How did Buddhism reach China?

(Natasha Yehenara) How did Buddhism reach China? Buddhism in China, Greco-Buddhism, the Buddha (Scythian Prince Siddhartha Gautama) was from Gandhara (Central Asia), modern Afghanistan (likely Buddhas of Bamiyan, Mes Aynak, and Kabul as one of the three seasonal capitals all collectively referred to as Kapilavastu). See Dr. Ranajit Pal: Non-Jonesian Indology and Alexander  #academia #Buddhism #historyfacts #Gandhara #GrecoBuddhism #ChineseCulture

There were GIANTS: Baal, Asuras, Tiwanaku

The MEGALITHIC mystery of Baalbek — Massive stones no one can explain

(Uncharted Mysteries) Nov. 1, 2025: Something about Baalbek (ancient Heliopolis) doesn’t make sense — an ancient platform in Lebanon [next to modern Israel] built from stone blocks so massive that no known method could have moved them.

One of these blocks weighs over 1,500 tons, yet it was somehow carved, transported, and stacked with perfect precision thousands of years ago. The mystery of how and why it was built has divided historians, engineers, and archeologists for decades.

In this short documentary, we’ll explore the origins of Baalbek, who might have built it, and the incredible techniques that made it possible.

• Baal [6][7][8] or Baʿal [9][a] was a title with the honorific meaning "lord" or "owner" in the Northwest Semitic languages spoken in the Levant during antiquity. From its use among people, it came to be applied to gods [11]. Scholars previously associated the theonym ("name of god") with solar cults and with a variety of unrelated patron deities, but inscriptions have shown that the name Baal was particularly associated with the storm and fertility god Hadad and his local manifestations [12]. The Ugaritic god Baal (𐎁𐎓𐎍) is the protagonist of one of the lengthiest surviving epics from the ancient Near East, the Baal Cycle. Known by epithets like “rider of the clouds” and “Victorious Baal,” he [like India's Indra/Sakra and ancient Greece's Zeus] was associated with rain, lightning, wind, fertility, and kingship, and was often depicted in opposition to sea and death deities like Yammu and Mot. More

From the colossal Trilithon stones to the legends of gods and giants, this investigation reveals why Baalbek remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the ancient world.

Helios (Sun) City: Is Sun conscious? (Sheldrake)

The Asuras (Titans) of Buddhism and Hinduism

Asuras (Sanskrit असुर) are a class of beings in Dharmic religions [1]. They are described as power-seeking beings related to the more benevolent Devas (also known as Suras) in Hinduism.

• If Suras are "gods" then A-suras are "anti-gods." In Buddhism, they came to earth when Sakka (Indra), King of the Devas, through them out of his heaven (the Realm of the Thirty-Three), but as proof that Suras and Asuras very closely related, Sakka's wife is said to be an Asuran princess.

In a Buddhist context, the word Asura is translated as "titan," "demigod," and "antigod" [2]. According to Hindu texts, the Asuras are in constant fear of the Devas [3]: 2–6.

Asuras are described in Indian texts as powerful superhuman demigods with good or bad qualities. In early Vedic literature, the good Asuras are called Adityas and are led by Varuna, while the malevolent ones are called Danavas and are led by Vritra [4]: 4.

In the earliest layer of Vedic texts, Agni, Indra, and other gods (Devas) are also called Asuras, in the sense of their being "lords" of their respective domains, knowledge, and abilities.

In later Vedic and post-Vedic texts, the benevolent gods are called Devas, while malevolent Asuras compete against these Devas and are considered "enemy of the gods" [4][5].

Asuras are part of Hinduism along with Yakshas (ogres, shapeshifting nature protectors, monsters, spirits), Rakshasas (fierce man-eating ogres, ghouls, demons), Bhutas (ghosts), and many more.

Asuras have been featured in many cosmological theories and legends in Hinduism and Buddhism [6][7][8]. More

Older mother of all civilizations? Scientists now think Tiwanaku was first civilization

(Origins Explained) Scientists think Tiwanaku, Peru, is actually the first ever civilization

Scientists think Tiwanaku was the first civilization

(Origins Explained) Nov. 18, 2025: Origins Explained Daily. I’ve wanted to tell this story for ages because Tiwanaku feels like a secret the mountains kept to themselves. High above Lake Titicaca is Bolivia’s megalithic heartland to see laser-like stonework, the Akapana pyramid, Kalasasaya, and new DNA clues that change what we think we know. Then we’ll step into Pumapunku’s mind-bending blocks, lake-buried offerings to Viracocha, and a newly found temple at Palaspata that ties the whole network together. Love ancient engineering, origin myths, and real science challenging wild theories? Then this is a great episode.

