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@nigeh5326 4 месяца назад

The giant statues of the Buddha were blown up and destroyed by the regime in Afghanistan in the nineties. A tragedy not just for Buddhists but for humanity

@silverstudios6916 4 месяца назад

War sucks

@basedmase777 4 месяца назад

@@silverstudios6916yeah, right "war". People are so afraid in the West of calling out Islam, its baffling. It's like not being able to say Voldemort in Harry Potter.

@9051team 4 месяца назад

@@basedmase777 so you are saying that only Islamic wars destroy relics?

@gothicfan52 4 месяца назад

They were specifically targeted by islamists for being non islamic. @@9051team It's a bit more relevant than 'war bad'.

@kweassa6204 4 месяца назад

@@9051team Maybe he skipped that part about the Great Iconoclasm in history class, when Byzantine Christians reveled in destroying THEIR OWN artworks in droves.

@aokhoinguyenang3992 4 месяца назад

Fun fact: The real life monk Tang Sanzang(whose journey was adapted into Journey to the West) heard about the legend of the Amazon(the Greek legend) while in India. This legend was then adapted into the Journey to the West as the Woman kingdom(the location was moved to between China & India; culture was also changed to be more Eastern). I believe this is also the inspiration for the Chinese Amazon village in Ranma 1/2

@kingdaymon6433 4 месяца назад

RIP Akira Toriyama

@aokhoinguyenang3992 4 месяца назад

@@kingdaymon6433 Yeah, DB was also inspired by Journey to the West

@HistoriaofEasternMedieval 4 месяца назад

There was a Woman Kingdom, Actually at least two, and it was confirmed because it wasn't just Xuanzong who reported this. Everyone in the region was aware of and interacted with them. At least There was also a Silla monk who traveled the same way as Xuanzong. the Kashmir kingdom's history describes a war with a female kingdom in the Himalayas. It is called Satri Raj(स्त्रीराज्य) on the border of present-day Tibet and Nepal. . Even Tang Dynasty official documents mention their existence, such as the Tang Hui Yao (唐会要), but they focus on the Eastern Woman Kingdom. Located in Changdu (昌都市: the easternmost district of present-day Tibet, bordering Sichuan) and Yushu (玉树: the southern district of Qinghai Province, bordering Changdu), they were the Zampa(སུམ་པ) or Qiang (羌) migration which became the economic and military resource for Eastern half of the Tibetan Empire. As for Satri Raj, it is in the western part of the empire. . "...Women are the rulers of the land. As such, women are the name of the state. Husbands rule together without involvement in politics. But they raised an army to fight and conquer the land. The soil is suitable for living, growing wheat, and having many sheep and horses. Cold weather The nature of the native people is easily irritated. It is bordered Tubo to the east, Yutian to the north, and Sanbohe(三波诃) to the west..."

@JKingSniper 4 месяца назад

Loved that series

@JustAnotherAccount8 4 месяца назад

Just a little expansion of avatar: you might already know this, but the four nations are inspired by real world cultures. the fire nation is inspired by Japan, Earth kingdom is inspired by china, Air nomad(s) are inspired by the tibetan monks and the water tribes are inspired by the Inuit peoples (think eskimos) Also, the four bending styles are inspired by real world, Tai chi for water benders, Hung gar for earth benders, Northern shaolin system for fire benders and Baguazhang for airbenders (if you've seen Naruto, this is the one that the 8 trigram fighting style is from which is what the hyugas use). They got professionals to display these so that the animators could recreate a grounded system of magic that isn't unfamiliar.

@samrevlej9331 4 месяца назад

2:38 Slight slipup here: Tibet is southwest of China, and has been annexed by the People's Republic of China since 1951. Which is why the current Dalai Lama (spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism and for a time theocratic head of state of Tiber), who was a child at the time, has been living in exile ever since. The movie "Seven Years in Tibet" with Brad Pitt is an entertaining, albeit heavily fictionalized and sanitized, retelling of this story. But Mongolia *is* indeed north of China and is also heavily Buddhist (of the Vajrayana/Tibetan school), to my knowledge (although they were a communist state for almost as long as Russia, so that probably had a huge impact on religion in the country).

