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

Peace Walk ends: Buddhist monks reach DC

Aloka: So we turn around and start to walk back now? There are so many people I want to see.

(DWS News) Full speech: Leader of Buddhist monks and friend of Aloka the Peace Dog's Peace Walk at American University shares life-changing mindfulness teachings | AK1E

• American University, Washington, D.C.
• What is "mindfulness" in Buddhism?
• Who is Aloka the Dog on Peace Walk?

• 

  Mala (prayer rosary): 108 beads (Rosary)

  Q: Why did it take exactly 108 days? A: The number 108 (a full mala or rosary) is considered sacred by the Dharmic religions, such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism. According to Sri Lankan Theravada scholar-monk Bhante G (abbot of the Bhāvanā Society in West Virginia), 108 is reached by multiplying the senses of smell, touch, taste, hearing, sight, and consciousness by whether they are painful, pleasant, or neutral, then again by whether they are internally generated or externally occurring, and again by whether they are in the past, present, or future. Finally, we get 108 feelings: (6×3×2×3 = 108). So the number 108 represents all the possible sensory states one could experience. More

TODAY'S LIVESTREAM

Day 108: Peace Walk, Washington Nat'l Cathedral

“Walk for Peace” ends at American U; monks call for unity and compassion

(The National Desk) Buddhist monks end 2,300-mile Walk for Peace in DC

Livestream: Day 108 Peace Walk arrives at Washington National Cathedral

(DWS News) FULL MARCH: Buddhist monks arrive in DC, speeches, 2,300-mile walk with Aloka the Peace Dog, meet students at American University | AC1E

(WUSA9) Buddhist monks draw massive crowds in Alexandria, during cross-country Peace Trek

(FOX 5 Washington DC) Hundreds brave cold to greet Buddhist monks in Alexandria (Virginia)

Before dawn in rural Virginia, Buddhist monks’ Walk for Peace draws crowds seeking hope

• Buddhist music: chanting as a spiritual practice
• What are they saying? Pali canon's sutras + blessings

(Reuters) LIVE: Buddhist monks on 2,300-mile peace walk now reach Arlington, Virginia. They arrive and enter to cheers at Minute 47:37

(ABC 7 News - WJLA) Venerable monks touch hearts, Walk for Peace in Virginia, en route to DC

(FOX 5 Washington DC) Buddhist monk reflects on Walk for Peace in sit-down with FOX 5

Venerable Buddhist monks touch hearts during Walk for Peace in Virginia en route to DC

(ABC 7 News - WJLA) Feb. 6, 2026: “If you’re not at peace, where are we?" said Caroline County resident Sue Iszczenko while she and her daughter Kayla waited for the venerable Buddhist monks to walk past them on their route from Texas to Washington, D.C., promoting inner and world peace.

Hi, I'm Aloka the Peace Dog

In a time defined by [Trump] turmoil, with a nation fractured, hundreds came from far and wide, gathering roadside in rural Caroline County to witness 20 Buddhist monks [and a dog named Aloka] journey a portion of 2,300 arduous miles – from Texas to D.C. – advocating for harmony in a world gone haywire. More: wjla.com/news/local/venerable...

So sweet — when Buddhist monks walking for peace make everyone smile

(AmeriScope) Feb. 5, 2026: Some moments don’t need to be explained. We see them — and we smile spontaneously. This video captures one of those moments. It is so sweet in its simplicity that Americans naturally slow down and feel lighter, even if for just a moment.

(True Way of Buddha) Poor woman asked me, "Will I die poor?"

Ven. Abbot Pannakara | Walk for Peace Monks and Aloka

 

Nothing here is planned. Nothing is performed. The sweetness comes from small, human interactions — the kind that happen when kind people are present and open. A smile appears unexpectedly. Gestures are genuine. Someone pauses, not because they have to but because they want to.

These moments change the world little by little because inner peace expresses as world peace. They change the moment. As part of the Walk for Peace, scenes like this appear along the road — not loud or dramatic, just quietly heartwarming. People notice without trying. They react without thinking. And suddenly, the space is warmer.

(USA-Buddha's Teaching.) Day 104: resume after lunch for next destination

Aloka the Peace Dog is the big star walking

This movement isn’t about distance, destination, or purpose. It’s about feeling. It’s about how sweetness shows up when no one is trying to impress or persuade.

