," which is a modern
social construct. Aryan (noble = enlightened) has nothing to do with race. German Nazis, particularly Goebbels, gave it that racist meaning, appropriating the mythology/reality of an advanced race of beings who live in our Hollow Earth (called
Agartha), which is all part of ancient Indian (Buddhist, Vedic, Hindu, Jain, Theosophical, etc.) lore. The Buddha was Central Asian, not what we could today classify as Caucasian. According to maverick Indian historian Dr. Ranajit Pal, the Buddha's mother (Maha Maya Devi and the Buddha's foster mother, her sister,
Maha Pajapati Gotami) were from
Sistan and Baluchestan, which today is considered part of Greater Iranian/Ariyan territories, so he would have looked to us to have those features claimed by whites as exclusively "white" when it is not. The Buddhist peoples of what is today Bamiyan, Afghanistan, in the Buddha's time called Kapilavastu,
Gandhara, are not the Pashtuns there today. (The
Yazidis should not be confused with those original Sakas/Scythians, a displaced Buddhist tribe known as the
Hazara, as casually watching the video might lead one to assume. There are many light-eyed, light-skinned people from around Asia, throughout Central Asia, North Asia, Turkey, the geopolitical Middle East, as it is not rare in the Eurasian region and Siberia/Russia).
Bamiyan was one of three seasonal capitals where the Buddha grew up, which is not named other than Kapilavastu (for the country or
mahajanapada name as well as the names of those three seasonal capitals, as if they were all occupying the same spot, when they were spread out over the land we would now call
Afghanistan and
Pakistan, site of today Gandhara and the very important ancient city of
Taxila.
Who were the Hazara of Bamiyan?
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| How eerily similar where the Hazara once lived (Bamiyan) and now live (Quetta) |
.Hazara culture refers to the culture of the Hazara people, who live primarily in and around the city of
Quetta, which is located in Southwest Baluchistan, Pakistan. The culture of the Hazara people is rich in heritage, with many unique customs and traditions.
It shares influences with Persian [Iranian = Ariyan], Mongol and various
Central Asian cultures. The Hazara people make up to 900,000 of the population of Pakistan.
Origin
The origins of the Hazara are disputed, though there are three primary theories. The Hazara could be of Turko-Mongol ancestry, descendants of an occupying army left in Afghanistan by
Genghis Khan. A second theory goes back two millennia to the
Kushan Dynasty, when Bamiyan in Afghanistan – home to the large Buddha statues blown up by the Taliban – was an ancient center of Buddhist civilization.
Subscribers to this idea point to the similar facial structure of the Hazaras with those of
Buddhist murals and statues in the region.
The most widely accepted theory is something of a compromise: The Hazara are
mixed-race. Certain Mongol tribes did travel to Eastern Persia and what is modern-day
Afghanistan, putting down roots and integrating with the indigenous community.
This group then formed their own community that became the Hazara, with their distinctive facial features, sometimes termed
Mongoloid, which bear the origins of their
Central Asian ancestry.
Either way the Hazara settled in Central Afghanistan, though in the mid-19th century their brutal history of persecution began when more than half their population was killed or forced into exile.
The Pashtun Amir Abdul Rehman, whom the British termed Afghanistan’s Iron Amir during the Raj, invaded the Hazara homeland in the country’s central highlands, forcing them to give up land, and pushing many into exile in Balochistan.
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