http://thaimangoes.blogspot.rs/2009/08/h9.html
Really interesting article, about the origins of the Buddha, Buddha belonged to the warrior tribe called Shakya. It somehow sounds similliar to Saka, which was the Persian name for the Scythians.
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http://thaimangoes.blogspot.rs/2009/08/h9.html
Really interesting article, about the origins of the Buddha, Buddha belonged to the warrior tribe called Shakya. It somehow sounds similliar to Saka, which was the Persian name for the Scythians.
Saka is also Sanskrit for Scythian.
Buddhist legend talks about how the Buddha was non-Aryan etc though they literally used the term "he was not Aryan..."
He may have been of Scythian origin, but Nepal was never part of Scythia. Even funnier, is that Scythians were the most Aryan people outside of Persia.
Shakya were Scythian but not Brahmins. They were taken as Kshetriyas which is warrior caste. There were numerous Scythian groups coming into India since antiquity. Scythian Medes, East Iranics Scythian, Tocharians related groups, Karasuk, Sai people from Tian shan, Saka from Bactria, Kushan, White Huns etc...
didn't notice before that my table in my second house has a symbol of Buddhism
https://a.uguu.se/IpFP1YdICzUu.jpg
No, his tribe is called Sakya not Saka, Sakya was an Vedic tribe and Buddha himself claimed origin from (a brahmin) Gautama Sage and Angirasa.
There were no Scythians in South Asia at that time.
Some Indologists have even claimed that my brahmin clan is Central Asian Iranian jist became there's a similarity in Name.
Prior to MLBA migrations, the society is not strict vedic. So people who came with original Saraswats, Saraiyuparis might have been Kshatriyas some times some probably became Bhumihars. The 2123 2125 clades of R1a might have come long before the Steppe MLBA migration which probably created the Vedic village like culture whereas these earlier ones might have been assimilated in the Harappan Society as you can see some small towns have Agni hundam for Vedic like Fire worship
In many statues, Buddha looks mongoloid influenced imo. No idea to which degree these can be reliably though.
The famous depiction of Buddha with curly hair and a bun at the top of the head was inspired on the marble sculpture "Apollo Belvedere" at the time of Greco-Buddhist interaction.
Idol worship was not widespread/banned/looked down during early Vedic Age as we worshipped Gods by doing Yajna at least twice a day.
So maybe that's why Buddha and Buddhist did not make his image and used dharma chakra as concentration for their worship until greeks came and introduced idol worship?