• What is the way to such "sweetness"? The Buddha taught four sublime meditations called the Four Supreme Abidings:

1. loving-kindness (metta)
2. compassion (compassion)
3. joy in the joy of others (mudita)
4. unbiased looking on (upekkha)

It happens when people are simply themselves. In a world that often feels rushed and heavy, moments like this land differently. They do not demand attention. They invite a smile. Sometimes that’s enough. This is a reminder that kindness doesn’t always look serious. Sometimes, it just looks sweet.

What was the last small moment that made you smile without expecting it? #PeaceWalk #AlokaDog #Texas #WashingtonDC #SweetMoments #EverydayJoy #LittleThingsMatter #FeelGoodVideo #WarmMoments #LifeAsItIs

• Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Sayalay Aloka (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Peace Walk in freezing cold: Global warming?

Thousands wait hours to see Buddhist monks' Peace Walk thru Petersburg: 'You can see the love'

(Walk for Peace) Ajahn never sleeps lying down in as a dhutanga practice

(HopeTrails) Stray dog was never adopted but on 106-day Walk for Peace

Freezing snowstorms could be climate chaos.

Is "global warming" real? Who dares to say that it is not? The mainstream media shoves that message down our throat whether we like it or not. University researchers are enticed to find those results and punished when they find anything else. And no one seems to be counting the artificial manipulation of the weather with chemtrails, H.A.A.R.P., and other secret means. Humans are warming it, but it is a concerted effort to warm it and say in an alarmist way that that warming is galloping out of control now. We ignore our eyes. We ourselves do not review the data. When the meteorologist who founded the Weather Channel (weather.com) looked at the data, he did NOT find much of a rise. And he asked his colleagues about. There has been about a 1 degree rise in our lifetimes. Where are all the other headlines coming from and why? They will make us believe and demand that they intervene. We will not only give up our rights, we will demand they be taken away. There may be a mini ice age on the way, but we'll never hear about that above the din of alarmism and artificial youth movements kickstarted to promote an agenda. Natural global warming being brought on by consumer activity? Unlikely. Being brought on by corporate officials and their masters? Obviously.

(AmeriScope) Love travels quietly across the country and into Virginia

(WNEP) Update: Record cold in Florida, nearly 20 inches of snow in North Carolina

Stray dog karma

(Kindness Nest) Aloka – The Peace Dog: Stray Who Walked for Peace and Changed Hearts

Dalai Lama in Wisconsin: Kalachakra

14th Dalai Lama praying in pavilion, closing Kalachakra mandala (Verizon Center, D.C.)

The 14th Dalai Lama comes to Wisconsin to perform the ancient Kalachakra ritual.

The Dalai Lama's Gift

Tantric Dakini deity

(Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive) A hidden ritual. A sacred promise. A transmission into a buddha's transcendent compassionate wisdom. A corn field transformed.

In 1980, HH the Dalai Lama received a humble request from a revered Tibetan monk in America: Perform the Kalachakra initiation—a powerful tantric ritual never before held outside of India or Tibet—in the heart of rural Wisconsin.

 

What followed was nothing short of miraculous. In just a few months, the lama's devoted students overcame local resistance, built a temple from the ground up, and transformed a Midwestern cornfield into a site of ancient wisdom and spiritual awakening, attracting over 1,000 spiritual seekers from around the world.

Captured on film then locked away in Smithsonian vaults for over 40 years, this long-lost footage resurfaces to reveal a story of transformation to buddhahood, and a moment when time, space, and a sacred initiation converged in the unlikeliest of places.

This story of the 1981 Kalachakra is told through the voices of distinguished scholars and the initiates who participated in the 1981 Kalachakra and through personal interviews of the Dalai Lama, filmed in 1981, throughout the preparation and the event.

The Dalai Lama’s Gift is a cinematic meditation on faith, legacy, and the power of one sacred encounter to ripple across generations.

For more information, please explore DalaiLamaGift.org. We invite all to support this project at spiritualpaths.net/donate.

2O24 | US | English | 76 minutes. DIRECTOR/PRODUCER Ed Bastian. Co-PRODUCER  Sharpa Tulku, Catherine Wyler, Jennifer Beman. EDITOR/WRITER Jennifer Beman. MUSIC: Nawang Khechog, Three Dog Night, Daniel Moore. ART AND ANIMATION: Pema Namdol Thaye.

