One has to wonder why no one notices how close our friends the Russians are to us, unless WE are the Nazis, continuing enemy Germany's legacy of racism and thirst for world conquest.
The Russians (USSR) are said to be the ones who won the war against Nazi Germany, not the U.S.A. and not the other Allied powers (UK, US, China).
Yet, most Americans (via the corporate mainstream media) would have us believe Russia is our sworn enemy.
Dictator Putin bad, any belligerent U.S. president (like puppet G.W. Bush or secret hand Dick Cheney) good, we're told. We're neighbors and there has never been an attack from Siberia to Alaska.
In fact, most scientists believe the Bering Straits was a land bridge connecting North Asia (Russia's Far East) with the "New World," where the original Native Americans came to the Americas. That is what we are told the DNA and linguistic evidence shows.
Unbelievable! Wall separates the earth in Yakutia?
We doubt it because humans have been in the Americas for tens of thousands of year and did not arrive just once but many times over.
Science will change its mind and give up its false assumptions, like the belief or dogma that there was no sea travel here when there was a great deal of it from Australian aborigines to Polynesians, to ancient Egyptians, Tibetans, and Chinese and Afghan Buddhist missionaries.
Kiun B, YouTube, Jan. 21, 2023; Amber Larson and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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Historically, Buddhism was incorporated into Siberia in the early 17th century [1, 2]. Buddhism is considered to be one of Russia's traditional religions and is legally a part of Russian historical heritage [3].
Besides the historical Buddhist monastic traditions of Buryatia, Tuva, and Kalmykia (the only Buddhist-majority republic in Europe), Buddhism is now spreading all over Russia, with many ethnic Russian converts. More
Yuli-yana Krivoshapkina will conduct a series of masterclasses in various cities across the United States in December 2018.
She is a virtuoso in the art of the khomus(temir komuz), the national instrument of Central Asia's formerly BuddhistSakha Republic. It functions much like a Jew’s harp, but differs in several respects.
Genetic studies show that the Sakha (Yakut) people likely came from ancient Saka [Shakya Land, Sakya, Scythia], who ruled Northeast India (and present-day Pakistan including Taxila) some 2,000 years ago. (The Buddha was, after all, a Saka prince). There are some links to Northern India n culture like the köss, which is the distance traveled while a kettle of water comes to the boil. More
Native American chanting? No. Yakutia men near the Lena Pillars, Sakha
A conventional Jew’s harp is limited in range, volume, and pitch. The khomus is loud and possesses a strikingly expansive range. Yuli-yana’s skill allows her to play sounds across three octaves.
She is the winner of the Ethnic Sound category in the Discovery International Music Pop Festival in Varna, Bulgaria.
She has performed in the USA, Korea, France, Germany, Belgium, Japan, China, Thailand, Holland, Norway, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, and Turkmenistan.
Her music draws on the powers of nature and the wisdom and traditions of the Yakut people to portray the timeless relationship between humans and the universe.
Exact dates and locations to be announced in the near future. Fill out the form to stay updated. More
In 1936, a family of Russian Old Believers journeyed deep into Siberia's vast taiga to escape persecution and protect their way of life. The Lykovs eventually settled in the Sayan [Sakyan?] Mountains, 160 miles from any other sign of civilization. In 1944, Agafia Lykov was born into this wilderness. Today she is the last surviving Lykov, remaining steadfast in her seclusion. In this episode of "Far Out," the VICE crew travels to the hermit Agafia to learn about her taiga lifestyle and the encroaching influence of the outside world.
"The Revenant" (The Revenant) Leonardo DiCaprio stars as the foreign invader and killer of many Native Americans in this all-American adventure of an American who shows true American grit in the American wilderness for all Americans to enjoy (except the Native Americans). Until that bear eats him. Meaningless pain porn. Winner of the Golden Globe for "Best Picture" and #OscarSoWhite the likely contender for the Academy Award in the same category. What is a "revenant," the opposite of a covenant? "To re-venir, to come back from a long absence."
