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Nazi-Acquired Buddha Statue Came From Space
LiveScience ^ | September 26, 2012 | Stephanie Pappas

Posted on 09/27/2012 6:21:53 PM PDT by EveningStar

It sounds like a mash-up of Indiana Jones' plots, but German researchers say a heavy Buddha statue brought to Europe by the Nazis was carved from a meteorite that likely fell 10,000 years ago along the Siberia-Mongolia border.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: History; Religion; Science
KEYWORDS: buddha; catastrophism; elmarbuchner; ernstschafer; germany; godsgravesglyphs; heinrichhimmler; meteorite; mongolia; nazis; siberia; space; statue; tibet
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To: UCANSEE2
Well, its authenticity matters less than the behavior surrounding the icon itself. The story in the Koran revolving around Abraham helping Ishmael set up this particular icon in Mecca in the first place is even more tenuous than the authenticity of the black stone.


21 posted on 09/27/2012 7:25:06 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Windflier; EveningStar

Space Statue PING!


22 posted on 09/27/2012 7:26:21 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL

Pretty cool find. I hear that it’s a priceless artifact.


23 posted on 09/27/2012 7:28:01 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Olog-hai

Look at the brick work on that thing. The workmanship absolutely sucks.


24 posted on 09/27/2012 7:30:58 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

LOL!

Monty Python And The Holy Grail - The Holy Hand-grenade Of Antioch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOrgLj9lOwk


25 posted on 09/27/2012 7:34:00 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Windflier
Look at the brick work on that thing. The workmanship absolutely sucks.

These are the folks responsible for higher level math and great architecture, don'cha know. (Does it really need a /sarc tag?)
26 posted on 09/27/2012 7:46:06 PM PDT by Renderofveils (My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
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To: SunkenCiv

I keep forgetting to ping you to these types of threads (smacks self in head).


27 posted on 09/27/2012 8:05:13 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Renderofveils
These are the folks responsible for higher level math and great architecture, don'cha know.

Yeah, which they stopped producing right around the time a certain pedophile goat humper appointed himself as their messiah, and halted all further development of their culture.

28 posted on 09/27/2012 8:13:17 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: EveningStar

;’)


29 posted on 09/27/2012 8:38:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: EveningStar
The carving depicts a man, probably a Buddhist god, perched with his legs tucked in, holding something in his left hand.

That is Padmasambhava and he is holding a vase with a wish-fulfilling jewel on it.
There is no such thing as a Buddhist god.

30 posted on 09/27/2012 9:19:16 PM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: ETL

His left hand is in the ‘earth witness’ mudra. That is how Buddha Shakyamuni is usually depicted. This is Padmasambhava and I have never seen a representation of him using that mudra before. According to the article this was probably carved around the 8th to 10th centuries. Padmasambhava gave teachings in Tibet in the 8th century.


31 posted on 09/27/2012 9:33:21 PM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: ETL

Oops, I got that wrong. Mixed up his right and left hands.


32 posted on 09/27/2012 9:46:52 PM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: ETL

33 posted on 09/28/2012 12:26:23 AM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: UCANSEE2

I had heard that it is a bag of coins.


34 posted on 09/28/2012 4:23:10 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: ETL; Revolting cat!; JoeProBono
What is he doing with his left hand?

He has some bird seed in his left hand and with his right hand he's feeding the pigeons in the park, signage be damned.


35 posted on 09/28/2012 5:54:17 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
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To: a fool in paradise
Looks more to me like he's doing something one might get arrested for doing in the park, or in a movie theater. But I'm probably wrong.


36 posted on 09/28/2012 7:30:20 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: EveningStar

One night in Bangkok...Siam’s gonna be the witness
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
This grips me more than would a
Muddy old river or reclining Buddha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9mwELXPGbA


37 posted on 09/29/2012 10:48:22 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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