@skylervalentinetoglia 3 месяца назад

Fact check Mongolia was never communist only socialist in 1924

@samrevlej9331 3 месяца назад

@@skylervalentinetoglia Shorthand, socialist states of the 20th century are called communist

@MalikF15 4 месяца назад

No worries about the references to your religious beliefs. It helps to draw parallels to our own beliefs

@2SSSR2 4 месяца назад

Fun fact about Xuanzang - in folklore he is also been depicted as a women. So if you heard his story (Journey to the West) and in it he appears as either men or women - both versions are correct.

@d.e.seymour6792 4 месяца назад

This of course explains why in the 1978 Japanese tv adaptation of Xi You Ji, Xuanzang is played by an actress.

@wiseone1013 4 месяца назад

Buddhism is awesome. Meditation helped me quit smoking and drinking + removed my fear of spiders. Becoming extremely quiet and still like a monk can be a powerful experience with all kinds of benefits. We can change the circuitry of our minds during sustained meditation. The Buddha is the best, from all philosophy I study east or west the Buddha is the wisest among all men.

@gauravtejpal8901 3 месяца назад

The Buddha Siddhartha Gautama is also called 'the great physician'. Rightly so, the Dhamma has a healing effect 😊

@GideonGleeful95 4 месяца назад

Slight correction: Tibet is West of China and North of India

@foreverblue1646 4 месяца назад

It's also south of China (Xinjiang province and the Hexi corridor, gateway to the silk road).

@OhOkayThenLazySusan 4 месяца назад

Been watching your videos for a long time now and I am enjoying even more than the history, you're perspective and sharing about religion.

@rasapplepipe 4 месяца назад

The Parthian prophet Mani created a religion that syncretized Christianity and Buddhism called Manichaeism.

@aokhoinguyenang3992 4 месяца назад

There is a bonus episode about Buddha's wife if you are interested in reacting to

@basedmase777 4 месяца назад

Would you be down to do a similar series on the history of Christianity? it would be cool to hear all the historical insights you might have that most don't on the subject and I imagine you are pretty passionate about the subject as well, which would be fun!

@Mtioo1 4 месяца назад

Finally this Indian history channel does more Buddhist history

@keithakers7223 4 месяца назад

Thank you so much for doing these! There is so much South and Southeast Asian History that we aren’t taught in the US (and tbf, you can’t teach everything) that videos like these are really invaluable. I learned a lot and I find it really interesting how many parallels there were between Buddhism and the Abrahamic religions.

@sebastiansvendsen3100 3 месяца назад

Hey VTH. Love your content, it's really been the best way to rewatch some of my favourite history videos on RU-vid, and you have or are currently doing commentary on most of the videos that I like to watch for most history content. I really hope that you would soon get back to your look at Historia Civilis' Ceasar playlist, can't wait for your to give your take on his assassnation, which i think is the most fascinating part of the playlist, duo those historic qoutes ''Et tu, Brute?'' & ''Beware the ides of march'' Thanks again for all the great content!

@veteran17865 4 месяца назад

In regards to the "hope you don't mind" at the end of the vid, I'm loving it. I would love to see you covering more world religion stuff Hinduism would be fun in addition to Islam.

@jasonmcintosh3661 4 месяца назад

Always love your balanced and respectful approach to every topic. Thank you.

@Yora21 4 месяца назад

In the famous German play Faust, the main character is introduced having a spiritual crisis and tries to find clarity reading the bible, starting with John 1. He only makes it to the first sentence and then just further sinks into despair over how "logos" should be actually translated into German. Is it "In the beginning was the word"? Or should it be "the meaning"? Or "the force", or "the deed"?

@LeSethX 3 месяца назад

Interesting that "love" has different meaning in Greek. I have often said that English lacks enough variation on the word, which could be used for "I love my spouse/children/friends/pets/job" and each would have a different meaning

@michaelmurphree4972 4 месяца назад

Fascinating work as always Chris! Interesting trivial RE the Silk Road. Both Nestorian Christianity and Manichaeism would reach China traveling east during the same Tang Dynasty period. The emperor supposedly met with Nestorian missionaries, reviewed the scriptures and agreed to their value and veracity and permitting their propagation in China. There is a stone stele from the Tang Dynasty documenting the meeting of Christianity and the empire. Meanwhile Manichaeism took on more Buddhist elements as it moved east. The last Manichaen temple (Cao’an) is still in Fujian province, although now it is a Buddhist temple.