ABOUT: Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive. Bringing the teachings of Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche and the "Kalachakra - Wheel of Time" transmission. Visit at LamaYeshe.com.

• Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive, Nov. 29, 2025; CC Liu, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Christ vs. The Buddha: similarities

Sid (the Buddha), Kris (Krishna), Mo, Josh (Jesus), Aquaman, Lao Tzu, Joe (Joseph Smith)

JESUS vs. the BUDDHA: Love vs. Non-Attachment

The Buddha and the Christ: friends

(Buddha's Wisdom) 🔍JESUS vs. BUDDHA: LOVE vs. DETACHMENT: TWO PATHS, ONE TRUTH. What happens when Jesus’s fearless [yogic] love [called agape in Greek] meets the Buddha’s wisdom of [boundless love called metta and] letting go*?

• *“Attachment says, ‘Be mine,’ whereas love says, ‘Be well.’”

This video explores how two of history’s greatest spiritual teachers [the Buddha preceding Christ by at least 500 years], born five centuries and continents apart, answered the same human question: *How do we love without suffering*?

• *Suffering: dukkha, disappointment, pain, unsatisfactoriness, misery, ill, woe, not getting what we want and getting what we don't want.

From Galilee to the Ganges, discover how their paths converge in a timeless lesson for the modern heart.

📿 DISCOVER:

• The radical love of Jesus that defied tribal and political boundaries
• The Buddha’s teaching on non-attachment and the end of desperate grasping and clinging
• The hidden parallels between early Christian and Buddhist thought
• The mystery of whether the Christ and the Buddha’s teachings ever crossed paths [in ancient India, Tibet, and Central Asia]
• How to practice “love with open hands” in relationships today

🙏 Subscribe for more East-meets-West wisdom: Every week, we explore the meeting point of philosophy, history, and spirituality, from Buddhist cosmology to hidden wisdom in Western thought.

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• 00:00 The grip in our chest
• 01:14 The love paradox
• 02:44 The dangerous love of Jesus
• 07:24 The freedom love of Siddhartha the Buddha
• 11:19 When two truths collide
• 15:35 Love without the leash
• 21:21 The third path
• 24:50 Love fearlessly, LET GO freely

📚 SOURCES AND FURTHER READING:

• The Metta Sutta (Sutta Nipata 1.8) – Teachings on Loving-Kindness
• Sallatha Sutta (SN 36.6) – The Parable of the Second Arrow
• The Gospel of Luke 10.25-37 – The Parable of the Good Samaritan
• The Gospel of Matthew 5.44 – “Love thy enemies”
• Comparative studies on Greco-Buddhist exchanges along the Silk Road
• Historical scholarship on early Christian monasticism and Buddhist influence

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• * Love fearlessly. Love freely. Stay curious. Stay wise.

#Jesus, #Buddha, #Love, #Detachment, #NonAttachment, #Spirituality, #Mindfulness, #Buddhism, #Christianity, #Philosophy, #EastMeetsWest, #Wisdom, #Enlightenment

• Buddha's Wisdom, Nov. 8, 2025; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Dharma Realms: Buddhist Art Across Asia

ACCOMPANYING BOOK: Realms of the Dharma: Buddhist Art Across Asia

Realms of the Dharma (LACMA book)

There's a hardcover book, released July 1, 2025, by Editors Tushara Bindu Gude and Stephen Little and a foreword by Michael Govan. It has 5 out of 5 stars with one (1) rating.

It is a remarkable selection of pan-Asian Buddhist art, showcasing the history and diversity of Buddhist schools with examples across sculptures, textiles, reliquaries, manuscripts, and more.

• Realms of the Dharma: Buddhist Art Across Asia (2025 LACMA exhibit)

Buddhist Tibet (LACMA)

Published with LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), this gloriously illustrated celebration of Buddhist art addresses the development of Buddhism and its visual language over a period of nearly 2,000 years, as the Teaching (Dharma) traveled across Asia and was embraced by diverse cultures.

Realms of the Dharma brings together more than 200 works of Buddhist art from India, mainland and island Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, Central Asia, and East Asia.

