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Buddhists

Buddhism
INTRO

The Order of Nazorean Essenes considers itself a Buddhist branch of original Christianity. The form of Buddhism espoused by the Order is not mainstream Buddhism however. Buddhism is a very old religion which even predates the "Buddha", at least the one called Sidhartha Guatama so revered by modern Buddhists.

Nazoreans teach that Sidhartha Guatama is not the source of even the Buddhism that is attributed to him. Sidhartha is a  figurehead to which many diverse forms of older Buddhism were associated.  The Nazorean reverence for Buddha is not Sidhartha Guatama based, and many of the ideas of early Hinayana Buddhism of India are rejected as inharmonious with the deeper Mahayana and Tantric teachings of other non celibate Buddhas that predated Sidhartha Guatama. Nazoreans see the deeper and more beautiful truths of Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism as originating in teachers other than Sidhartha. Central Asian Buddhism and Bon are not seen as offshoots of Sidhartha's Buddhism or Hinduism and the more ancient Jaina current of India is considered more pure than Sidhartha's, especially when one goes back as far as Parshva. The modern forms of Buddhism closest to the ideals set forth by the Gnostic Order of O:N:E: are those of the vegan Ch'an sects of China.

The roots of Buddhism go back beyond Sidhartha's alterations of Jainism, and back beyond the beginnings of Pashva's and Mahavira's historical Jainism. They even go back beyond the first Mt. Kailish Buddhas recognized by both the Jains of India and by the Bonpos of Tibet. Buddhism is a very ancient religion which the Bonpos tell us came from Persian speaking lands west of Tibet. Ancient buddhas like Shenrab taught the dharma centuries before it flourished in the ancient kingdom of Zhang-zhung. The Order rejects the notion that Mahayana Buddhism grew out of a redefining of Sidhartha's Hinayana or Theravadic Buddhism. Northern Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism, although mixed with some elements of Southern Buddhism, have their true origins among the tall, blue eyed, and  long haired Caucasoid Guishuang tribe of the Yuezhi (lit. "Moon People") "Yuezhi"  was the name used continuously by ancient Chinese historians to designate the tribe throughout its migrations, from the time it was in the Tarim Basin (7th to 2nd century BCE) to the time it ruled the Kushan Empire in India (1st-3th century CE).)

The teachings of Bon were revealed by Tonpa Shenrab. Their origins is said to have been to the west and north of western Tibet, brought by white robed Priests from Persian lands. Both the Jain and the Bon religion use the swastika, and no doubt go back to the same source - the swastika using Yuezhi "Moon People" . Both Bonpos and Jains trace their origins to Mt. Kailish in western Tibet. Mt. Kailish was an ancient hub of a type of Buddhism that eventually became Ch'an, Mahayana and Vajrayana. Its multi-buddha worship is in stark contrast to the atheistic branch of Indian Buddhism promoted by Sidhartha.

Three contemporaries contributed to Indian "southern"Buddhism - Mahavira, Gosala, and Sidhartha. All were members of the Jain faith, including Sidhartha, and all claimed to be the twenty-fourth and final buddha in a line of ancient buddhas.

• Mahavira was accepted by many as the great Buddha, and is still revered by millions of Jains in India and elsewhere. Unlike Sidhartha, he believed in vegetarianism and a soul.
• Gosala went on to create Ajivikism. Gosala had been a companion of Mahavira for six years until they parted ways in an unfriendly manner. His sect seems to have eventually been absorbed into the Digambara branch of Mahavira's Jain followers. There are many doctrinal similarities between Gosala's Ajivikism and Jainism.
• Sidhartha Guatama, who was a bit younger than Mahavira and Gosala, started his own watered down version of what the other two had been teaching. His followers would eventually die out from their original Indian homeland, but he would become the figurehead for all things "buddhist" in other countries outside of India. Buddhism had been around for thousands of years when this Sidhartha Guatama (Sakyamuni) was born, but this does not stop many from crediting him with all of it. He encouraged the eating of what he called "pure meat", meaning meat not killed directly by one, for one, or in front of one. He also rejected the concept of the soul.