@samrevlej9331 4 месяца назад

Really enjoyed this series and the introduction it gives us to Buddhist history. You might wanna check out their other series on Angkor Wat (or Vat) at some point, it's a nice case study of how one civilization adopts Buddhism and evolves alongside it.

@samrevlej9331 4 месяца назад

And once again I'll pitch for some reactions to Islamic history, either from Kings and Generals or EpicHistory TV.

@Jazzi_may_94 4 месяца назад

9:12 any fans if Yuri on ice? Immediately thought of Yuuri Katsuki who got Eros while Yuri Pilsetsky who got Agope when they were training under Victor?

@anitatereszczuk3967 4 месяца назад

Small thing I thought about when you mentioned clergy members outfits. I always thought that pastor dressed in a suit is a mostly an American thing, as where I live, pretty much all clergy members (including different Christian denominations) wear either cassock or toga during Sunday mass. I wonder if the outfit (even the modern one) is somehow closely connected with the country of origin. Or perhaps it's more of a sign of when this denomination came about

@roballister5269 3 месяца назад

9:50 wow thanks for sharing that !! u need to do a video about your bible understanding would love that

@stibbs427 3 месяца назад

Dunno if you read these comments, but if you're interested, Cool History Bros has some very good videos on East Asian history.

@VloggingThroughHistory 3 месяца назад

I read every comment!

@Revanchistus 4 месяца назад

Thank you for your own religious reflections! First of all, I missed that you are a pastor, which is extremely interesting and explains why you speak so soothingly well 😂 Secondly, any religious tale gets more interesting when put into comparable context. Your knowledge, thoughts and experience were to the point and enriched the story, so, thank you!) wondering, maybe there will be some religion-related content in the future?) I’m an atheist myself, but given my background in political theory I was always interested in religious as a system of moral philosophies. And, to be honest, with years I even start to feel strange envy towards religious people, who purposefully spend time contemplating eternity, purpose, values, and spend time in a community of likeminded people.

@AndrewStamelakis 3 месяца назад

It's also quite interesting what role the Greeks (out of nowhere) played in all this. The statues! If you see earlier Indian style you'll notice their art is very different. The kingdoms Alexander the great left in the east influenced art and just like that people were making all shorts of statues in the styles the Greeks brought with them. That way Buddha statues were being sold across the silk road and Buddha now had a face along with a name and made the idea way more compelling to Chinese.

@JKribbit 4 месяца назад

In Japan, the phrase has another addition which is "born a Shinto, married a Christian, die a Bhuddist" because typical Japanese weddings you do a Christian ceremony with a pastor or priest along with Shinto ceremony if the couple wishes.

@TheHottrod3000 4 месяца назад

Such a fine example of how history repeats itself.

@shanefrederick7731 4 месяца назад

Great job as always

@marro1916 4 месяца назад

The video is 17 minutes long it came out 11 minutes ago. No way you watch the whole thing lol

@robertjarman3703 4 месяца назад

It being highly syncretic reminds me of some of my favourite shows. Sailor Mars for instance attends a Catholic school, but is a priest in Shintoism but her chants, archery, napalm, and many catchphrases are Buddhist, while she doesn't actually have any particular beliefs expressed that indicate much belief in any religion as we would think of it being true, although in her story, reincarnation is real without a doubt as she personally underwent that a couple of times and remembers her past from hundreds of thousands of years ago.

@Michael-zi3kk 4 месяца назад

Thanks for your excellent commentary Sam you truly are one of the 10 Indian history RU-vidrs

@prestonjones1653 3 месяца назад

12:05 Another thing, a lot of theboldest Catholic saints were never really people at all, just reskinned pagan gods, like Brigette, one of the most important saints in Ireland, was the celtic goddess of the forge and metalworking.

@samyaksharma6686 4 месяца назад

would love to see more Indian history on your channel. Love the work!

@uncleheavy6819 4 месяца назад

Having delved into most of the great religions , they all kind of have a similar underlying message....do the right thing, look after each other, and don't be an a**hole.

