Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Bodhidharma - Red Hair?

Yesterday I listened to an episode from Red Ice Radio titled Bodhidharma: The Blue-Eyed, Red-Bearded Barbarian. I won't link to it as I felt it had mildly racist undertones that I feel uncomfortable promoting without comment, but it contained some interesting information regarding red hair, and it's there on YouTube for anyone that wants to search for it.

The main thrust of the interview was that Bodhidharma, the famed Buddhist monk, was a red-haired, blue-eyed European. He's apparently described as 'blue-eyed' and 'red-bearded' in ancient texts, and also depictions of him in art show him as a red-bearded European.

(Incidentally, the names Bodhidharma and Buddhist look quite similar to me.)

Apparently, a lot of people were referred to as 'red-bearded' in eastern texts, the Chinese regarding all foreigners as red-haired barbarians. This seems like something worth delving into more. I've never really looked very deeply into red hair in the east, so I might have to widen my net a bit and start searching.

The guy being interviewed also stated that the native-American Mayans put on fake red beards to signify their nobility.

4 comments:

  1. Bodhidharma is the legendary Buddhist who took Zen to China and estalibshed the Shaolin Temple.

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  2. My Tatar or gutian or gotar gotarians anscestor a scyth scuth Scot a mostly Ari ore iron yanna batta hammer people Israelite Scythian red haired blue eyed temujin or Genghis khan

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  3. Gotars or Tatars have a bit of Turkic and mongolic and samurai Japanese from the hundreds the Scythian khan had train his warrior elite us Tatars the mid East only became arabised 600ad the Irish Brits Danes danites graikoi of the danaans blonde Achilles red haired Odysseus the darker Greeks Pelasgians north Africans

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  4. Stop listening to lefties commie lies about history I am part gypsy and Asian I ain't a racist and Nazis ain't righties national socialist lefties what a rightie is yet to be defined

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