shivalinga
August 29, 2003, 03:56 PM
tocharian mummies: from Shambala ?
shambala was spoken of by tibetan monks long after
buddhism had come and gone in india,tibet because of its inaccessability was the last
buddhist kingdom to become so.
The legend goes that you must travel due north from lhasa, crossing the mountains,then crossing a desert, shambala was a city in a valley surrounded by mountains.
if you go north from lhasa you will hit a desert,
in the tarim basin.
until 4000 years ago the tarim basin was a fertile
paradise,lakes,rivers,animals, and because of
its location as the center of trade bewteen china and the east and india and points west,
the aryan,or vedic civilization there grew
very wealthy and they built great cities and empires.
the tarim basin was a fertile paradise valley,
surrounded by enourmous mountains.
4000 years ago the climate started to change,
it became drier and drier, when the aryan vedic
civilization underwent it's massive conversion
to buddhism,so did the kingdoms of the tarim,
this was around 300 b.c. and onward.
by the time buddhism reached tibet almost
1000 years later, the climate had created a large desert in the tarim surrounded by cities
with oasis cities also, but by then many of the great kingdoms had been abandoned and lost to the desert.
so the legend of shambala was about the great
kingdoms that had occupied the tarim basin,
drawing traders from europe to settle there
as well as from china and greater india,
the tocharian mummies found there from 4000
years ago that were european with blond and red
hair supports that, the other inhabitants due to
being vedic or buddhist cremated their dead,
so the caucasion mummies alone survived.
here are some links, about loulan and other
extinct kingdoms including the famous
dunhuang.
http://english.cri.com.cn/english/2002/Oct/73931.htm
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/weekly/aa010198.htm
here are stories about the search for shambala,also
called shangri-la
http://www.shambhala.mn/Files/csoma.html
this is some stuff at a yahoo group,
details about vedic peoples in the region
and alot of other great stuff.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aballonas/message/41
shambala was spoken of by tibetan monks long after
buddhism had come and gone in india,tibet because of its inaccessability was the last
buddhist kingdom to become so.
The legend goes that you must travel due north from lhasa, crossing the mountains,then crossing a desert, shambala was a city in a valley surrounded by mountains.
if you go north from lhasa you will hit a desert,
in the tarim basin.
until 4000 years ago the tarim basin was a fertile
paradise,lakes,rivers,animals, and because of
its location as the center of trade bewteen china and the east and india and points west,
the aryan,or vedic civilization there grew
very wealthy and they built great cities and empires.
the tarim basin was a fertile paradise valley,
surrounded by enourmous mountains.
4000 years ago the climate started to change,
it became drier and drier, when the aryan vedic
civilization underwent it's massive conversion
to buddhism,so did the kingdoms of the tarim,
this was around 300 b.c. and onward.
by the time buddhism reached tibet almost
1000 years later, the climate had created a large desert in the tarim surrounded by cities
with oasis cities also, but by then many of the great kingdoms had been abandoned and lost to the desert.
so the legend of shambala was about the great
kingdoms that had occupied the tarim basin,
drawing traders from europe to settle there
as well as from china and greater india,
the tocharian mummies found there from 4000
years ago that were european with blond and red
hair supports that, the other inhabitants due to
being vedic or buddhist cremated their dead,
so the caucasion mummies alone survived.
here are some links, about loulan and other
extinct kingdoms including the famous
dunhuang.
http://english.cri.com.cn/english/2002/Oct/73931.htm
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/weekly/aa010198.htm
here are stories about the search for shambala,also
called shangri-la
http://www.shambhala.mn/Files/csoma.html
this is some stuff at a yahoo group,
details about vedic peoples in the region
and alot of other great stuff.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aballonas/message/41