The mysterious Buddha Gautama was a quarter reptilian ?
As is known from ancient sources, after the great saint, Buddha Gautama, "went into parainirvana" - the last death, breaking the cycle of death and rebirth, his body was cremated near the Hirannavati river in India. The then ruling king Ashoka decided to preserve the remains of the Buddha, which he divided into 84,000 fragments. Only now some of them have been found … This will help scientists study them and understand whether unearthly blood could really flow in the veins of the Buddha. Because a number of sources claim that Buddha was three-quarters a man, and a quarter - “a mighty wise serpent” … Isn't he a reptilian ?!
Archaeologists have discovered fragments of a skull that may belong to the legendary Buddha Siddhartha Gautama. The bones were hidden in a model stupa, a Buddhist temple for meditation. Scientists have also learned how the Buddha's remains came to China.
A team of researchers found a thousand-year-old model of a building in a stone crypt under a Buddhist temple in Nanjing, China. The mortar contained the remains of the saints, including the parietal bone. According to the inscriptions on the walls of the stupa, the bone belonged to the Buddha himself.
The building model itself is made of sandalwood, silver and gold and is adorned with precious stones, pieces of crystal, glass, agate and lapis lazuli. The model is 117 cm high and 45 cm wide. In addition to the stone chest, it was in an iron box.
The inscriptions engraved on the stone chest where the model rested say that it was made during the reign of the Song Dynasty Emperor Zhenzong (997-1022). The names of people who donated money and materials for its production, as well as the names of the designers, were also engraved on the stupa.
During the burial, the remains were treated with great respect and were buried on the territory of the modern Qixia temple. The inscriptions on the chest were made by a man named Deming about 1000 years ago. In addition to the information about the bone, they say that the author of the model is "the master of perfect enlightenment, the abbot of the Chen Shan monastery and the keeper of the purple mantle." Deming also described the story of the arrival of the Buddha's parietal bone in China.
China received only 19 (out of 84,000!) Fragments of the remains of the Buddha, including the parietal, as stated on the stupa. At first, the sacred bone fragment was kept in the monastery, which was destroyed during military conflicts and the ruins of the temple "were scattered around the neighborhood." Emperor Zhenzong agreed to rebuild the temple and place the remains of Buddha and other Buddhist saints in an underground crypt. They were interred on July 21, 1011 CE. er "in the most solemn and complex funeral ceremony," Deming wrote. The ancient chronicler thanks the emperor for the restoration of the temple and the burial of the remains of the Buddha, wishes him a long life, numerous grandchildren and faithful ministers.
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Archaeologists working in Nanjing excavated the crypt and conducted research in the area from 2007 to 2010. Nanjing Municipal Institute of Archeology and experts from other specialized institutions supported the work of the specialists, and the results were widely reported in China.
The parietal bone of the Buddha and other artifacts found in the temple have been exhibited in Hong Kong and Macau, where tens of thousands of Buddhist believers came to touch the sacred relic.
Scientists will try to extract DNA from the fragments and determine if they belong to Buddha, and if so, what features distinguished this great figure.
We can also watch a short video about the remains of a Buddhist monk walled up inside the statue:
