Located in Amphoe Na Dun, Phra That is in the area once was ancient town called Champasi. Lots of archeological artifacts, such as Buddha images and Buddha amulet, are found and now kept in Khon Kaen National Museum, Khon Kaen province. The most significant items found was the stupa housing relic of the Lord Buddha kept in gold, silver, and bronze boxes. All of such precious artifacts, probably from the 8th-10th Century in Dhavaravadi era, were found inside a mini-size stupa. Thus, the government decided to set up Phra That Na Dun on 365-acre area in 1982 to be Buddhist Centre of the region. With the height of 50 metres, Phra That or stupa which houses Lord Buddha’s relic has the shape of mini-stupa found. Around the stupa are museum exhibiting Champasi culture, antique, art pieces, and information of Champasi ancient town, park and herb garden.
How to get there From Maha Sarakham City, use highway 2040 via Amphoe Kae Dam and Wapi Pathum, turn right into highway 2045 to Amphoe Na Dun. Prathat is 65 kms from Maha Sarakham City
This is a breathtaking temple. If this temple had a "sister" temple built in the same style from approximately the same period but in a distance land would it be recognized for what it
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is a temple built in the Dvaravati style. Please
notice the orange border on the bottom, the huge
initial mound, the smaller secondary mound and the base of the spire that still remains on the top of the second mound. How about the remants of the white plaster covering that once covered the entire structure that still remains in patches on the top of the first large mound and
the secondary mound and spire base. There is evidence that indicates that a temple tank water
diversion system that was originally built there still functions to this very day. Could this be
true? Check it out for yourself.
Many people simply find it hard to believe that Buddhist monks were able to use the ancient technology
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examples of Buddhapada (Buddha's footprints) and Concentric Circles that serve as the foundation for
the Buddhist mandala.
Then how about what may be a Tibetan Buddhist geoglyph in Colorado. Google: "Ancient Buddha Tree
of Life Lotus Flower Colorado". The geoglyph on the left appears to be the Buddhist Three Jewel image
In the Tibetan motif. The geoglyph on the right appears to be a popular Tibetan deity over the ages--
Vajrabhairava. Google "Vajrabhairava" and "Three Jewels" for more information on these interesting
topics.
If you need more evidence that Buddhists from Southeast Asia made it to North America then explain to yourself by googling:
ReplyDelete"Seven Step Seven Vow Wedding Ceremony" how that ancient tradition also from India came to be the most widely used wedding ceremony by the indigenous people of North America who
we call "Indians". Also how did the Buddhist Manji (Whirlwind) come to be so widely used in N. America by these same people who called it the "Whirling" Logs in their very own native languages? It has been reported that the Dalai Lama himself believes in the connection. Where did the Hopi
and Navajo tribes pick up their love of turquoise and the language similarities with the people of Tibet? Inquiring minds should seek these answers.
The Manji symbol shows up in North America and is called by the
ReplyDeleteHopi tribe of Native Americans the same name as its literal translation from Sanskrit in India--"The Whirlwind" How would that be possible without a cultural connection?
The number 108 is important in all Vedic based religions including Buddhism. Then why is it that the ancient Anasazi culture in North America built their settlements within such a tight range of the 108th Meridian West. What was so special to
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Vedic based religion perhaps Buddhism?
More Vedic/Buddhist symbols are found in North America. Google: "Canadian Goose Bisti Badlands" "Sleeping Lizard Bisti Badlands" or simply "Bisti Badlands Images". Anyone familiar with ancient Buddhism will recognize the "mushroom" shaped rocks that appear all over this 45,000 acre site there. Those are "Chattra" which literally mean Mushroom in Sanskrit the ancient language of India which are The Parasol Symbol --One of the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism!! This is not random. For a view of what I believe is another giant chattra on the top of a stupa not too far from the Bisti Badlands google: "Aerial View Mexican Hat Rock Utah" These Vedic Buddhist symbols and many others are all over this area. Was this now departed culture Buddhist? I believe they were.
ReplyDeleteGoogle: "Were the Anasazi People Buddhist?"
ReplyDeleteWould you like to see scientific evidence that North America's
ReplyDeleteancient people apparently had contact with Asian Buddhism before Europeans arrived on the continent? Then google: "Dimensions of Dine (Navajo) and Buddhist traditions by Jeannie Martinez Wells" Professor at the University of New Mexico. When you get to the site click on "Quick View" to read her scholarly and well referenced article on this topic. How could these ancient belief systems have such similarities and yet be separated by the Pacific Ocean and not be directly connected? There are other authors who have written on this topic.