Buddhist Japan (LACMA)

The book is divided into seven chapters, beginning with an introduction to Buddhism and Buddhist art, followed by chapters on South Asia, Southeast Asia, Nepal and Tibet, China, Korea, and Japan.

The artworks, all from the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), offer a broad perspective on the birth of Buddhism in South Asia and its spread throughout the Asian continent over centuries.

The Buddha's tooth relic (srarira) in China

The artworks include a stunning and diverse range of Buddhas, stupas and reliquaries, religious manuscripts, paintings, and sculptures depicting various Buddhist deities, portraits of Buddhist masters, and other ritual objects.

The remarkably successful expansion of Buddhism was in part due to the ability of its principles to be adapted to and assimilated within a range of preexisting belief systems [usually some form of shamanism, animism, or some form of spirit appeasement].

Gorgeously illustrated with over 250 color reproductions of these exemplary artworks and religious objects, this book celebrates that achievement. More

Mexican Independence Day: El Grito

(eastla-parade.com)

Hispanic Heritage Month begins today (Sept. 15th). How is it celebrated? As with most Mexican things, delicious food is involved. Unable to stop the British Empire's intrusion west, Mexico fought a war to expel Spain (France and other European occupiers) during the Mexican War of Independence. It was ultimately successful not on Cinco de Mayo (which was just a successful battle against French forces expelling them from Puebla, near the largest pyramid in the world in Cholula). 

• What's Mexico's "4th of July"? El Grito de Independencia ("The Shout of Independence" or "Cry of Dolores")

East LA hosts Mexican Independence Day Parade

(ABC7) Sept. 14, 2025: The 79th annual East LA Mexican Independence Day Parade and Festival was held under the theme of "Tradition, Education and Achievement." More: abc7.com/17774373

It's National Hispanic Heritage Month

In Spanish es el Mes nacional de la herencia hispana, which is observed annually from September 15 to October 15 in the United States for recognizing the contributions and influence of Hispanic culture to this nation's achievements, culture, and history. More

• Hispanic and Latino Americans

• Vegan Mexican at Home (by Dora)

Fiestas Patrias | ELA Parade Fest

Grand Marshal Jose Hernandez

Food, live music, dance performances, and more are on tap for the 79th annual East L.A. Mexican Independence Day Parade and Festival. Astronaut and current University of California Regent José M. Hernández is the parade’s grand marshal.

In a year that has been challenging for the Mexican American (Chicano) community in L.A., it’s a great opportunity to get out and celebrate all that makes East Los Angeles and LA's largest immigrant community (some say its new majority) so vibrant, unique, and joyous.

• Best things to do this weekend in Los Angeles and Southern California: Sept. 12-14 (LAist.com)

What is there to eat this month? Decolonize Your Diet

More than just a cookbook, Decolonize Your Diet redefines what is meant by "traditional" Mexican food by reaching back through hundreds of years of history to reclaim heritage crops as a source of protection from modern diseases of development.

Authors Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel are life partners. When Calvo was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, they both radically changed their diets and began seeking out recipes featuring healthy, vegetarian (then vegan) Mexican foods.

Yeah, but will it taste good with spice and guac?

They promote an eating lifestyle that is rich in plants indigenous to the Americas (amaranth, squash, corn, beans, greens, herbs, and seeds) and are passionate about the idea that Latinos in America, specifically Mexicans, need to ditch the fast food and return to their own culture's food roots for both physical health and spiritual fulfillment.

This veggie cookbook features over 100 colorful recipes based on Mesoamerican cuisine and also includes contributions from indigenous cultures throughout the Americas, such as kabocha squash in green pipian, aguachile de quinoa, mesquite corn tortillas, tepary bean salad, and amaranth chocolate cake.

Steeped in history but very much rooted in the contemporary world, Decolonize Your Diet introduces readers to the energizing and healing properties of a plant-based Mexican American diet. It is full-color throughout. Decolonize Your Diet: Plant-Based Mexican-American Recipes for Health and Healing

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Start a community garden or urban yard-farm

Professors Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel teach at California State East Bay and San Francisco State University, respectively. They grow fruits, vegetables, and herbs on their small urban farm. This is their first book. Esquibel received her Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness Program at UC Santa Cruz (1999) and is now an associate professor in Race and Resistance Studies at San Francisco State University and author of With her Machete in her Hand (U of Texas Press, 2006). She has also published poetry, drama, and literary criticism. Her father's family has lived in northern New Mexico for more than 12 generations. On her mother's side, her great-great-grandmother, great-grandmother, and grandmother all migrated from Sonora to Los Angeles between 1913 and 1919. Each of these women made a living cooking for Mexican migrant workers and Chicanos y Chicanas in Los Angeles. More

