"India" (IVC) before the Buddha (video)

Dhr. Seven and Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly

First human representations of the historical Shakyamuni Buddha from Scythia, Gandhara, Indo-Sakastan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, once part of ancient Greece in Central Asia (WQ).

Portions of ancient "Shakya Land"

In the "Rebirth Tales" (Jatakas) the Buddha recounts a tiny fraction of his past lives, prior to being reborn as Prince Siddhartha Gautama of the Shakya Clan in what is today Afghanistan, near the ancient Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), northwest of what today regard as "India." In one such tale he recounts being reborn along with Ananda, who in his final rebirth was the Buddha's trusted cousin and attendant, in modern Taxila (Takkasila), Gandhara, where there existed a great university.

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The Buddha (Taxila Museum)

That this university existed was possible due to the previous IVC that flourished in northwest India in the foothills of the Himalayas in what are now Afghanistan, Gandhara, Sakastan (collectively parts of formerly Hellenistic Bactria), Seistan and Baluchistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kashmir, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Tibet, and the great Hindu Kush in general. What was this IVC like of which so little is known? Excavations and archeological explorations of the last five decades are revealing much of the antiquity of proto-India and the culture that gave rise to that followed by the Shakya Clan and 100 million Hindus (formerly followers of Vedantic Brahmanism) and Jains, a wandering-ascetic (shramanic/non-Vedic) tradition most similar to Buddhism.

There once was a ruler from the area of Shakya Land/Scythia named King Pukkusati.

Who were the ancient Scythians or Shakyians, living along the Silk Road in Afghanistan?

The Original Stonehenge (Adam's Calendar)

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Every year European's gather at Stonehenge in England to mark the Summer Solstice. While this is a wonderful commemoration linking us to ancient generations of humans and the advanced technology that was delivered from above and developed here for the betterment of the planet, it obscures the fact that there are many megalithic "Stonehenges," even one in America.

But according to Michael Tellinger the oldest sits in the cradle of human civilization. Of course, human species (plural) are far older than we are allowed to believe. (Sacred texts and oral tradition across the planet as well as forbidden archeology tell us that). But the current dominant manifestation of our human race (Homo sapien sapien becoming Homo spiritus) seems to have been rooted in Africa.



Egypt, it may surprise many, is in Africa. We forget that in much the same way we are taught to forget that the ancient Egyptians were Africans. Or that Jesus was associated with Africa. And that the only Biblical description of him is as a typically black male. And the incredible Nile feeds more than Egypt, having once flowed out of Eden.

Africa has other amazing artifacts beyond the pyramids -- from the ancient (pre-Islamic) university (center of higher education buried by European explorers who stumbled on its treasures and the significance of what the ancient Africans had achieved) at Timbuktu (possibly older than the oldest Buddhist university, Nalanda, which is often credited with being the first of its kind, or Taxila), fossils in the Great Rift Valley to Adam's Calendar.

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Reviving 2,500-year-old Buddhist University

Taxila: The World's First University

Revival of 2,500-year-old Buddhist university planned
WQ, TheNews.com.pk, April 14, 2009

Islamabad -- Gandhara Art and Culture Association (GACA) has planned to revive the 2,500 year old Buddhist University of Taxila with the contemporary features of the 21st century.

Chief monk of Korea, Jeon Woon Deok, who is currently visiting Pakistan, has approved the site for the institute for which government has fully supported, Zulfiqar Rahim, director GACA told APP [in Pakistan] Monday [4/13/09].

The project of reviving the first university in the world, which dates back to 700 B.C.E., will take three years to complete with the help of government, public and private agencies, and Buddhist countries like Korea, Japan, and China to restore the existing monastery to its original look.

The idea will also boost the country's tourist industry as Buddhists from around the world visit Pakistan to perform their holy rituals, he said. GACA, he said, has also proposed the government to hold "21st Century Peace Caravan" organizing from Taxila and traveling to China, Korea, and Japan via the ancient Silk Route.

The association organized a two-day seminar on "Promotion and Preservation of Gandhara Art in Pakistan" in which the chief monk called for peace and harmony, as the world faces religious conflict and racial tension.

While talking about the essence of Buddhism, the chief monk said that Gandhara was the hub of all cultures and religions. Commercial activities by all the world's major religions co-existed here in a very peaceful and harmonious way. ["Pakistan,"] Korea, China, and Japan were traditionally Buddhist cultures with roots in Gandhara, he remarked. Source