Author Archives: Pastor Eli James
FRIENDS, THIS ONE IS IN THE “BELIEVE IT OR NOT” CATEGORY, BUT HERE IT IS:
FROM the on-line Siddhartha Glossary Sakya (Shakya): derived or descended from the Sakas, from whom the historical Buddha came, whence his honorific Sakymuni. “Sage of the Sakyas.” As the major migration of the Sakas and Parthians (Indo-europeans, Mongolians?) to India does not appear to have taken place before the fourth century B.C., the establishment of…