More: Mexican "El Grito" celebrations all around the USA

• EastLA-parade.com via LAist.com; Crystal Quintero, CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Literal underworld crime, Los Angeles

Underground crime ring: Stolen cars in secret tunnels in LA County | FOX 11 LA

(FOX 11 Los Angeles) Whittier Narrows, Los Angeles County, near Montebello - Sept. 4, 2025: FOX 11's Matthew Seedorff received a tip suggesting that criminals are storing stolen cars inside remote runnels in Los Angeles County. Where do stolen cars disappear to with LoJack and all of the new built-in GPS tracking devices? So this is where stolen cars go before they hit the "chop shops" and are sold for parts or shipped out of the country at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro to be sold on the world market by crime syndicates. Meanwhile, the LAPD and LASD and CHP all have their fingers up their nose not knowing anything and being too afraid to enter the tunnels to chase after the car thieves and criminals.

FOX 11 News on YouTube: @foxla Watch more FOX 11 on YouTube: Police Chases • Brazen Crime • Homeless Crisis: Underground crime ring: Stolen cars in secret tunnels in LA County | FOX 11 LA

• Matt Seedorff (FOX 11); Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Jimmy Kimmel returns to hound Trump

Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s crazy summer, rumors that he died, and Colbert’s cancellation

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Sept. 2, 2025: Kimmel returns from summer vacation to talk about his travels, all the crazy things Trump did while he was gone, the social media posts claiming Trump DIED, Rudy Giuliani getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom, everything that happened with Stephen Colbert and CBS, rumors that Jimmy is moving to Italy after getting his citizenship, a PSA from summer guest hosts, and packing bags and heading back to Brooklyn from Sept. 29-Oct. 3! Want to come see the show being taped on the Eastcoast? Get free tickets here: kimmelinbrooklyn.com. #Kimmel

Trump stops ALL wars, MAGA mouth-breathers mad, Cracker Barrel, Ted Cruz

Science finds new birthplace of marijuana

(Shi Heng Yi) The last video about cannabis and spirituality we need (a motivational speech)

Might medicinal have saved her?

The human species has had a close relationship with cannabis (marijuana, flower, weed, pot, ganja) for thousands of years. In fact, it is among the earliest plants humans cultivated.

Yet, it has also had a turbulent and controversial history due to the psychoactive properties of some varieties. Other varieties, such as hemp, are low in THC, yet proved to be the perfect crop for textiles and industrial applications.

• Clearing the air, fact check: Did the Buddha use cannabis?

Largest hemp field in Europe (wiki)

So many varieties arose over time that the line was blurred between wild and cultivated strains.

However, a research team recently uncovered new insights into how Cannabis sativa first arose and how it eventually split into the different varieties known today. These novel insights into the ancient origins of cannabis have provided a new perspective on the evolution of this incredibly versatile plant.

Cannabis Cowboys of the Old West

The Untold Story of Cannabis Cowboys | Smoking Cannabis The Wild West Way

The Untold Story of Cannabis Cowboys | Smoking Cannabis the Wild West Way

The Natives said it's moxibustion medicine.

• (Legacy Capsule) May 1, 2025: UNITED STATES. Explore the rugged landscapes of the Wild West, a time when cowboys roamed freely, outlaws held sway, and an unexpected secret flourished: cannabis (aka marijuana). From Mexican laborers to defiant frontiersmen, this plant transcended its medicinal use to become a vital aspect of life. But how did it influence the Old West, and why has it been overlooked [by American historians]? Let's delve into the concealed history of cannabis cowboys and the role of marijuana in the Wild West.

  

  Let's finish here then go get high as a mother...