Irish-American Hugh Glass is the original source of Hollywood's "The Revenant."
Hugh Glass (c. 1780–1833) was an Irish-American fur trapper and frontiersman noted for his exploits in the American West during the first third of the 19th century.
Glass was born in Pennsylvania, to Irish parents. He was an explorer of the watershed of the Upper Missouri River in present day North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana. Glass was famed, most of all, as a frontier folk hero for his legendary cross-country trek after being mauled by a grizzly bear.
Glass's most famous adventure began in 1822, when he responded to an advertisement in the Missouri Gazette and Public Adviser, placed by General William Henry Ashley, which called for a corps of 100 men to "ascend the river Missouri" as part of a fur trading venture. These men would later be known as Ashley's Hundred.
(The Folklorist) The Legend of Hugh Glass who survived with help from the Sioux who killed other natives as he aided the westward imperial expansion of the U.S. stealing the land from the original inhabitants in the name of greed and Christianity.
The waters of the Arroyo Seco, Pasadena (WQ)
Besides Glass, others who joined the enterprise included notables such as James Beckwourth, Thomas Fitzpatrick, David Jackson, John Fitzgerald, William Sublette, Jim Bridger, and Jedediah Smith.
Early in the trek, Glass established himself as a hard-working fur trapper. He was apparently wounded on this trip in a battle with Arikara, and later traveled with a party of 13 men to relieve traders at Fort Henry, at the mouth of the Yellowstone River.
The expedition, led by Andrew Henry, planned to proceed from the Missouri, up the valley of the Grand River in present-day South Dakota, then across to the valley of the Yellowstone.
Bear mauling
Near the forks of the Grand River in present-day Perkins County, in August 1823, while scouting ahead of his trading partners for game for the expedition's larder, Glass surprised a grizzly bear mother with her two cubs.
Before he could fire his rifle, the bear charged, picked him up, and threw him to the ground. The bear threw his flesh to its cubs. Glass got up, grappled for his knife, and fought back, stabbing the animal repeatedly as the grizzly raked him time and again with her claws.
Glass managed to kill the bear with help from his trapping partners, Fitzgerald and Bridger, but was left badly mauled and unconscious. Henry (who was also with them) became convinced the man would not survive his injuries.
Henry asked for two volunteers to stay with Glass until he died, and then bury him. Bridger (then 19 years old) and Fitzgerald (then 23 years old) stepped forward, and as the rest of the party moved on, began digging his grave. Later claiming that they were interrupted in the task by an attack by "Arikaree" Indians, the pair grabbed Glass's rifle, knife, and other equipment, and took flight. Bridger and Fitzgerald incorrectly reported to Henry that Glass had died.
Despite his injuries, Glass regained consciousness. He did so only to find himself abandoned, without weapons or equipment, suffering from a broken leg, the cuts on his back exposing bare ribs, and all his wounds festering. Glass lay mutilated and alone, more than 200 miles (320 km) from the nearest American settlement at Fort Kiowa on the Missouri.
In one of the more remarkable treks known to history, Glass set his own leg, wrapped himself in the bear hide his companions had placed over him as a shroud, and began crawling. To prevent gangrene, Glass laid his wounded back on a rotting log and let the maggots eat the dead flesh.
How the West was Won Stolen (Wild West History) Old West Legend Jedediah Smith One hundred million Native Americans slaughtered and infected to institute the British dream of a "United States," with the help of the United Kingdom's arch-rivals, the French, who took Canada. Spain kept Mexico and much of South America. And the new U.S. went on to invade and colonize the Philippines and then Hawaii and other islands. Now the USA is the greatest imperial force in the world -- and "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world," according to MLK -- just like the ancient Romans who killed Jesus. But who cares about accurate history when we can tell ourselves feelgood stories about how this land was empty (just like Israel) and we are the greatest champions of good old Jesus.
