It is outright racism and a distortion in history that Black people do not get a clear view of the History of Christ or the History of Buddha. There have been many Buddhas through out time in space.  Godfrey Higgins says that Buddha in ancient Africa was Hermes Trismegistus.  Nichiren Daishonin the of Japan writes that Brahminism comes from distorted teachings of  Buddhas before Shakymuni Buddha. Historical evidence shows that Ancient India was part of the Axum Empire in Ethiopia.  The original Indians and African were the same people in the Bible they were called Cush or Kushites.  In India in the Rig Veda they were call Naga people. You see the Naga people in Ancient Egypt with the King  Cobra Snake. Godfrey Higgins writes that mythos in Egypt came from India.

We African/Americans get our history of Africa from a racist system that is skewed against Black people.  Also when it comes to Buddhist teaching we in America get a Buddhism that is skewed in favor of Japanese people.  What the Japanese or Whites fail to point out as Godfrey Higgins points out is that Buddhism in India took different paths.  On one hand you got the White Hindu Buddhist that allowed the Buddha into the Hindu Pathelon.  The Brahmins or Whites destroyed Buddhism in India.  Racism in the world distorted the both the Christian and Buddhist African influence in originating the religions of Buddhism in Christianity.  

The Kingdom of Kush or Kush was an ancient African kingdom situated on the confluences of the Blue Nile, White Nile and River Atbara in what is now the Republic of Sudan.

Established after the Bronze Age collapse and the disintegration of the New Kingdom of Egypt, it was centered at Napata in its early phase. After king Kashta ("the Kushite") invaded Egypt in the 8th century BC, the Kushite kings ruled as Pharaohs of the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt for a century, until they were expelled by Psamtik I in 656 BC.

During Classical Antiquity, the Kushite imperial capital was at Meroe. In early Greek geography, the Meroitic kingdom was known as Ethiopia. The Kushite kingdom with its capital at Meroe persisted until the 4th century AD, when it weakened and disintegrated due to internal rebellion. The Kushite capital was subsequently captured by the Beja Dynasty, who tried to revive the empire. The Kushite capital was eventually captured and destroyed by the kingdom of Axum. After the collapse of the Kushite empire several states emerged in its former territories, among them Nubia.

This Axum historical and archaeological site is in , central Tigray (Tigray Region) today.  Rightly famous for its obelisks, Axum was the capital of the Axumite kingdom – once one of the four kingdoms of the world. It was also home to the Queen of Sheba whose ruined palace and bathing pool can still be found in and near the town. Records show that the Axum empire ruled India.  All of India was once African.  Africa and India traded for centuries and they are from the family of Nubians, or Cush or Naga People.
Unlike what White history teach about Africa we find at the time of the Buddha in India advanced civilizations and institutions or religion, culture and teaching in Africa. Moreover you will find a history of 1000's of years of trade and interaction between India and Africa between what the Greeks called the Ethiopian people or those with brunt skin. Buddhism in India came from "Black Dynasties or Kingdom. Historical evidence show that Buddhism was in Africa early after Shakymuni Buddha. Later in Buddhist history we find that "King Asoka" of India send Buddhist missionaries into Africa. The Buddhist missionaries were called Gymnosophist.  Look on the map above you see Kush or the Nubians.  The Nubians conquered Egypt. On the map you see the Capital of Nubia or what was then called Ethiopia.  The Capital of Kush was "Meroe."  Buddhist missionaries entered Kush for hundreds of years.  The Buddhist introduced the Kharosthi script or written language of the Buddhist in India spoken by King Asoka of India.  The foundation of the Merotic script was Kharosthi.
When you study Black history you learn about the Ancient Nubians.  In the Bible they are called "Cush" or Kushites. When  you learn African/American Buddhist history you learn that the "Nubians" and the "Naga" people in India are one and the same people.  You also learned from my lecture that the Buddhist in Ancient Africa were called Gymnosophist.  We learned that Buddhist or Gymnosophist were in Sudan or Meroe the ancient capital of the Nubians. The Apedemak capital was in the city of "Naga" in Sudan.  Buddhist scholars introduced Buddhism to Africa. Buddhist came before and after King Asoka sent missionaries to Meroe.  We know that the  Buddhist language of  Kharosthi was spoken and influenced the Meroe writing language system.  Clearly the "Lotus Flower" etched in stone at the Apedemak Temple proves the Buddhist influence and relationship in Africa. 

Ethiopians have had very intimate relations with Indians. In fact, in antiquity the Ethiopians ruled much of India. These Ethiopians were called the Naga. It was the Naga who created Sanskrit.  A reading of ancient Dravidian literature which dates back to 500 BC, gives us considerable information on the Naga. In Indian tradition the Naga won central India from the Villavar (bowmen) and Minavar (fishermen).

