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Is Gautam Butda a White Person With Blue Eyes?
Gautam butda is being described these days using artificial intelligence you know, reconstructions. So it's completely wrong to say that what Gautambutda was a white person with blue eyes. And secondly, the Japanese depict this as Japanese. This is not any kind of justification. I mean, it's not her fault that the AI has thrown out this image. Maybe she's given certain prompts that made this depiction of apparently Buddha look like he is of Greco-Roman extraction. Well in Pali I would be described as being pale with brown eyes. It doesn't make me a white person. If I had blue eyes, that would not make me awhite person.
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