Tibetan Buddhist Statue Taken By Nazis Came From Outer Space

[camerata]

Buddhist statue taken by Nazis came from outer space

A thousand-year-old Buddhist statue taken from Tibet in 1938 by an SS team seeking the roots of Hitler's Aryan doctrine was carved from a meteorite, scientists say. In a paper published in an academic journal, German and Austrian researchers recount an extraordinary tale where archaeology, the Third Reich and cosmic treasure are intertwined like an Indiana Jones movie.



Called the "Iron Man" because of the high content of iron in its rock, the 24-centimetre-high statue was brought to Germany by an expedition led by Ernst Schaefer, a zoologist and ethnologist. Weighing 10.6 kilograms, the statue features the Buddhist god Vaisravana seated, with the palm of his right hand outstretched and pointing downwards.

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[rockyysdt]

Of course Vaisravana is a mythological figure isn't he?

[TPI]

According to the article it pre-dates Buddhism! What a bizarre coincidence that after all of its journeys and the effort of some lost unnamed artisan information relating to it, via Himmler, turns up on "Thaivisa"!!

[Several]

It Rocks!

[camerata]

I wonder how this SS team managed to get into Tibet in the 30s, let alone spirit away what must have been a statue with immense spiritual and cultural value? Presumably, it wasn't too far from the border.

[mauGR1]

I wonder how this SS team managed to get into Tibet in the 30s, let alone spirit away what must have been a statue with immense spiritual and cultural value? Presumably, it wasn't too far from the border.

That was also the time of the first expeditions to the Himalayas;

The movie " 7 years in Tibet " from the homonymous book written by H. Harrer, a German climber who had the chance to meet and befriend the actual Dalai Lama, during world war 2, is a nice story about those times.

[Several]

Saw a documenrary about this. The nazis had anthropologists travelling all over the world trying to find evidence to support their 'master race' doctrine. The Tibetans were cited as being the closest to the nazi ideal. The swastika caught their eye, the idea of the Tibetan 'god king' or absolute ruler was simmilar to der fuhrer, Tibetan physiognomy was admired ( the anthropolgist took plaster casts of many Tibetans and nearly suffocated a few), all sorts of wonderful stuff. I will say it was a long time ago I saw this, but thats the general gist. Nazis liked Tibetans.

[bankei]

Lama Govinda!

[sabaijai]

Agreed, misleading. Similar headlines are all over the international press.