Yeah, better not. we have lots of incredible Hulk, history has it that along Afghanistan silk road these historical figures was brutally destroy the hulks😅
@@Model3GenerativeANdroidHaha, what an odd bit to share. (But it should be common knowledge to practising Buddhist) We are going off tangent here, but yes, Buddhism can be regarded as an atheist religion.
My grandfather worked mining and land clearing, he told us that throughout his decades long career they found a lot of statues like this, many of which were life size just like this or even larger, but because those statues were seen as "wrong" so they were destroyed, if only he knew the historical value that those statues had he probably would've tried to save a few, but I guess putting foods on the table for his family was the sole focus of a worker's life and not worth risking his job defying the orders of land owners and employer, or worse, be prosecuted for theft. I'm glad that they found this one and hopefully more will be unearthed by the right people.
ya hence my surprise how come it was not disregarded or worse destroyed like how it was done a few years ago to build houses in kedah...uncomfortable truth for many but good job usm for doing this without fear or favour
Respect to the USM archeologist. Not many people in the world today can even understand or read the Sanskrit language, let alone someone outside of India.
many people in the world can still read and write sanskrit. the language is still widely used, we have sanskrit scholars globally. infact we have sanskrit as a recognized language in south africa
In Kelantan, Perlis and Kedah, many ancient Buddha statues had been destroyed , without heads or arms , by the local Malays who did not appreciate the ancient history of Malaysia. They destroyed according to the teaching which hates statues and this brought bad karma on the northern states .
@wong.weekiong212 Just like in Afghanistan where they bombed the largest Buddha statue, and now it's gone, what's left of it is a huge empty slot in the wall. The same people in those northern states also support those that now rule Afghanistan.
An awesome archaeology find that defines the multicultural diversity our country shared amongst its citizens and should be celebrated and preserved as our Country's heritage.. Well done team Malaysia.
aiyo the comments... the focus should be on the team, archaeologist Nasha, and what a great job they did! Preserving our history for the next generation to study is the only real legacy we can leave behind
It's stunning. We two share a long history from the ancient past! 4:36 we also share similar architecture from the past. From Native Khmer in Mekong delta (Vietnamese Cambodian) send love to Malaysian!
FYI China Civilisation start 5,000 years ago. Chinese people migrated southwards to Vietnam, Thailand(Siam) Malaysia and Singapore. Back then Malaysia and Singapore are Siam or Thailand country. All these are Chinese people that later identified as Vietnamese and Thailand people. They are the same China people. Not surprising Bujang Valley Kedah is a Thailand city before the Malays from Indonesia migrated over and populated the Kedah cities. Bare in mind 1904, Thailand hand over Kedah, Perlis. Terenganu and Kelantan to the British.
I have seen one of the very old short standing lamp with relics of 4 elephant's head and one peacock at the middle on the top of the lamp just coincidentally caught by oldest brother fishing net in the river nearby my hometown in Kedah. My brother take those old fashioned lamp back to my home then at the middle on night my youngest sister at her child starting to crying hardly and continuously then leaving all of us in panic and fatigue along that night. My young sister just stop crying when its reaching almost at a dawn then she seems like really exhausting to crying anymore and the same situation happened to us for every middle of the night for a week. My father then seeking a paranormal healing because he spotted something went wrong with the situation. Just a moment a while the ceremonials started, a paranormal healer told us there are a very ancient young princess look alike wearing like very oldest Kingdom like Khmer or Ayutthaya appear to him. She said all of the messing was because my oldest brother bring back home those very old standing lamp to my home. After negotiating and discussion between the paranormal healer and the entity finished, the problem are settled as those ancient princess promise don't ever messing with my family anymore. My father then decided to give those ancient standing lamp to the paranormal healer then he hand over that's artifact to one of the Hindu's monk somewhere in Sungai Petani. The Hindu's monk really surprisingly and shock then want to pay some moneys to that's paranormal healer because the artifact are really old and rarely one. He said that time, Hindu are the first foreign relegion reaching to Kedah, more earlier than Buddha based on that artifact bronze made first sighting by him. The paranormal healer are very satisfied and he refuse to take the moneys because he's really in traumatized and already can not stand with a messing after messing anymore after take that artifact and he just give it to the Hindu's monk just for free and back home in happily. 😄😄
@@truthful3777 ok then how bout 200 years ago...and then 500 years ago? and then 1000 years? 5000 years? 10000 years? we need to stop talking about who and whose. just live happily..