@Magnustopheles 4 месяца назад

Yeah, the cosmic reasoning varies from religion to religion, but the messages are generally the same. Of course, that's ignoring the way those religions are practically applied, in which they almost always fall into totalitarianism due to some kind of fear of cosmic punishment.

@gauravtejpal8901 3 месяца назад

Abstain from unwholesome deeds. Perform only wholesome deeds. And purify the mind 🙏

@kwoonie3840 4 месяца назад

I don't comment often but regarding your apology at the end for using your own religion as a way to understand others... I'm a very left leaning, openly gay atheist and I love your content. Even when you let your own biases and beliefs (which is very, very rare) in through your commentary, it is never heavy handed and I never feel like you're preaching to me, even when you are actively quoting scripture. Part of enjoying a reaction youtuber is liking what they bring to the table. Being able to watch someone use their own journey to understand another's is extremely useful and I think being unable to do that is why we've lost a lot of common ground on a myriad of subjects. Even if your end goal is a great vehicle style conversation, conversation doesn't happen if both sides are unable to recognize the other as a human being with an entire lifetime of lived experience. TLDR- Don't worry about the tiny fragments of time you use your Christian background in your commentary. You are FAR from the type of Christian people complain about for doing that.

@ArnaudReille 4 месяца назад

I hope that the next reaction would be about Napoleon in Egypt part 2 by Epic History!

@phantomtitan9792 4 месяца назад

Interesting video

@santoshshrestha8671 4 месяца назад

YOU ARE WELCOME 😊 BUDDHA WAS BORN IN NEPAL 🇳🇵 HOLIEST PLACE NOT IN INDIA 🙏🙏🙏

@whoisjoe5610 3 месяца назад

No such thing as Nepal in 6th century BCE, jaake momo bana aab

@fruitpunk 3 месяца назад

you should do the cuban missle crisis next

@kweassa6204 4 месяца назад

The remarks at 4:10, I think, would probably most accurately display the sharp discrepancies between what westerners understand as "Buddhism" as opposed to how most Buddhists (in terms of demographic) understand their religion. Because, realistically speaking, the Vajrayana sects are pretty much a stark minority as compared to the Mahayana or Theravada. If we compare it to Christianity, the Mahayana and Theravada would be like Protestantism and Catholicism (in terms of numbers, not actual teachings) whereas Vajrayana would be a demographic way smaller in proportional comparison to Orthdoxy. Mahayana makes up for more than half of the demographic in Buddhism. So this really shows how a fad or popularity can very greatly warp public perception. And the biggest of such "warped perceptions" is ironically, what this series also has stated in the opening when it mentioned "most people take in Buddhism as a series of morals, ethics or philosophical principles." In reality, most Buddhists do not. It's a fully functioning religion where the infusion of elements of pre-existing religions into the system has a long, long history. The "Buddhism doesn't worship deities, it's just a philosophical attitude in life. So you can be even Buddhist and Christian at the same time" etc etc.. yeah, sorry, no. That's not how it works.

@svenrio8521 4 месяца назад

Well like they say, Faith without works is mortis.

@Davanthall 4 месяца назад

6:42 Me, inside my head and just about to say it out loud: hey! That's just like- Chris: _finishes my exact thought_ ....Ok dude you gotta stop doing that, this is getting creepy. 😂

@Stosszahlansatz 4 месяца назад

Off topic: who are the people shown on your RU-vid channel banner? I can identify only five of them. :-)

@user-wn2fh7cr3x 4 месяца назад

Please can you react to the conflict it is a Russian anti war stop motion film made in 1983 it is seven minutes long instead of people it has match stocks

@xGEOBOMB11 4 месяца назад

Great series! For the early Islam history I recommend Caspian Report's series

@atompunk5575 4 месяца назад

Cool how the shaolin where born in this time 😅

@younusadiallo5094 4 месяца назад

Can u check the rise of the abbasid caliphate by epic history

@carkawalakhatulistiwa 4 месяца назад

10:20 That's the reason why Muslims don't translate the Koran because the meaning can change just by translating

@hggfhh4449 4 месяца назад

Do a video on Robert Spencer's rating America's presidents please.

