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- Title
The Meaning of the Berenike Buddha.
- Authors
LEUPP, GARY
- Abstract
Buddhist Indian Sailors on Socotra (Yemen) and the Role ofTrade Contacts in the Spread of Buddhism", in Brigit Kellner, ed.,Buddhism and the Dynamics of Transculturality, 2019.) With the discovery of the Berenike Buddha, we found the "object"whose absence Strauch noted. Origen, Clement'ssuccessor, was aware of Buddhist monasticism (at a time when therewas no Christian monasticism) and the Buddhist practice of buryingthe bones of special people under "pyramids" by which he meansstupas (at a time when there was no cult of relics in Christianity). The item was excavated last March but has only been receiving wideattention in the last month: the two-foot-tall image of SiddharthaGautama, the historical Buddha, carved from Anatolian marble, in theGreco-Indian Gandhara style, with details suggesting production in aworkshop in the ancient metropolis of Alexandria, Egypt. When we excavatethe history of religions, we find all sorts of unexpected associationsreflecting such borrowing: we find Judaism as well as MahayanaBuddhism impacted by Persian Zoroastrianism, Buddhism impactedby Daoism, Christianity impacted by Buddhism, etc.
- Subjects
BUDDHISTS; BUDDHISM; RELIGIONS; RELIGIOUS groups; SOCIAL conflict; CULTS; PRIESTS; BIBLICAL literalism; PEASANTS
- Publication
CounterPunch, 2023, p306
- ISSN
1086-2323
- Publication type
Article