@@taiton2661 You happy because you are Lordship status. Which country in the world practice Lordship and Special Privileged? Buy house cheaper , got back door entry to Universal....You only Happy...Most of us not happy even though we came earlier to this land while the latter claimed to be the indigenous..All kes Temberang.
@@truthful3777 In Indonesian history base on kaladi inscription 906 CE. There is no malays word term. Just people of nusantara especially in java archipelago. Meanwhile there areany foreigners in Nusantara. Kaladi inscription 906 CE : People of ariya dravida pandhya shinghala kling, khmer mon cham and hunjeman (arab romans merchants) are foreigners. They must pay foreigners tax as traders or workers. They must stay in ports, can't stay in city or villages.
@@galaxymetta5974 History shows that Malay is hindu @ Buddhist before Islam.... But still Malay. Balinese is Hindu butl still balinese not Indian.... 😅
Salute to the archaeologist team. To me this is why we must stay together united, even from our crazy governments and politicians or anyone that try to break us apart.
Malaysians, please Respect multiculturalism and diversity as this has been deeply rooted in our beloved country, in our ancient civilisations, in aeons beyond our apprehension. And now, such diversity could make us so valuable from the angle of history, modern thinking, unique adaptation, and harmony living; So why are there still grounds of support to racisms and non-recognition as being routinely pursue by those irresponsible polititions and parties for their political benefits?
@@matahari8673 Tahniah yg kita terjumpa patung ini semua. Terbukti sejarah melayu kita ada tamadun yg lama sampai ribuan tahun. Kalau takde bukti sejarah ni, org akan ingat kita baru keluar dari hutan berapa abad yg lalu je.. walaupun tamadun kita tak selama China dan India yg sampai lima ribu tahun, sekurang-kurangnya pun ada bukti lebih seribu tahun..
Dii Sungai Batu, Kedah, terdapat bukti arkeologi yang menunjukkan adanya penempatan manusia sejak zaman prasejarah. Kawasan ini merupakan salah satu tapak arkeologi tertua di Asia Tenggara dan telah ditemui banyak artifak yang menunjukkan kewujudan aktiviti manusia, seperti industri besi dan struktur bangunan, sejak abad ke-5 Sebelum Masihi. Sungai Batu juga dipercayai sebagai salah satu pusat tamadun awal di Kedah yang memainkan peranan penting dalam perdagangan maritim di rantau ini.
2:18 Bukit Choras buddha face features (also carving style) must be analysed & compared with buddha statues around Asia. From there we will know which part of old kingdom influenced this candi the most. Jesus statues, buddha statues & Hindu statues in different continents shown different face features (and carving styles) that influenced by local wisdom & culture.
And what type of material was used to make the statue..is it a local material or foreign..n the inscription to undeestand what type of Buddhist doctrine was embraced then. Im sure there were moats surrounding the hill.
Agree, definitely a very distinguish feature this Buddha rupa of Bkt Choras, very different fr Thai, Burmese, Champa style - very handsome this statue.
@@TheDevaser Bro Malacca is full of Christian monument yet tourism flourish I hope this too will boost tourism but watched at Sungai Batu state I'll be concerned
@@ibmibm691 If you have been following closely, there is deep rooted hinduism and buddhism. We must embrace it all and be humble to everyone. The country is now creating a new narrative following arab culture. This is a problem when we try to be more arab than arab. Look at the middle east. It is a culture of false supremacy.
