We know of the Scythians thanks to Greek historians – Herodotus and Lucians. However the most precious evidence of their existence and culture has so far been Scythian kurgans and their contents excavated. Throughout the vast territory where one can find Scythian kurgans – from Danube, the Black Sea region and Caucasus up to Central Asia, Altai and Far East – there in ancient times stretched the greatest of ever existent civilizations on Earth. No any empire could compare with it in either dimensions or the magnificence of spiritual culture. The Scythians were the first to unite Eurasia into one spiritual space imposing tremendous influence upon the further development of humanity.





Kurgans served for the Scythians to set off to the postmortem path of eternity their elders and heroes honored as their true leaders, who would stay in contact with unknown powers descending from heavens, cosmos and the entire universe, leading society forward along the righteous path of development.



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It took numerous centuries for the Skythians and the Sakas to settle out throughout the territories of Central Asia and Northern India, as they migrated eastwards. And there, in Northern India, more than 25 centuries back, there appeared the Buddha, Shakyamuni by name, which means a great sage from the Saka clan. In India, the tradition of erecting kourgans transformed into the construction of hemispherically shaped sepulcres adorned with a pinnacle, which came to be named as stupas.



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The Buddha instructed His disciples to cremate His body after His entering the Parinirvana, and enshrine in such stupas what would remain unburnt. For over 25 centuries eversince, the Relics of the Buddha called Sharira have been disseminating throughout the planet as a great message of Peace and Tranquility, Integrity and Harmony for the entire humankind.