Are there patterns of ancient Buddhist rock carvings that can still be found on continents other than Asia? There is a distinct rock formation that is identified
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googling: "Isan Home of Ancient Dvaravati Ruins". This beautiful formation
is clearly identified as having Buddhist roots. Yet this identical shape is found
in North America on "the front porch" of a Hopi pueblo in an 1879 photo. Access
this image by googling: "Hopi Dancers Rock 1879". This same Hopi tribe uses
the Buddhist Manji in their culture and calls it the same thing in their language
as its known in Sanskrit--The Whirlwind. Another beautiful image of this same
shaped rock formation is found in the Bisti Badlands immediately north of Chaco
Canyon which was the principal city of the ancient Anasazi people who the present
day Hopi tribe have the most in common. This formation can be seen by googling:
"Bent Hoodoo by Ned". Do you see a reoccurring pattern with these three images
as well as numerous hoodoos that are found in the Pacific Southwest? What does
this reoccurring shape represent in ancient Vedic Buddhism?
The Greeks in Alexandria Egypt and the Chinese in Chang'an China although a quarter of a world away from each other were directly connected by the Oceanic Route of the Silk Road during the 1st Century AD. Lead by Ptolemy in Alexandria and Zhang Heng in Chang'an they were both simultaneously attempting to produce a grid map for the whole world. There is no direct or indirect evidence to prove that Ptolemy was aware of Zhang's work except for the stunning coincidences between these two men's occupations, hobbies and interests. Those were incredibly similar. Too similar to ignore! Compare their individual profiles on the internet and you will see what I mean. Ptolemy's grid mapping work was lost by the 2nd or 3rd century but Zhang Heng's work was advanced by Phei
ReplyDeleteHsiu of 3rd century China and remained a part of Chinese technology until at least 1433. For examples of huge grids that I believe may prove pre Columbian Asian contact in North America and can only be seen from high altitude google; "The Joseph Needham Chessboard Grids" and "The Joseph de Guignes Coastal Oregon Grids". Its my opinion that these grids may have been the prototype of the world gidding system that we know of today as latitude and longitude. The ancients were far more educated than we've been taught.
If you still have any doubts about pre Columbian Buddhist influence in North America all you need to do is google:"Hopi
ReplyDeleteand Tibetan Prophecy" or "The Hopi People and Buddhist Symbols" While there are those of us who are debating this issue over symbols and customs few if any have taken the time to read Hopi and Tibetan prophecy. These prophecies given centuries ago make it clear what the Tibetans and the Hopi think about this contact. Here's an example: Tibetan Prophecy-
"When the iron eagle flies and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered over the earth and the dharma will go to the land of the red man."
Hopi Prophecy: "When the iron bird flies, the red robed people of the East who have lost their land will appear and The Two
Brothers from across the great ocean will be REUNITED."
To be reunited at some point in the past you had to have been
together. According to Hopi prophecy then Vajrayana (Tibetan)
Buddhist was once a part of the Hopi people. How else does this make any sense?
If you still have any doubts about pre Columbian Buddhist influence in North America all you need to do is google:"Hopi
ReplyDeleteand Tibetan Prophecy" or "The Hopi People and Buddhist Symbols" While there are those of us who are debating this issue over symbols and customs few if any have taken the time to read Hopi and Tibetan prophecy. These prophecies given centuries ago make it clear what the Tibetans and the Hopi think about this contact. Here's an example: Tibetan Prophecy-
"When the iron eagle flies and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered over the earth and the dharma will go to the land of the red man."
Hopi Prophecy: "When the iron bird flies, the red robed people of the East who have lost their land will appear and The Two
Brothers from across the great ocean will be REUNITED."
To be reunited at some point in the past you had to have been
together. According to Hopi prophecy then Vajrayana (Tibetan)
Buddhist was once a part of the Hopi people. How else does this make any sense?
Diffusion or the transfer of cultural elements from one ancient culture to another is widely accepted around the world. There is however one glaring exception and that is The New World of North Central and South America. While western scholars can accept that this happened everywhere else they say it never could or never did in the Americas. As far as they were concerned this was an absolute fact. No alternate theories that included migration or diffusion here would even be considered. One of the so called "facts" that this theory presumed was that Europe was the first continent to successfully sail the high seas to other continents. Therefore it was impossible for any other cultures to have had prior regular oceanic contact with North America. That so called "fact" ignores readily available information that Asian ships were sailing and transporting cargoes to Africa and Egypt via the Silk Road oceanic route as early as 300 BCE. Asians clearly had the ships and the navigational skills to have traveled to North America. Read "The Genius of China" by Robert Temple. If they didn't sail to the Americas it would have been because they weren't interested and not because they lacked the skills or the equipment to make the trip. The West has to ignore that Asians were capable of early open sea travel because the acknowledgemnet of that would interfere with the so called European "Age of Discovery" doctrine. If Asians were able to travel the open seas 1800 or more years before we mastered it we wouldn't appear to be as smart as we'd have the rest of the world believe and it would demonstrate where our "Inconvenient Maps" and sailing knowledge came from in the 15th century. Is that why American scholars work to prevent information that contradicts our history from being taught or even discussed? Dr. Stephen Lekson, University of Colorado professor, has recently written an essay that explains how theories of ancient North America that included elements of migration and/or diffusion were treated titled "Diffusions and Histories/ The Southwest in the World". If scholars are looking for the truth why would they put such prohibitions on the discussion of