@@ibmibm691 If you have been following closely, there is deep rooted hinduism and buddhism. We must embrace it all and be humble to everyone. The country is now creating a new narrative following arab culture. This is a problem when we try to be more arab than arab. Look at the middle east. It is a culture of false supremacy.
@@ibmibm691 Sejarah Melayu = Malay History that covers the timeline of human civilisation from Mesopotamia>Egypt>India>China>Champa/Funan. It involves Language which breeds Culture which breeds Civilisation (LCC). Religion is secondary though equally important to understand how a civilisation expand and adapt.
Usm has an archeology museum and an art and gallery museum. Do visit for those interested in others findings❤. It is at the back of usm. U might get lost along the way tho. Even many students dont know about it.
Every learned person knows our history should be based on archeology evidence. However in Malaysia we have too many Prof Kangkung that's still talking history based on stories.
From the lips and the cloth its more likely similar to mathura style buddha statue after 5 century， the Pallava scripts beneath also supporting they both are influenced by southern india Buddhism .
Ancient records has mentioned that King Ashoka of India had dispatched a group of Sona and Uttara, two Buddhist missionary leaders to Survanabhumi which might encompass at least part of the Peninsula back in the 3rd century BCE. And the existence of many Buddhist-Hindu kingdoms from early common era prior to the inception of Malacca such as Langkasukha, Old Kedah, Chi Tu, etc. all show Buddhism-Brahmanism would have been the major religion for over a millennium in the past.
artifact of native were changed to paragliding shithole lmao look at Bukit Meriam once was a capital of Old Kedah and Srivijaya was destoryed by pure greed
Malayan peninsula was once part of Majapahit Conglomerate, this is not a surprise, what surprise me most is how little malaysian archeologists know about Malaysian history.
@@tanned06 Buddhists never build kingdoms (especially Theravadans, I am one of them), let alone calling it powerful while it is just a bunch of smaller settlements by today standard communicating with each other. That is why I use the term conglomerate instead of empire or kingdom. And thank you for correcting me, it is Srivijaya.
@@tanned06 however, we cannot deny the importance of Buddhism in SEA region that it helps maintaining peace by dampening tribalism (very obvious when we look at borneo island which were least affected by buddhism, where the idea of tribal territories is stronger) and advance the living standards of everyone involved.
@@liasonlee1248that's weird. Srivijaya is an empire, a Mahayana Buddhist empire to be exact, headed by a buddhist ruler. It became a buddhism religious centre too, and a lot of Buddhist Chinese pilgrims would come to Palembang to before visiting India.
Southeast Asians were Hindus and Buddhists for centuries before Islam. I love history being rediscovered. Be proud - your ancestors built these ancient temples!! Be proud of your history and millennia-long ties to the land. I wonder how many more ancient temples and statues are still buried underground throughout Southeast Asia.
Wrong...There were Muslims too but since we did not build statues, you can hardly find any artifacts..the Muslims lived harmoniously with people of other religions.
@@inezy6329 that’s exactly why I said “before Islam”. Do not be so negative about the history of your country! There are bound to be artifacts because Malaysia was not an empty piece of land since the bronze age. Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia have their own enormous, ancient temples that they profit off and are recognized on an international scale, finally Malaysia comes on board. The entire Nusantara was once unified, be proud of that the history, culture and the hardwork of your ancestors!
@@nsalleh9493no relevance to my comment whatsoever. Do not disregard these historical findings and nullify the past just because they have embraced a new religion. Nevertheless, be proud of your history!
@@nsalleh9493To answer your question, there is no right response because “correct religion” is subjective. The Filipinos converted from paganism to Christianity, to them it is the correct religion as well. There’s that.
The Malays had their own culture and traditions. Have nothing to do with someone else that come later. The Malays may be converted to Islam, and they never forget where they come from. So don't just because it was Hindus or Buddha or other before, you or anyone else wants to discredit Malays ancient culture, tradition, and civilization.