Today few Americans have ever heard of a man called Jedediah Smith. Yet, his bold forays into the remaining Native American territories inhabited by Native American tribes and nations for 10 to 15 thousand years, which the U.S. took to calling its "Western frontier" during the early nineteenth century helped shape the course of U.S. history.
(To call it "American history" would deny the fact that most of "America" is not the USA but rather our southern and northern neighbors on the continent).
Since the early 1800s Smith's forgotten legacy has been gathering dust like so many other pioneers and explorers of his time. In this dramatic feature-length special, follow Smith as he navigates the "American West" during the exciting decade of the 1820s.
From being the first white man to recognize the significance of the South Pass in Wyoming to making the treacherous journey by land from Southern California to Oregon, Smith blazed many important trails in his time.
Featuring tales of clashing cultures and dangerous encounters bear attacks and violent battles, THE LEGEND OF JEDEDIAH SMITH brings the long-lost story of a great pioneer to life for a new generation of Americans in the United States.
The golden Sage of the Shakyareclining into final nirvana(Chris&Annabel/Chngster/flickr)
The Saka [Scythians, Tajiks] were a pastoral-nomadic people like the Shakyans, who were agrarian warriors when Siddhartha lived among them. Below, Princess/Queen Tomyris defeats Cyrus the Great in battle. Gold and red Saka princess gear and head wear.
Gold feted bones of ancient Central Asian princess, a Saka, Scythian, possibly a Shakyan
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Formerly Buddhist nations of Central Asia
KAZAKHSTAN, Central Asia - Kazakh archaeologists have discovered a tomb of a “Saka[n] princess,” reports the expedition head Timur Smagulov. The tomb was found during road maintenance in the district of Urdzhar, East Kazakhstan Oblast.
The burial site of a high-ranking young woman was discovered during reconstruction of Taskesken-Bakty Road in Urdzhar.
An expedition team composed of professors and students from Semipalatinsk and Pavlodar Institutes discovered the stone tomb-chest [a reliquary or urn like that containing "The Buddha's Bones" found entombed in a burial mound] with remains of the young woman at the depth of 1.7 meters under a burial mound [possibly a Buddhiststupa, which were reserved for royalty and saints, chakravartins and arhats].
The uncremated remains or ashes and bones of a ruler? (Ра-меси-су Мери-Амон)
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The artifacts found in at the burial site certify that the woman was from a distinguished tribe. According to archaeologists, golden head wear that looks like a Kazakh Saukele (the national headgear of Kazakh women, Saulebeing a common female name from prior to Islamization) was the most valuable research item found.
“The pointed golden head wear with zoomorphic ornaments has the top that looks like the arrows and is decorated with a spiral made of golden wire and jewels. A similar head wear used to be part of the official costume of the Saka tribe chieftains. It is quite possible that the woman was a daughter of a king of Saka Tigrakhauda tribe,” Timur Smagulov explained.
According to him, it is quite possible that young Tomyris, who later became a warrior-queen, used to wear similar head wear.
According to the expedition’s members, ceramic and wooden vessels, as well as bones of a sacrificial lamb, were also discovered in the tomb. Pieces of blue and green clothes still clung to the woman’s remains. Golden earrings and a stone altar were found next to her head.
“According to the preliminary information, the tomb of the 'Urdzhar princess' is dated 4th or 3rd century B.C.,” Smagulov said.
He also notes that a similar tomb was discovered under the Issyk burial mound (called "Golden Man"). [If there were an Aryan "invasion" from the north, which there likely was not, it may have been roaming nomadic Central Asians coming into ancient Indus River Valley Civilization and/or modern India.] More (Tengri News, June 3, 2013)
Golden Man is a Woman (Issyk Kurgan) Situated in Eastern Scythia just north of Sogdiana,
the kurgan contained a skeleton, possibly that of a Scythian [Shakyan] woman, warrior's equipment, and assorted
funerary goods, including 4,000 gold ornaments. Although the sex of the
skeleton is uncertain, it may have been an 18-year-old Saka (Scythian) prince or princess. The richness of the burial items led the skeleton to be dubbed the
"Golden Man" or "Golden Princess," with "Golden Man" subsequently
being adopted as one of the symbols of modern Kazakhstan. A likeness crowns the Independence Monument on the central square of Almaty. Its depiction may also be found on the Presidential Standard of Nursultan Nazarbayev. More
The Kremlin in Red Square, Moscow: imperial capital of vast land holdings that again include Crimea but not the "Stans" of Central Asia, formerly Buddhist countries overtaken by Islam.
