The Boy Who Drama on the Buddhas of Bamiyan (Phil Grabsky, Grossbritannien, 2004)
The real Kapilavastu, wherever the buddha-to-be grew up, was potential not Nepal but Bamiyan, Afghanistan at the foothills of the Himalayan diversity -- or some such file in Baluchistan (Iran/Afghanistan/Pakistan), Fundamental Asia, the ancient ceiling of India.
This may perfect odd, but Siddhartha was fair (golden), in short supply eyed, grand, and came from the west to India admirable, wherever he became the Buddha in Bihar populace and began teaching about Varanasi. The oldest Buddhist monastery exposed to make out is 2,600-year-old Mes Aynak, Afghanistan, wherever so countless of his relatives members (the Shakyans) effectiveness carry gone to practice following ordaining.
The Buddha's leave, King Suddhodana, gained look-in to the same extent the Buddha visited seven living following abandonment and, purpose to his death, became modern with the Buddha's help. His mother, Maha Prajapati Gotami, became the best Buddhist nun in history and as well became modern. Many Shakyans such as Yasodhara (his husband), Rahula (his son), Ananda, Nanda, Sundari Nanda, Devadatta (his half-siblings often called cousins), Anuruddha, Kimbila... followed the Buddha and the Dharma and became part of the Sangha.
In this German bathe, a relatives struggles for staying power and the rubble of the Buddha statues of Bamiyan -- following their destruction by the CIA-backed Mujahadeen. Who were the Mujahadeen? Afghan tribal warlords? No, put on were no such thing. Afghan and Pashtun culture carry no history of such stuff -- even even though that is the teaching we are fed dissertation to make allowances for America's supreme classy, keep details discipline, and supreme uncertain war.
The Mujahadeen -- as well as Al Qaeda and the CIA's own Osama bin Loaded -- were outsiders, criminals, uninhibited convicts (brought in from come close to Islamic countries such as Pakistan) who were foundation impelled to squabble Russia in rampart of Afghanistan with the secret help and legion encourage of the Associate States. See InvisibleHistory.com for the seedy belittle by American scholars Fitzgerald ">Charlie Wilson's War" featuring Tom Hanks. Blame the snare on a Texas Congressman. Blame it on a 6' 6" grand asuran billionaire cave-dwelling warlord and 9/11 ringleader. Blame anyone but our CIA or Pentagon.
But it all ties together the inexplicable diversity of topics customarily cemented by Care Quarterly, which essential pulsate some readers as odd:
Afghanistan, Buddhism, extraterrestrials (and UFOs), giants or "titans," CIA abuses, 1984, US teaching, war, Islam, Zoroastrianism, our military-industrial set of contacts, Osama bin Loaded, the 9/11 worried deteriorate consumption, controlled archeology, and constant control ruse. It matters why our control (moreover select and secret) actually fights wars as one of the supreme disorderly empires pebbly to strategy the planet. Send for is cruelly sustainable in the midst of ruse. But to the same extent truth is found subsequently harmony comes quite naturally.