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On February 3, 2013 I posted comments on this site that alluded to possible evidence of an ancient connection between Thailand and the Four Corners region of the North American Pacific Southwest. Have you ever heard anyone else seriously make that claim? Probably not. The reason I have brought this topic into public attention is because of the incredibly similar rock formations
ReplyDeletefound in both locations. In Thailand it is established that these rock formations like Hoh Nang Usa Rock are in areas once occupied by the Dvaravati Buddhist culture. This is also true of Pa Hin Ngam Natl Park and Phu Pha Thoep Natl Park also in Thailand. Then why is it that these almost identical formations are also found in North America at "Mushroom Rocks State Park" "The Bisti Badlands Images" "Snake Dancers Rock Walpi Village" and "The Cobra Fisher Towers". In the Bisti Badlands are rock images you have to see in order to believe Google: "The Canadian Goose Bisti" "The Sleeping Lizard Bisti" "The Flying Turtle Bisti". Petrified wood is revered by Buddhists worldwide as well as Native Americans. Is it then a surprise that scores of huge petrified wood logs are found on raised sandstone platforms throughout the entire Bisti area. Or how about the numerous very large rock carved phallic symbols like the one at "Chinese Phallic Rock Danxia China". You can see a similar rock formation in North America by googling "Buck and Mabels King Kong Dong" and images.summitpost.org/original/368640.jpg .The rocks in each region seem to tell the story of trans Pacific Buddhist influences in North America. However, there is even more evidence that Buddhism from ancient Thailand and the rest of Asia are still present today in the United States. Google: "Buddhist Symbols and Customs North America".
Hamsa (Vedic Swan Goose) in North America? Google " Canadian Goose Bisti Badlands" for what I believe is a rock carved image of Hamsa in New Mexico, USA.
ReplyDeleteThe foundation of the "Ancient Buddhists in Pre Columbian N America Theory" is the recorded official and historic report given by Buddhist missionary monk, Hwui Shan, to Chinese Emperor, Wu Ti, in 502 CE. It took until approximately 630 CE before it was entered into the Imperial Chinese Court Record. However, it was unknown in western civilizations until 1761 when it was translated by a French sinologist. For the next 70 years it was
ReplyDeleteaccepted by the world's scholars as detailing a Buddhist missionary expedition to N America. After that a controversy broke out between the French and Prussian sinologists on whether that theory was correct or not.
Ultimately the Prussian scholars won the day in convincing the world that Fu Sang, the country described by Hwui Shan in his report, was not N America.
The reasons given by them then have largely been discredited but the world
continues to believe the Prussian version. How convenient has that worked out for western civilization? Extremely convenient!! Numerous western historians have gone out of their way to misrepresent the historical facts because by doing so they perpetuate the idea of western technological superiority. They would have you believe that the "European Age of Discovery" in the 15th Century was the First Time That Any Culture Had Mastered Navigating on The Open Oceans. Google: "Ancient Chinese Shipbuilding" "Ancient Chinese Navigation" and "History of the Chinese Navy"
for sources clearly showing that the western version is not true. Also in many
westerners' minds it is not pleasant for them to think that Buddhism reached the shores of N America BEFORE Christianity even though its an established fact that Buddhism reached Europe before Christianity. Google: "Hellenistic
Buddhism" The best account of the Hwui Shan report is in a book written by
Henriette Mertz in 1953. Her book "Pale Ink" is available and free online. For the entire book google: "Pale Ink Henriette Mertz Index". For the heart of her
account: www.sacred-texts.com/earth/pi/pi04.htm or google: "Pale Ink Henriette Mertz Chapter II"
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If I was asked to come up with my most significant evidence that N America was occupied for a significant period of time centuries BEFORE Europeans ever realized there was a place that we call North America today it would have to be the Huge Chessboard Grids.
ReplyDeleteI have shown other evidence but to those images I have been told that those are just images created by random wind and rain erosion and I am seeing what I want to see. However, with these chessboard grids it is truly impossible for ANY Person of Reason
to believe that these two toned huge images in perfect rectangular squares on thousands of acres could have been created
by any random natural action. If you are interested in seeing these grids use your favorite search engine and go to "Joseph Needham North American Chess Board Grid Collection" "John Fairbairn Ancient Go Board" "Homer Dubs Priest Lake Chessboard Grids" and "Joseph De Guignes Coastal Oregon Grid Patterns".
In addition to these chessboard grid patterns you can also see
"Domino Tiles" (that is an enormous Five and a Two Domino tile you can see if you have access to Satellite Imagery) Those two domino tile are just north of "Skookum Lake, Oregon" and just west of Diamonf Lake Oregon.
It is well known that grids and grid mapping were extremely important in ancient China. "Phei Hsu and Zhang Heng-Famous Han
Dynasty Cartographers" It is also well know that the game of dominoes originated in either ancient China or India. Then why are these very old domino tiles showing up in a remote area of
Oregon? Mainstream academia can continue to try to deny ancient
Asian influences in North American. However, one must admit that it's becoming harder and harder to hold onto that claim.
"Church Rock Cathedral in the Desert"
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