• 0:00 Intro
• 0:30 TIWANAKU
• 16:59 Puma Punku
• 22:38 Tiwanaku’s mystery, now with DNA
• 28:41 The sunken altar

Step into the forgotten world of ancient civilizations and lost cities: Lost Cities and Ancient Civilizations

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• Uncharted Mysteries, the MEGALITHIC Mystery of Baalbek — Massive Stones No One Can Explain

Lost Greek-Buddhists of Alexander

1st human representation of the Buddha: Gandhara

The LOST Greek Buddhists: The Untold Story of Alexander's Monks

(Buddha's Wisdom) 🗡️ When Greek Warriors Became Buddhist Monks: History's Greatest Plot Twist. In 326 BCE, Alexander's unstoppable army met something their swords couldn't conquer -- the wisdom of naked monks (Gymnosophists). Greek warriors laid down their weapons to follow the Buddha's path, sparking one of history's most fascinating cultural fusions.

Discover how fierce Greek soldiers became peaceful Buddhist monks, why they created the world's first Buddha statues, and what happened when Greek philosophy met Buddhist enlightenment.

From lost kingdoms to hidden [Central Asian] monasteries, uncover the epic story that changed both East and West forever.

🗡️MAJOR REVEALS

• The warrior who dropped his sword and changed history
• The Greek king who chose enlightenment over empire
• Recently discovered scrolls that reveal ancient secrets
• The stunning truth about the Buddha's familiar face
• New evidence of undiscovered monasteries

🎯 KEY MOMENTS

• 0:00 Introduction
• 2:03 Warriors Meet Wisdom
• 6:38 The Naked Truth
• 9:18 Kingdom of Two World
• 13:08 The Face of Buddha
• 17:10 The Lost Scrolls
• 23:05 Legacy of the Lost Monks
• 17:59 Conclusion

Support this channel: Buy us a coffee ☕: buymeacoffee.com/buddhaswisdom. Join in as archaeology meets adventure in this untold tale of warriors, wisdom, and one of history's greatest transformations. #Buddhism #History #AncientGreece #Philosophy #Archaeology

• Scythian Prince Siddhartha, the Buddha, was from Gandhara
• Greco-Buddhist art: fusion of East and West
• Gandhara grave culture (Pakistan, Afghanistan, India)
• Partition of India led to creation of Pakistan (formerly part of Northwest India, with Afghanistan in Central Asia or Indo-Sakastan, as its neighbor)

• Buddha's Wisdom, 11/19/24; Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The real and fairytale "Jesus" (video)

Wisdom Quarterly; Mitch Jeserich ("Letters & Politics," Dec. 24, 2013, KPFA.org, Berkeley), Dr. Reza Aslan (rezaaslan.com, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth)

The Christ story (as opposed to accounts of the historical Jesus of Nazareth) borrows much from Buddhism. Christian scholar Reza Aslan explains the two Jesuses very well in Zealot.

Fox News' Lauren Green attacks historian Prof. Reza Aslan, Ph.D., why a former Christian and current Muslim would write about Jesus. It's reactionary, Islamophobic FOX "News" at its best.

Zealot (amazon.com)

Religious scholar Dr. Reza Aslan discusses his fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography about the historical Jesus [Yah'shua or Joshua or Son-of-Zeus].

It calls into question everything Westerners in Judeo-Christian societies thought we knew about Jesus of Nazareth.

 

Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher (rabbi) and miracle worker [siddha] walked across the Galilee, gathering followers [as an anti-imperial rebel like many modern Palestinians] to establish what he called the “Kingdom of God.” 

Good St. Issa as a bodhisattva

The revolutionary movement he launched was so threatening to the established order that he was captured, tortured, and executed as a state criminal.

 

Two decades after his shameful death, his followers would call him God. 

 

Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Dr. Aslan sheds new light on one of history’s most influential and enigmatic characters by examining Jesus through the lens of the tumultuous era in which he lived: first century Palestine, an age awash in apocalyptic fervor. 

• Letters & Politics, 12/24/13, 10:00 am
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• Whistleblower journalist Glenn Greenwald excerpt at Minute 48:00

Scores of Jewish prophets, preachers, and would-be messiahs [which always simply meant someone aiming to save Jews from Roman rule] traipsed through the Holy Land, bearing messages from God. 

 

Fairytale: white savior like Thor

This is the age of zealotry -- a fervent nationalism that made resistance to the Roman occupation a sacred duty incumbent on all Jews. And few figures better exemplified this principle than the charismatic Galilean who defied both the imperial authorities and their allies in the Jewish religious hierarchy.

