Scythian-Saka-Siberian Buddhist monuments

Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Stupas (Buddhist burial mounds) are ancient Central Asian-Ukrainian kurgans (Trizna 1899 )

Bezeklik: White Sogdian merchants giving to the Buddha (Buddhism in Central Asia/Wiki)

The Monks of the Mines of ancient Afghanistan, Gandhara, Kapilavastu, Central Asia (NatGeo)

The Indo-Sakas are Scythians.

The monuments of these cultures coincide with Scythian-Saka-Siberian [Shakya Land or ancient Buddhist Kapilavastu] monuments. Scythian, Indo-Saka, and Siberian monuments have common features and sometimes common genetic roots [10].

Also associated with these spectacular burial mounds (Buddhist stupas or tepes) are the Pazyryk, an ancient people who lived in the Altai Mountains lying in Siberian Russia on the Ukok Plateau, near the borders with China, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia [11].

The Buddha of Gandhara/Afghanistan (Indo-Saka)

The archeological site on the Ukok Plateau associated with the Pazyryk culture is included in the Golden Mountains of Altai UNESCO World Heritage Site [12].

Scythian-Saka-Siberian classification includes monuments from the 8th to the 3rd century BC. This period is called the Early or Ancient Nomads epoch.

"Hunnic" monuments date from the 3rd century BC to the 6th century AD, and Turkic ones from the 6th century AD to the 13th century AD, leading up to the Mongolian epoch. More

• What is a Buddhist stupa or pagoda? It is a burial mound covering a sacred reliquary marking out nobles (Aryan = "Enlightened" beings) or chakravartin rulers or other important figures. Originally, they had statues on top of those buried beneath the kurgan, tumulus, barrow, or cairn, a pile of stones forming the burial mound, as was tradition throughout Central Asia, up into Ukraine, North Asia, West Asia, and many Caucasian lands.
• Kyrgyzstan | Silk Roads Program (unesco.org)
• Buddhism in Central Asia (Wik
• Sogdia (Sogdiana) Empire