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Being a regular follower of @BeerBicepsGuy show, came across a podcast with Prof Mohsin Khan.
Though he seemed honest, abundant points made by him were wrong,given recent researches.
The moment he said Buddha was from Scythian lineage, it became a red flag for me.
Being a regular follower of @BeerBicepsGuy show, came across a podcast with Prof Mohsin Khan.
Though he seemed honest, abundant points made by him were wrong,given recent researches.
The moment he said Buddha was from Scythian lineage, it became a red flag for me.
Prof said so from this point that Gautam Buddha is called “Sakya Muni.”
Prof Khan’s confusion lies because his readings (as it seemed from podcast) is only relies largely on linguistics & hypotheses propagated by the likes of Michael Witzel & Beckwith.
Prof Khan’s confusion lies because his readings (as it seemed from podcast) is only relies largely on linguistics & hypotheses propagated by the likes of Michael Witzel & Beckwith.
Michael Witzel & Christopher Beckwith without any evidence based his hypothesis of indicating Shakyas = Central Asian Iranic nomads Scythians (as called by the Greeks), because they are addressed as Sakās by the Achaemenid Persians.
Here are snippets from Beckwith’s book.
Here are snippets from Beckwith’s book.
The snippets are from the Book, “Greek Buddha.”
Interestingly most of ideas that Prof Khan was giving, @BeerBicepsGuy were from this very book including about Zoroastrians. Read this part
Interestingly most of ideas that Prof Khan was giving, @BeerBicepsGuy were from this very book including about Zoroastrians. Read this part
What is interesting @BeerBicepsGuy that Beckwith whole thesis about Gautam Buddha’s foreign lineage is coming from the premise that Shakyas = Central Asian Iranic nomads Scythians. That’s why he builds on this notion that Gautam Buddha is sage of Scythians.
Beckwith in his book has gone on to explain that the people of the Buddha were Scythian soldiers of Darius-I who arrived during latter’s conquest of the Indus Valley. Interestingly he sees Scytho-Saka nomadism as the origin of the wandering asceticism of the Buddha.
It is indeed a quite layman type, non-scholarly assumption & it gives rise to an idea that Beckwith wasn’t aware of Indian traditions at all.
Levman does cites his exchange with M Witzel & outrightly criticises this notion of Buddha belonging to a foreign clan.
Levman does cites his exchange with M Witzel & outrightly criticises this notion of Buddha belonging to a foreign clan.
The founder of Sakya Dynasty is said to be coming from lineage of Ikṣvāku (Pāli: Okkāka) /snippet from paper of Levman/ who is also also ancestor of Shri Ram.
In one of the Buddhist tale Buddha is same to be stating he was Shri Ram in some past birth.
In one of the Buddhist tale Buddha is same to be stating he was Shri Ram in some past birth.
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