Deva–Asura & Indo-Iranian Religion
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Summary
The talk traces the word Aryan from the steppe of several thousand years ago into Persia, India, Nazi Europe, and China along the Silk Road.
The Buddhist ariya shares that root, but the Buddha moved its meaning entirely off descent.
The unexpected terminus is Manichaeism, the religion of light, which travelled from Persia to China and became the Ming cult in Jin Yong’s fiction.
Key points
A country’s name can carry its history
Iran did not rename itself to modernise but to return to a word older than Persia.
The Nazis misused a real word
Aryan denotes a language family, not a race. Turning it into racial theory was the distortion.
The Buddha used the same word to mean the opposite
His ariya means one who has trained and seen — deliberately open to every caste.
The Silk Road carried ideas, not only goods
The religion of light reached China and stayed embedded in its fiction into the twentieth century.