The Naga were great seamen who ruled much of India, Sri Lanka and Burma. To the Aryans they described as half man and snake. The Tamil knew them as warlike people who used the bow and noose.  The earliest mention of the Naga, appear in the Ramayana , they are also mentioned in the Mahabharata. In the Mahabharata we discover that the Naga had the capital city in the Dekkan, and other cities spread between the Jumna and Ganges as early as 1300 BC. The Dravidian classic, the Chilappathikaran made it clear that the first great kingdom of India was Naganadu.

The Naga probably came from Kush-Punt/Ethiopia. The Puntites were the greatest sailors of the ancient world. In the Egyptian inscriptions there is mention of the Puntite ports of Outculit, Hamesu and Tekaru, which corresponds to Adulis, Hamasen and Tigre. 

In Sumerian text, it is claimed that the Puntites traded with the people of the Indus Valley or Dilmun. According to S.N. Kramer in The Sumerians, part of Punt was probably called Meluhha, and Dilmun was probably the ancient name of the Indus Valley. (Today some scholars maintain that Oman, where we find no ancient cities was Dilmun and the Indus Valley may have been Meluhha).

Ancient Ethiopian traditions support the rule of Puntites or Ethiopians of India. In the Kebra Nagast, we find mention of the Arwe kings who ruled India. The founder of the dynasty was Za Besi Angabo. This dynasty according to the Kebra Nagast began around 1370 BC. These rulers of India and Ethiopia were called Nagas. The Kebra Nagast claims that ” Queen Makeda “had servants and merchants; they traded for her at sea and on land in the Indies and Aswan”.  It also says that her son Ebna Hakim or Menelik I, made a campaign in the Indian Sea; the king of India made gifts and donations and prostrated himself before him”. It is also said that Menalik ruled an empire that extended from the rivers of Egypt (Blue Nile) to the west and from the south Shoa to eastern India”, according to the Kebra Nagast. The Kebra Nagast identification of an eastern Indian empre ruled by the Naga, corresponds to the Naga colonies in the Dekkan, and on the East coast between the Kaviri and Vaigai rivers.

The presence of Meluhhaites/ Puntites in India may expain the Greek tradition of Kusites ruling India up to the Ganges. It would also explain the Aryan traditions of Mlechchas ( Sanskrit name for some of the non-Aryan people) as one of the aboriginal groups of India. Many scholars associate the name Mlechchas with Meluhha.

The major Naga tribes were the Maravar, Eyinar, Oliyar, Oviyar, Aru-Valur and Parathavar. The Nagas resisted the invansion of the Cholas. In the Kalittokai IV,1-5, the Naga are described as being “of strong limbs and hardy frames and fierce looking tigers wearing long and curled locks of hair.” The Naga kings of Sri Lanka are mentioned in the: Mahawanso, and are said to have later become Dravidians, as testified to by the names of these people: Naganathan, Nagaratnam, Nagaraja and etc.

The major gift of the Naga to India was the writing system: Nagari.  Nagari is the name for the Sanskrit script. Over a hundred years ago Sir William Jones, pointed out that the ancient Ethiopic and Sanskrit writing are one and the same.

William Jones, explained that the Ethiopian origin of Sanskrit was supported by the fact that both writing systems the writing went from left to right and the vowels were annexed to the consonants. Today Eurocentric scholars teach that Indians taught writing to the Ethiopians, yet the name Nagari for Sanskrit betrays the Ethiopia origin of this form of writing. Moreover, it is interesting to note that Sanskrit vowels: a,aa,’,I,u,e,o, virama etc., are in the same order as Geez.

The Ethiopian script has influenced many other writing systems. Y.M. Kobishnor, in the Unesco History of Africa, maintains that Ethiopic was used as the model for Armenian writing, as was many of the Transcaucasian scripts. Dravidian literature indicate that the Naga may have introduced worship of Kali, the Serpent, Murugan and the Sun or Krishna. It is interesting to note that a god called Murugan is worshipped by many people in East Africa.

It is interesting that Krishna, who was associated with the Sun, means Black, this is analogous to the meaning of Khons of the Kushites. Homer, described Hercules as follows: “Black he stood as night his bow uncased, his arrow string for flight”. This mention of arrows identifies the Kushites as warriors who used the bow, a common weapon of the Kushites and the Naga.

Buddhist teachings emerged into the fabric of African culture for over 500 years before Christ. When you get to the original teachings of Christ in its original and African form you will find that the teachings of Christianity is the exact African teachings of Buddhism and that of the Buddha Shaykumuni.  The Buddhist in Africa had Temples and strong Clergy.  The early clergy was African.  The  Word "Christ" is a "Title." In some cases it represents and "anointed" or chosen one.  A "Christ" can also be a "Buddha" or an Enlighten being.
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