--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: <snip> > > Any idea why the Tibetans would have been into > > long journeys like that? Some flavors of monks > > do so in hope of finding new opportunities to > > proselytize, but I shouldn't think that would be > > the motivation of Tibetan monks, or would it?>>> > > The Tibetan Buddhists were intimately connected with Vedic culture > which in turn had a history of travelling far and wide and plying > the oceans. Our word, 'Navy', 'Nautical', is from Sanskrit 'nau' > which means 'ship', (and I suspect that is where the name of 'Noah' > in the Bible comes from...'Noah' mean't 'Mariner') > > Tibetan Buddhists explored and sent envoys far and wide to gain and > spread knowledge , but more importantly their anscestors may have > had a more unbroken global link which is connected to the ancient > stone circles found in northern Europe, India and elsewher. There is > a Buddhist text from that region which mentions an ancient Earth > Power center in England, known now as Glastonbury. It was considered > by the writers of the text to be an important Chakra of spiritual > power. This suggests flow of information and knowledge not > previously acknowledged by modern scholars. Ancient humans were > Master Travellers.
Thanks. Didn't know about the Buddhist-Glastonbury connection at all. And I knew Buddhists generally traveled to spread the dharma, but I've always thought of the Tibetans as being pretty isolated because of the geography. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