It tells the story of Agvan Dorziev, a Mongolian Buddhist Lama, who was
instrumental in the founding of Buddhism in Russia.
[Russia/USSR as an empire spread out to include many formerly Buddhist lands in Central Asia. It also contains Kalmykia -- Europe's only indigenous Buddhist country, the home of international chess tournaments and Lenin's grandmother. The shamans of Siberia practice a shramanic/shamanistic form of Esoteric Buddhism from Mongolia, Tibet, Western China, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and faraway Afghanistan (Gandhara, India), Russia's "Vietnam." With secret CIA help, Afghans eventually repelled the USSR so the USA/MIC could illegally invade, occupy, and plunder it.]
The book includes an update
on the status of Buddhism in Russia since Glasnost.
NUMBERS: There are under-counted Russian Buddhists throughout the country -- particularly in Buryatia, Yakutia (Sakha Republic), Kalmykia, and Siberia -- with census numbers reflecting more "atheists," "animists," and "Eastern Orthodox Christians" as if any of these designations negated one's Buddhist beliefs or practices. A Moscovite who practices the Dharma will still routinely be listed as an official atheist (formerly a good Communist party member) unless s/he is from a Buddhist Russian republic or territory.
John Snelling's major work was being completed when he passed away in 1992. It tells a fascinating story about Ven.
Agvan Dorzhiev, a brilliant Mongolian lama and the Tibetan capital's emissary to Russia
in the 19th century.
Arrayed against the backdrop of the fiercely
Orthodox court of the Russian Tsars -- with its sacred religio-political [unseparated church and state] dominance
over nearly every aspect of Russian life, the extraordinary progress
made by Ven. Dorzhiev in setting Tibetan Buddhism on a solid footing in that
land is a story of remarkable courage and success.
Snelling's books can be a bit dry and academic, but his
scholarship shines, and the text is surefooted and informative. The book's success rests on its thoroughness. Snelling
takes a comprehensive look at the early and post-Communist state of
Buddhism in Russia.
The enormous expanse of Russia bordering the rest of Northern Europe on the left and Siberia on the right with America just to the right beyond the Bering Straits. Buddhist Kalmykia is shown in red on the shores of the Caspian Sea.
This, indeed, makes a valuable contribution to the study of the spread and influence of Buddhism as a world religion. It even
speculates with respect to the future of the Dharma in Russian Asia.
Included are some
marvelous photos of Ven. Dorzhiev and a brilliant mini-history of the
Buryats (from which he arose). While
readable, it is definitely a specialist's book. More than biography, less than hagiography -- it concerns itself with what is rather than what if.
I want a Pussy Riot! - We do, too, Comrade.
In any case, it is a tale unlikely to be told anywhere else.
Certainly, it is told nowhere else with as much authority, passion, and carefully wrought scrutiny as Snelling delivers.
Recommended for anyone inclined toward the myriad diversity of Buddhist
history beyond India and Southeast Asia.
This is a welcomed reappraisal of Churchill, a film
incorporates information from Soviet files not available until the
1990s. One important outcome is a new and welcome delineation of the
lying duplicity of England's Winston Churchill, his involvement in handing half of Europe
to Russian Dictator Joseph Stalin, sentencing the Eastern Bloc nations to half a century of
Stalinist (Orwellian) suffering. On the whole, it presents a view of history
distinct from stories regurgitated in the West... More
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