The Buddha Was Black

The lost origins. The forgotten lineage. The return of a Black Buddha. The image is familiar the world over: the serene face of the Buddha, the great masters of the dharma, the golden lineage of enlightenment. But what if the standard story of where Buddhism came from is incomplete - and its deepest roots reach back through the Dravidian south of India and into the African world that shaped the ancient East?In The Buddha Was Black, #1 bestselling author Ajarn Shaman Shu (Shri Surya Narayana Swamikal) makes a bold and sweeping case: that the origins of Buddhism trace to a wisdom stream far older and more African than history remembers, and that the Buddha and the masters who carried his teaching belong to a lineage the world was taught to forget.
Inside you'll explore: The lost origins of Buddhism and the forgotten lineage behind the dharmaSiddhartha, Padmasambhava, Bodhidharma, and Nagarjuna - reconsideredThe Dravidian and Siddha roots beneath the Buddhist traditionThe African and Kemetic threads connecting the ancient spiritual worldHow the tantric, timeless wisdom of the East reaches back toward its sourceWhy this reclamation matters for how we understand Buddhism todayProvocative, sweeping, and grounded in the author's lifelong study, this is spiritual history retold - a reclamation of the origins of one of the world's great traditions, and the return of a Black Buddha.
The lost origins. The forgotten lineage. The Buddha was Black. OrishaUniversity.com and these books represent the restoration of what was taken from our people. The 256 Odu of Ifa are the original operating system of human consciousness. Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola has done what many generations prayed would one day be done. My full endorsement and blessing from Ile-Ife, the source of all.- Araba Agbaye, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
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