 

Balancing the Jesus of the Gospels against the historical sources, Dr. Aslan explores this diverse and turbulent age and, in doing so, challenges the conventional portraits of Jesus of Nazareth. He describes a man full of conviction and passion, yet rife with contradiction:

• a man of peace who exhorted his followers to arm themselves with swords;
• an exorcist and faith healer who urged his disciples to keep his identity a secret;
• and ultimately, the seditious “King of the Jews” whose promise of liberation from Rome went unfulfilled in his brief lifetime.

Aslan explores the reasons why the early Christian church preferred to promulgate an image of Jesus as a peaceful spiritual teacher rather than a politically conscious revolutionary.

• [Biblical scholar Allegro points out that the Jesus cover-story came from an entheogen-using Jewish cult, possibly the Essenes, whose sacrament and "cross" was the magic mushroom. It provided them direct mystical experiences. The BBC documents that Jesus was a Buddhist monk. He returned from 18 lost years in India with long hair to continue his rebel and messianic activities to free the Jews.]

Vishnu, I'm going back to Palestine. - Good luck.

And he grapples with the riddle of how Jesus understood himself (as a Jew, a "messiah," a "god," and a man), the mystery that is at the heart of all subsequent claims about his divinity.

Zealot questions what we thought we knew about Jesus of Nazareth -- even as it affirms the radical and transformative nature of his life and mission. The result is a thought-provoking, elegantly written biography with the pulse of a fast-paced novel: a singularly brilliant portrait of a man, a time, and the birth of a religion.

 

“Riveting...Aslan synthesizes Scripture and scholarship to create an original account.”

—The  New Yorker

“A lucid, intelligent page-turner.”

—Los Angeles Times

“Fascinatingly and convincingly drawn.”

—The Seattle Times

“[Aslan’s] literary talent is as essential to the effect of Zealot as are his scholarly and journalistic chops. . . . A vivid, persuasive portrait.”

—Salon
“This tough-minded, deeply political book does full justice to the real Jesus, and honors him in the process.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

Forgotten Aryan tribes of India (video)

Benoy Behl, March 28, 2013; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Here are some forgotten Aryan tribes excerpted from Spectacular India (Number 5). In remote parts of Ladakh, Buddhist India, with its capital of Leh being the closest thing to a Tibetan city surviving after the Chinese invasion, destruction, and occupation of Lhasa. This ancient culture survives to this day in relative isolation. A film by culture historian Benoy K. Behl.

The Androgynous Race, Tartaria, Ireland (video)

Mind Unveiled, April 1, 2019; Pat Macperson, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Androgynous Race (TARTARIA ORIGINS)

This short video goes over the androgynous race -- a secret that has been preserved through allegory and myth. This is an additional piece to the puzzle of what is now being called "Tartaria" (Tartary). It seems Plato knew the truth: sacred-texts.com/cla/plato..., sacred-texts.com/cla/plato.... There are also hints toward the secret of the symbol of Mercury, or Hermes. More will be coming soon.

NPR mocks discovery of Plato's Atlantis (audio)

Andy Bowers (Day to Day); Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; DailyMail

An illustration of Atlantis, circa 1600  (Fox Photos/Getty Images via NPR)

We've found the lost city of Atlantis...again
We have the great Greek philosopher Plato to thank for the ongoing obsession with the lost city [actually a continent] of Atlantis. Around 360 BCE, Plato wrote that Atlantis was a great and wonderful empire destroyed some 11,000 years before by earthquakes and floods during a 24-hour period. Here are just some of the many theories advanced over the years about where and what Atlantis was:

Mayans, Mexico, or Egypt

Aztecs, Mayans in pre-Mexico, Tlatelolco

In the 19th century, several researchers suggested that ancient Mayan hieroglyphs spoke of a lost continent, and therefore, the site may have been near Mexico. The theory went that the Mayans had interacted with the ancient Egyptians who, in turn, passed the tale of Atlantis down to the ancient Greeks, which is where Plato got it. [But Plato said he had detailed memories of a past life or lives in Atlantis.] But that theory lost steam when it became clear that early Mayanologists didn't fully understand the culture's complex hieroglyphs.

Mexico City when it was Tenochtitlan

In 1912, the public caught Atlantis fever, thanks to an article titled How I Found the Lost Atlantis in William Randolph Hearst's New York American. It was written by a man claiming to be the grandson of Heinrich Schliemann, the archaeologist who excavated Troy [Ancient Greece]. He'd alleged that Trojan artifacts revealed Atlantis' true location, submerged in the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the United States.

The Azores

Is it an underwater city like Mexico?

The Azores were supposedly the tips of Atlantean mountains. But the author disappeared [or was silenced] soon after the article was published, and it's now widely viewed as one of the great yellow journalism hoaxes [because to admit he was neutralized would suggest the truth of Atlantis].

• Azores underwater pyramid discovered: Atlantis Pyramid discovered underwater off the coast of Terceira Island.
• Location hypotheses of Atlantis (wiki) One of the suggested places for Atlantis is around the Azores Islands, a group of islands belonging to Portugal... 
• VIDEO: Atlantis Azores: pyramid, city discovered underwater
• Azores : Lost Continent of Atlantis
• "Sao Miguel and the Azores: Misty Fragments of Atlantis" 
• Atlantis in the Azores (Atlantis Rising Magazine) The sunken city was out of place in the Bahamas but must lie, he believed, among the Azores.
• UPDATED! Underwater pyramid found in Azores 
• Lost City of Atlantis may been found National Geographic documentary called "Atlantis Rising"

Greek, Portugal, or Brazil

The 9 Azores Islands, mountain tops of the continent of Atlantis, Portugal's Açores

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Volcanic cliffs of the mysterious Azores Islands

Other 20th century accounts placed Atlantis off the coast of Portugal, on a Greek island and even in the Brazilian rain forest, although the British explorer who went to prove that theory was never heard from again. [Was he silenced or lost in the perilous jungle?] Not to be outdone, the early 21st century has seen a flurry of Atlantis-itis.

Spain, Mediterranean, or Ireland

Irish-Atlantis, submerged North Sea shoal

In June, a German physicist claimed the lost city was actually a region in southern Spain. Also this year, a Swedish geographer proposed that Atlantis wasn't near the Mediterranean at all but was, in fact, Ireland. He says the size of the Emerald Isle syncs up nicely with Plato's estimate and that the destruction myth was inspired by the submerging of a North Sea shoal around 6100 BC.

Ireland: Land of the Pharaohs by Andrew Power (Egypt linked to Atlantis)

• In Search of Noah's Ark and Atlantis
• More Slate features heard on Day to Day 
• From fish with human-like teeth to a fox frozen in ice: Mother Nature's dark side revealed
• VIDEO: Has lost city of Atlantis been found at last?
  

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How to RAPE: "The Hunting Ground" (video)

I. Rony, Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Director Kirby Dick, Producer Amy Ziering, Amy Goodman (DemocracyNow.org, Jan. 28, 2015); BBC; Femen.org

Instructions: Get into a US university, join the football team, target emotionally vulnerable person drinking alone, attack, allow the institution to cover it up for you, then repeat (VU).

Vanderbilt covers up rapes.

SUNDANCE, Utah - Just as a jury in Tennessee has convicted two former Vanderbilt University football players of raping an unconscious student in a dorm room, a groundbreaking new documentary about rape and sexual assault on college campuses across the country is premiering at Sundance.

Rapists Brandon Vandenburg and Cory Batey could face decades in prison after being convicted of a combined total of 16 felony counts, including aggravated rape.

The Hunting Ground

(RTWC) An exposé of rape on U.S. campuses, institutional cover-ups, and the brutal social toll on victims and their families. With first-person testimonies, the film follows survivors who pursue an education while fighting for justice and to protect others -- despite harsh retaliation, harassment, and pushback at every level.

Tufts violated Title IX, student rape

Two other former Vanderbilt football players, Brandon Banks and Jaborian McKenzie, are awaiting trial over their role in the rape.

However, the court cases mark a rare example where students accused of sexual assault have actually faced punishment.

Who's a riot? (femen.org)

Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, "The Hunting Ground" (FB) shows how colleges and universities across the USA are covering up rapes and sexual assaults and failing to protect students from repeat offenders. 

Democracy Now! speaks with the film’s director, Kirby Dick, and producer, Amy Ziering. Their previous film, "The Invisible War," which exposed the epidemic of sexual assault in the military, won the Audience Award at Sundance in 2012 and was nominated for an Academy Award.

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The Invisible War

(CD/InvisibleWarMovie.com) From Oscar and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick (This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Twist of Faith) comes "The Invisible War," a groundbreaking investigative documentary about one of America's most shameful and best-kept secrets -- the epidemic of rape of males and females by fellow soldiers within the U.S. military.

The film paints a startling picture of the extent of the problem: Today, a female soldier in combat zones is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire.

Twenty percent of all active-duty female servicewomen report being sexually assaulted. The total number who are actually assaulted is far higher as most attacks go unreported or, if reported, ignored and covered up.

The Invisible War: military rape epidemic

Profoundly moving, the film follows the stories of several idealistic young servicewomen who were raped and then betrayed by their own officers when they courageously came forward to report. 

Date rape of men? "Boost" (#yesallwomen)

Both a rallying cry for the hundreds of thousands of men and women who've been assaulted and a hopeful road map for change, "The Invisible War" is one of those rare films so powerful it has already helped change military policy. WATCH NOW

"You DESERVE rape," says worst campus preacher ever (TYT)

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