Did the Buddha Have Iranian Origins?

Could the sage have descended from the Iranian-speaking Scythians of the Steppes?

Prateek Dasgupta, M.S.
Teatime History
Published in
11 min readMar 2

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The Buddha
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Did the Buddha have Iranian origins? Was he descended from the Scythians? When I first came across this theory, I thought it was a conspiracy doing rounds on social media.

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Prateek Dasgupta, M.S.
Teatime History

Top writer in History, Science, Art, Food, and Culture. Interested in lost civilizations and human evolution. Contact: prateekdasgupta@gmail.com