Thanks M'sia for protecting history. Buddhism is not a threat to any religion as it teaches us the way to conduct ourselves in our lives here on Mother Earth.
Malaysia has tropical weather. If we follow human migration from Africa. Human stop in the equatorial land like malaysia before the migration proceed into far east and deep into continent. However the problem is that, the hot and humid weather prone to decay. Almost everything vanish.
That and Malays prefer to use wood, which doesn't last very long. Which is why most of the traces of Srivijaya are gone besides Borobudur which was made by Javanese with stone
Great historical finding for the Buddhism and show it's greatness and influences for hundred of centuries in Malaysia. The beauty of the Greatness of the Buddhism makes Malaysia well- respected by all mankind👍👍👍.
@@tammyloo9165 Malaysia is a FEDERATION country formed at 1963 after colonised by British. Before colonised there were separated Malay nation in Peninsular.
The Sanskrit inscription contain the verses from the very profound text Sagaramatipariparrcha. The last two verses explained the doctrine of Sunyata (Emptiness nature in all phenomenas). This, I really believed the hypothesis that this ancient 10th century Buddhist master by the name Dharmakirti Sunarvarpidva was a Kedahan (Kedah Tua).
Interesting. Dig back to 5,000 BCE, it will be more interesting. Go back another few thousand years, we will shake hands with Perak Man, his family and the populace.
Malaysia's past is Hindu and Buddhist in origin. Just like in Johor. Near Kota Tinggi is another site which is purposely neglected because it is also of Buddhist origin, not Islamic in origin.
We are near to thailand. That's why we have buddhism long time ago. Mostly non muslim nowadays migrate frm some where else. My grandfather say he is frm china. Most his friend qt that time is frm china too. So the buddha statue maybe frm majapahit or srivijaya era which also maybe because kedah is near to thailand boarder. Interesting find
@@JL-od4wg i not sure about Malay origin. But i know my ancestor origin, my root...my grandfather and my grandmother all that. Other than my family, i cant have a certain answer for them. But you say "Malay Monk", i just think this term is a whole new term for me. That's why i find it funny. Not to anyone but me.
History and groundbreaking archaeological find aside it's interesting how Malaysian English media are becoming more and more American-accented these days
@@matahari8673 Please go find out about the Mongol invasion of Java. The Mongol not only conquered China, they conquered small parts of the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe.
we have to be careful, thoughtful and respectful when conveying "multi-culturalism" in Kedah Tua because many will try to imply that this has nothing to do with Malay people. That these ancient relics are crafted and worshipped people other than the natives at that time. The Malay people have been on this land for thousands of years. Long before any other cultures i.e Chinese and Indians who tried to undermine the Malay people's claim of nativeness to "Tanah Melayu" by saying they are "from Indonesia"!! The problem lies within the many of the Malay people themselves. They refusal to acknowledge that their forefathers were not muslims. Peace to all is what we should all strive for.
Throughout history, humans in this region choose and convert in and out to different religions according to their understanding and beliefs, until certain religion put a death punishment/threat from converting out. That's History.
I am surprised that srivijaya and Majapahit empire era is not focused in the history books now. We were taught Malays were from funan empire move south to now old kedah before srivijaya influence, majapahit and even Chola empire. Only after Admiral Zheng He. Hui muslim from Ming dynasty agreed on the treaty with Paremewara did Melaka empire flourish and power given back to Melaka sultanate. Not true old history books?
@@timeaftertime-om7os one hypothesis yes. Remember when an empire spreads there tends to mix marriages and but does not mean Malays came from India. The austronesian hypothesis is the strongest, link to Taiwan indigenous people and move across the regions. They are known great mariners
because Srivijaya period had many empty blanks.Majapahit empire greatest extent is bullcrap since they cant even win against small Sunda empire.Chola empire is a raiding like drunked man robbing 7 Eleven History had many empty blank with Beruas and Manjung didnt even mentioned in textbook.Also we should had more history of Kelantan and Kedah instead of Malacca but since Malacca is pinnacle of Malay culture history were leaning to Malacca and Johor
the term Malays have two meanings 1. a race of brown people (Jose Rizal from the Philippines used this term) 2. an ethnic group who lived on Malaya, Southern Thailand and Myanmar and most parts of Sumatra as well as small part of Borneo
These statues are similar to the Bamiyan Buddhas. Are they built around the same time? Perhaps some Afghan Buddhists were in Bukit Choras? Just guessing.
