[Buddha-l] [Fwd: Buddha - a Scythian Arian?]

[Christopher Fynn]

Jayarava wrote:

> I have seen this claim before and it seems that 
 > the confusion is between the śakyan ('sakyan) clan,
> and the śaka ('saka aka Scythian) people. The Buddha 
> was not a Śaka, and as far as I know there is no evident 
> that the Scythians were anywhere near East Indian by 500BCE, 
> although they did briefly rule Gandhāra (in the far 
> north-west) during the 1st century BCE.

Since this professor of political sciences puts Jesus at 3,000 BCE,
I wonder when he imagines the Buddha lived?

- C