@anathardayaldar 4 месяца назад

What did the zen monk say to the hotdog vendor? "Make me one with everything."

@jacobcochran3743 3 месяца назад

If you do another religion video i think you’ll like Zoroastranism Explained by Cogito

@TheIrishNational 4 месяца назад

Asking as a Catholic, how is a Christian to accept freedom of religion without being sinful whenever Jesus says to spread the word?

@anderskorsback4104 4 месяца назад

I suppose it depends on whether you consider that commandment to come with an implied corollary "with any means necessary".

@technoguy1290 4 месяца назад

freedom of religion means anyone can practice any religion without discrimination against them. Freedom of religion does not mean you cannot spread the word and convert anyone, that would be anti-convertion laws stuff like in malaysia. No freedom of religion is something like saudi arabia or iran where u cannot openly practice any religion other than islam not even build churches or worship loud inside your own house and get killed if u leave islam.

@jordanhooper1527 4 месяца назад

Out of interest, how come US Americans pronounce Buddha, boodha. They pronounce other words like Budweiser and not boodweiser. I'm intrigued where that might've come from?

@JorichoCualing 4 месяца назад

When do you react on Epic History TV

@grantlawrence611 4 месяца назад

This was really interesting series. Perhaps if Islam comes along or a series on Christianity in history. Thanks

@user-wn2fh7cr3x 4 месяца назад

I met to say sticks sorry

@user-wn2fh7cr3x 4 месяца назад

The conflict dose not have much to do with history at the beginning there is many parallels history at the beginning tho

@gangulsamaranayake 4 месяца назад

Useful charts did a buddhist denominations vedio!! Just saying!!

@jriver226 4 месяца назад

Additionally on Bible translations you have really different translations based on agenda, ideas, and even norms from the time. The famous and dominant King James translation was written less formally but became formal, but even then choose pro monarchy wording, and lost some of the characterization of the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. The danger is (and this is what one person said to me) taking it as the only correct translation with God's endorsement meaning you lock yourself from a deeper understanding of context, word choice, and bias.

@technoguy1290 4 месяца назад

Fun fact: Even the people who wrote KJV said in preface to use multiple translation to compare and their translation is not the only perfect one.

@lorihagerty7833 4 месяца назад

Just going to say that Tibet is not north of China.

@VloggingThroughHistory 4 месяца назад

Correct. I meant north of India.

@foreverblue1646 4 месяца назад

It is north of a part of China, Xinjiang province, where the gateway to the silk road is located, the Hexi corridor.

@Joer7511 3 месяца назад

Talk about your psalms, talk about John 3.16 ......

@Siegbert85 4 месяца назад

Tibet is North of China? You sure?

@stevesmith4600 4 месяца назад

The whole "Mahayana" thing, and even the parallel with Christianity that was presented (eating certain foods, or not) all for the sake of getting converts and to an end goal ... just seems so disingenuous. It feels a step away from straight out lying to people, just to get them to believe in your god. If your invisible man in tge sky has a set of rules to live by, then clearly state them, and have everyone follow them. If he doesn't have any rules for certain subject, then let people do as they please, and call out religious leaders who start making up silly rules that don't pertain to something the invisible man wants us all to do. This hand-waving of certain rules, just to get more believers in one's faith is Machiavellian.

@technoguy1290 4 месяца назад

with respect, I disagree with you on number of fundamentalism people in islam. Its true that the fundamentalist groups are not the majority in most religion but when it comes to islam 70% of muslims are fundamentalist all you need to do is search for muslim commentators in youtube. Maybe its true in US that there are less fundamental muslims but in rest of the world fundamentalism is the main view of islam. I have so many muslim friends (most of them are non americans) and most of them are fundamentalist 100%. sure not as extreme as ISIS but for sure as extreme as IRAN or saudi arabia. I have never met a single muslim who does not get really angry or threaten you if you point out stuff about their religion. like take charlie hebdo cartoon of muhammed , you would be shocked how many muslims actually support the killing. you would also be shocked how many muslims would support capital punishment for apostates. no hate towards muslims oir anything but just saying that fundamentalism is big in islam and im sure even muslims here would agree with me on that. which is why islam has been a big issue.