Buddism is a religion, not race. Ketuanan is related to race. Please wake-up. Malays were Buddists in the past but they were still Ketuanan at that time
@@nsalleh9493 Where is your sense of irony? "Ketuanan" is just a silly joke for people who feel inferior - and needs to feel "superior". For what we know - and that's still very little, there wasn't even a "Malay" race at that time. And nobody knows what a "Malay" is, the term was invented by a German "anthropologist" and covers a big number of races and tribes.
@@lola1987fudgeyouu in china, uyghur muslims suffer in concentration camps. And india has the caste system. grass greener on the other side? be grateful you are at least tolerated. don't spurn the host as a guest
The archeologist must consult records of ancient Chinese monk , Yi Ching , who travelled by sea between china and northern India during Tang dynasty, which reveals true culture of Malaysia at that time.
The statue should be protected in its original location and not be removed from the site.Restoration of that entire area is vital for future generations.
Most likely Srivijaya empire. I suspect the Pallava script potentially proves Pallava empire has diplomatic relations with the Srivijaya king at that time. Never heard of Pallava empire influence in Kedah. However exciting to let the experts uncover this. Some uni profs are still trying to smother the fact that all malays were mostly Hindus and Buddha before Parameswara (>1500) which is a silly ethnonationalist movement .
Actually the word Kedahram is mentioned in Sillapadikaram which was written in the 3rd century. So the early Tamil Kingdoms, most likely the Pallavas, did have trade links with Kedah
This has shown that the Buddhist history has came to this land longer than you thought. . Don't argue and still claim it's your only land.. Respect the evidence that tell everything ..
I also want to argue that malays were in british islands first but they weren’t and i have to accept & respect that. You also just have to accept facts. It’s called redha.
xde yg pelik masa kerajaan Langkasuka pon melayu masa tu beraga buddha.. cuma pelik dari dlu xde usaha lansung nk pulih kn sejarah melayu xde baru sekarang nk ada
Too many artifacts buried in Lembah Bujang showing Buddhism influence in Malaya. The Malay language words like "Purnama" are sanskrit & means moon or fullmoon. If you learn yoga in sanskrit, you will find too many malay words 😅😅😅😅
Where is our history it was taught during school days in 19th but sad to said after mathatir took over as education minister history of malaysia began to evaporate
@@DemoNinja79 u know how long BukitChoras discovered？infact sejarah in 80‘s has mentioned hindu buddha exist in semenanjung very long time. new discovery?
From the net: It is clear from these records that Parameswara never converted to Islam. He was an Indian Hindu or an Indian/Malay/Aboriginal Malay mixed Hindu who fled Palembang in Sumatra to eventually found Melaka circa 1400 AD
@@travelpackgamerzthen who? ofc its Malay people with Buddhist and Hindu religion. Youre like asking is it true if China is actually Chinese people living there since the beginning of time.
even the current buddha (gautama) is only 500BCE. kedah tua is even older than gautama and jesus. kedah already have weapon forging technology from iron smelting. that's very advance.
egypt, china, india etc... hv a very large archaeological research teams with thousand unearthing treasures of the past...m'sia has less than 6 people digging up the buddha... thy want to supress any findings which proves malays were here from the 15th century not 1,200 yrs ago
highly probable that the same people in Bukit Choras abandoned the place afterwards and moved on and traveled north to build the great Angkor Wat in Cambodia...
Not even close - this rupa of Bkt Choras more elegant, very good looking to anything that compares to Angkor Wat/a Hindu shrine but the various Buddha rupas there came much later
