--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > In a message dated 7/16/05 2:16:38 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > Thanks. Didn't know about the Buddhist-Glastonbury > > connection at all. And I knew Buddhists generally > > traveled to spread the dharma, but I've always thought > > of the Tibetans as being pretty isolated because of > > the geography. > > > > > > > > > > > > Tibetans came to the new world long before Buddha was ever thought > of. A > > friend of mine who's father is an anthropologist says two things > the native > > American and Tibetan have in common that you don't find in other > gene pools is > > the shape of their teeth teeth and oddly enough a red oval shaped > spot on the > > tale bone. The same gene pool that settled Tibet also migrated > north east > > and across to Alaska and on downward as far south as Argentina. > look at a full > > blooded Cheyenne or Lakota and a Tibetan and you can't tell which > is which. > > That's pretty muchthe standard explanation for the first settlers of > North America, but they weren't Tibetans at that time, and their > culture was probably not THAT similar to what we call Tibetan.>>.
You need to expand your understanding of what the word Tibet encomapsses. It is a vast network of connections, not just about Tibet, but the ancestor of Tibetan culture, whatever it was called, DID endure vast migrations , and ocean sailings (not just land bridges) and even endured in Tibet, so that is where we now find it . To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