• In the 16th century, cannabis made its way to the Western hemisphere, introduced by Spaniards, who brought it to Chile, South America, primarily for [hemp] fiber production. In North America, the Spanish also cultivated cannabis, focusing on hemp across various farms [hempsteads]. During the early [British] colonial era, hemp emerged as a vital crop for farmers. Alongside tobacco, it became a significant export long before the American Revolution began. This journey started in 1611 when the first settlers of Jamestown, Virginia, transported several [cannabis] plants across the Atlantic. By 1619, King James I urged the American colonists in Jamestown to enhance their cultivation efforts to benefit England. The Virginia Company, which managed Jamestown, instructed landowners to grow and send 100 hemp plants to meet England's demands. Over time, colonists expanded their hemp farming to strengthen England's foothold in the Americas.

How researchers figured out the ancient origins of cannabis

Drug abuse gives drug use a bad name -- making addicts out of users in search of dopamine.

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Wait, this "weed" was a long-trusted medicine?

For the study, the researchers analyzed 110 different cannabis genomes from around the world. Using state-of-the-art DNA sequencing technology, they were able to gain a better understanding of how Cannabis sativa diversified over time.

Through an analysis of the DNA sequences, the researchers were able to develop phylogenetic family trees that define the connections among various cannabis lineages. These maps reveal that there was a gradual evolution into four cannabis groups that are genetically distinct from one another.

The most interesting aspect of this study was the identification of "basal cannabis," a foundational group that had up to that point eluded detection among research groups.

'Shatter' cannabis dangers

(ITV News) Dab, shatter, butane honey oil (THC) invades suburban UK

'Shatter' cannabis poses a triple-threat as a deadly new breed of weed

• Hash oil dabbing: Highly potent, dangerous to deal, and extremely explosive (because of the butane in its production), Gregg Easteal explains how "shatter" poses a triple-threat as a deadly new breed of weed and a haunting form of merry-Juana.

Basal cannabis is regarded as a sister group to other varieties and is genetically distinct from psychoactive and hemp cannabis types. The basal cannabis group includes traditionally-bred local landrace varieties still currently found in parts of China, in addition to feral strains.

• 

  Dr. James Adams, USC, Chumash medicine man

  As reported earlier by Wisdom Quarterly (Medicinal Plants Workshop with Dr. Adams), USC's Dr. James Adams' realized that the old slang name for cannabis, Spanish Marijuana or "Mary Jane" (Maria Juana), is not of Mexican origin as assumed by many and promoted by police and governmental agencies like the FBI (think government propaganda film Reefer Madness); the original name is Chinese in origin, ma huang.

• 

  (Cecilia Garcia and Dr. Adams)

  We've all been lied to about "marijuana." We've been told it's a Spanish word used by Mexicans in North America (Mexico itself being in North America or Mesoamerica, not Central or South America) that means "Mary Jane." That's a lie, a purposeful piece of propaganda by the US government. Dr. Adams is a fluent daily speaker of Chinese who has been married to a Chinese woman for 42 years. He is able to demonstrate that "marijuana" is a Chinese term for cannabis: Má is "hemp," there's a middle part for "leaf" (ri or li), and hua or huáng means "flower." The Chinese were using cannabis for 12,000 years (as had neighboring India) or had historical records extending back that far for its medicinal and industrial use. Similarly, jasmine flower in Chinese is mo li hua. [Further proof: The medicinal plant stimulant, vital for nasal conditions, ephedra has a Chinese name (máhuáng), which literally translates as "hemp yellow." Case closed.]

Plant nootropics are better than synthetic pharma

Map of East Asia next to Central Asia

The researchers believe that basal cannabis resembles wild varieties that grew before human agricultural intervention more than any other variety.

In fact, the two share genetic markers that are not observed in contemporary cultivated strains. Based on their findings, the researchers suggest that East Asia was the place where cannabis was first cultivated.

This new finding overturns previously held assumptions that the plant was first cultivated in Central Asia [where the Buddha was born in ancient Gandhara/Afghanistan].

Cannabis sativa versus Cannabis indica: the greatest lie ever told?

I could have lived? Nature has cures?

They further determined that the split between basal cannabis and cultivated varieties likely happened almost 12,000 years ago.

To put that time frame into perspective, this period coincides with the beginning of agricultural practice itself, during the dawn of the Neolithic period.

Furthermore, it was around 4,000 years ago that hemp and psychoactive varieties split from a common branch on the tree.

• More: Scientists have discovered the ancient birthplace of marijuana (MSN)
• Bruce Abrahamse, Hearty Soul via MSN.com, April 22, 2025; ITV News, May 14, 2025; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly