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Eastern Shoshone tribal partner Willie LeClair, 72, took his hound to the Vatican for a variety store that included Italian Catholic priests and Tibetan Buddhist monks (BUFFALOPOST.NET).
In remedy to Teem down Relocation (Way of thinking QUARTERLY Strut) Hendon Harris (essayist of the post "WERE THE ANASAZI People BUDDHISTS?") writes in: QUESTION: How can self disown the pre-Columbian link in the company of Vedic Buddhism and the culture and sanctimonious beliefs and practices of the ancient PUEBLOAN PEOPL the FOUR CORNERS as well as tribal line all corner to corner North America? Google: "MANDALAS MANTRAS MANJIS AND MONUMENTS. You institute your space, but creative allow us to wrangle.
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Confined dancers at Ohkay Owingeh, NM (WIKI)
ANSWER: First of all, HENDON, what is "Vedic Buddhism"? The BUDDHA\'S Lessons OR DHARMA is post"-Vedic. In gone lives the Bodhisattva (Buddha-to-be) had been reborn a Brahmin, an skilled memorizing and reciting the VEDAS (the ancient Indus Lob Background and Indian "Sense Books" in print by the ancient seers and sages). Brahmanism became Hinduism (the VEDIC DHARMA or Teachings of the Vedas), and Hinduism co-opted Buddhism taxing to restraint it in saying "Lady" Buddha were with the sole purpose original AVATAR, an chronological "incarnation" of Hinduism's Lady VISHNU like Lady Rama and Lady Krishna, subsuming the Contemporary One with the trinity of Hindu gods Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.
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The Buddha (happySUN/flickr.com)
Buddhism is not a maintenance of the Vedas and does not hound from it. The Vedas are nimble and very advanced spiritual knowledge, but they are fraught with assumptions the wandering frugal Siddhartha overcame by his clear explanation (maha bodhi"), his realization of the hit the highest point truth. Being he realized it, he did not state the Vedas. He proclaimed something very another -- with innumerable shallow similarities but a another create and innumerable new insights not recorded in folks very ancient and updated texts. For one, the central region of these texts is that of a "thing" ("atman") broken up in a freedom which is an sleight of hand ("maya") in the individual of Brahma taxing to get back to Brahman (the reality astern the sleight of hand). The Buddha realized that that thing is impersonal, not-self ("anatman"), and was thereby excellent to transcend all this. How innumerable Vedic scholars can see, infringe, or be aware of the Buddha's record insight? It is this earnest understanding that distinguishes Buddhism's power to lead to authentic-enlightenment and actual final-liberation. But we're quibbling; donate are, as we alleged, innumerable shallow similarities (luck," dhyana, dukkha, samsara, dharma", "yatra", "ashtanga, piti, "and so on), but the Buddha clarified what these really were from his succession knowledge not his study of the Vedas.
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Up for grabs palace to become a shramana"
So was the "SHRAMANA" MOVEMENT? (Sanskrit, Pali "samaa", English dig of SHAMAN) was a NON-VEDIC INDIAN Clerical Improve of wandering-ascetics reasonably than temple-priests peer to but Leave town FROM the Forgotten VEDIC Holiness. The "shramaa" tradition gave boost to Buddhism (Alexander P. Svarghese, "India: Chronicles, Holiness, Glimpse and Approve of to the Earth", 2008, pp. 259-60), YOGA (Gfrey Samuel, "THE Origin OF YOGA AND TANTRA", Cambridge Moot Herd, 2008), Jainism, and some like "NaSTIKA" schools of Hinduism such as CaRVaKA and AJiVIKA, and in addition to dressed in concepts in all groom INDIAN RELIGIONS such as "SASaRA" (the on all sides of of rebirth and death) and "MOKSHA" (liberation from that on all sides of).
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Confined American pueblo" or community in Taos, New Mexico (WIKI)
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Buddha hideaway (laka-mankong/flickr)
The Buddha rejected the authority of the Vedas and the Brahmins (brahmanas"), the temple-priest-caste scholars industrious in empty rituals. The Buddha was a guide in the course of the wandering ascetics ("shramanas").
So "explanation" ("bodhi") and liberation ("moksha") are in Hinduism -- at the time of the Buddha as today -- is not the especially as what the Buddha found. Buddhism defines explanation as warmly penetrating the Four Talented Truths, which leads to glimpsing nirvana. And nirvana (even while the especially word came to be hand-me-down by another traditions all extra India) is not rebirth with Brahma, melting in the sphere of Brahman, or a split self inclusion with a clear shared self. These are all nimble ideas, inordinate "spiritual" experiences but not what the Buddha skilled was the hit the highest point liberation from ALL unrest. And even while Mahayana Buddhism was greatly positive by these Hindu ideas, the Vedas, tantra, and other Brahminical experience, the Vedas necessity not be astonished with the Buddha Dharma. Doubtless, Hendon, you were referring to the VEDIC SANSKRIT of primitive Mahayana Buddhist texts in GANDHARA/AFGHANISTAN, Greece, and Ceramic (BUDDHIST HYBRID SANSKRIT)?
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Laguna Pueblo Indians (WIKI)
Now who were the Confined AMERICANS, folks nations vanished by voracious bands of European invaders and settlers in what is now America? Recurrent before to Columbus this realm, now the USA, was Whole of line. They were displaced and killed (in what could in simple terms be described as a genocide, but we can't depict it that way because European Americans world power get upset the way Turks can't stand that Armenians use the word).
It is advantageous, Hendon, advantageous that you grip seen the drain links in the company of ancient Buddhists and Confined Americans in key components of spirituality -- "mandalas, mantras, manjis," and more! ANASAZI/HOPI traditions are so shut to Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism and taken as a whole "shramanic"/shamanic gesticulation themes that it cannot be a chance.
MANDALAS, MANTRAS, MANJIS, Prescription MEN (SHIELDS-CIRCLES), MONUMENTS (Impressed IN Gem), BUFFALO HORNS, AND YAMANTAKACHINESE Convey AMERICA
Hendon Harris (CHINESEDISCOVERAMERICA.COM)
In [a] fresh reading on ancient sanctimonious symbols and deities in Buddhism, I grip been fixed by the NORTH AMERICAN BISON HORN Form on the top of Yamantaka's (Vajrabhairava) ruler. Horn configurations on the heads of another plants grip a snappish degree that tie folks horns back to a specific household. This is why I grip been fixed as to why THE HORNS ON THE Primarily OF TIBETAN BUDDHISM'S Beloved Statue VAJRABHAIRAVA (YAMANTAKA) are the horn set of an animal native to our continent -- the North American Bison. On top
