Seven Dharmachari, Ashley Wells, Amber Dorrian, Wisdom Quarterly
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| A famous fake Buddha quote (H-K-D) |
Sad news on the Buddhist front -- more fake Buddha quotes. But "fake" cuts both ways: The "Nazi Space Buddha" or Iron Man statue
we reported on earlier this month turns out to be fake. And strangely some
fake Buddha quotes are very good
, so good they should have been said by someone, maybe Taoists. But they certainly weren't said by the historical Shakyamuni Buddha
. The sincere photographer H. Kopp Delaney is doing a great deal to promote 108 authentic and inauthentic "Buddha quotes" thus littering the Web with many great fakes.
Nazis' meteorite Buddha fake
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| Iron Man with swastika (Stuttgart U./Elmar Buchner) |
A supposed Buddhist statue allegedly carved from a meteorite 1,000 years ago may not be as ancient as suspected, according to a Buddhism expert who argues that the statue may be a 20th-century fake.
The criticisms don't target the material the statue is carved from, which is an iron- and nickel-rich meteorite from the Siberia-Mongolia border.
But outside experts are questioning the statue's origins.
Achim Bayer, a Buddhism expert at Dongguk University in South Korea, argues in a new report that the
Buddha statue [which is not a statue of the Buddha but of a purported Buddhist "deity" from space -- like
Sakka, who is King of Kings (
deva-maha-rajas) and Lord of Lords (of the
Spaceport of the Thirty-Three or
Tavatimsa-deva-rajas), or the Sky-King
Vessavana, a
maha-raja of one
quadrant of the sky/space visible from Earth] has obvious "pseudo-Tibetan features," marking it as a European reproduction likely made between 1910 and 1970.
[
Nazis loved searching for
UFO artifacts and
time-travel technology, abandoned bases and
gold mines, advanced
Vril technology. They also sought
social remnants of "Aryan" -- a much maligned Buddhist, Hindu, Jain term that rather than racial "purity" refers to
spiritual nobility -- cultures around the world, particularly in Antarctica, where Nazis set up a new country called
New Swabia, and Tibet, where
official Nazi emissaries -- inspired by the spiritual writings of Russian psychic Madame Blavatsky and American Theosophists as well as other-worldly beings --
befriended Vajrayana Buddhists. Tibetans had set up a Vatican-style church-state with
a pope-like figure who served as their temporal-spiritual dictator, a post now occupied by the beloved fourteenth man to fill that post, Tenzin Gyatso, the current Dalai Lama.]
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Swastikas appear on statues (GT)
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Among these features are European-like shoes that come to the ankles rather than boots; trousers instead of robes; tube-shaped sleeves unlike those seen on traditional Tibetan or Mongolian garb; a full beard, which is not seen on Tibetan and Mongolian deity sculptures; an unusual single earring; and a cape that resembles one worn by Romans rather than ancient Tibetan deities.
In their original paper published in the journal
Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Stuttgart University researcher Elmar Bucher and colleagues reported that the Buddha statue first came to Germany after a
1938-1939 Tibet expedition by zoologist and ethnologist Ernst Schäfer, who was sent to the region by the Nazi party to find the origin of Aryan language and culture. The statue then passed into the hands of a private owner.
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| Nonsense. Quotes of dubious origin or translation (H-K-D) |
