Tibetan And Delphic Oracles Comparison

With the information provided, I will compare the similarities and differences between the Tibetan and Delphic Oracles. There are many striking similarities between both oracles and a few interesting differences. The Oracles of Delphi and Nechung wielded extreme religiopolitical power in their respective worlds. Wars were started and ended on their prognostications, effecting countless lives and dramatically molding historical outcomes. To their devotees they were given the wondrous opportunity to commune with the voice of god. Both involved the process of communication with a divine entity, most critically to deal with issues of national security and political intrigue, which were usually imminent in nature. The method of transmission
The origination mythology of both Oracles involves the conquest of a demonic chthonic deity for the appropriation of a superior god for the benefit of worshipers. Though the religious origins of both oracles are founded on shamanistic traditions (involving altered states of consciousness to intersect with the spirit world), both eventually came under the auspices of a temple, then under the religiopolitical state sponsorship of the Amphictyony consortium for Delphi and the Dalai Lama's regime for the Nechung. For both cases, the questions posed to the mediums had to be submitted to the priests before the ritual was
Modern research of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, the Indo-Greek Kingdom, and Greco-Buddhism, which I have delineated, has demonstrated the intense cross-cultural interchange that occurred over a period of three centuries, when this region was ruled by the descendants of the Greek colonialists left behind by Alexander the Great. The achievements of the Bactrian Greeks were far reaching throughout Central Asia and research continues to elucidate clear evidence of a highly wealthy, sophisticated multi-lingual and multi-cultural urban