[Buddha-l] Darwin's 200th centennial

[Vicente Gonzalez]

Christopher wrote:

CF> The myth is that the Tibetan people are the descendants of
CF> the union of a demoness and a monkey. (Later versions have
CF> it that the monkey was an emanation of Avalokiteshvara.)

there is a similar history with the min-kopies or "man-monkeys", a
supposed ancient people previous to the Aryan civilization, who lived
in the actual Andaman islands. Source is "Encyclopedia of Religions",
J. Forlong, 1906.


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