Did Buddhist Monks Reach North America in 1350?

Professor Nancy Davis from the University of Chicago has published “The Zuni Enigma: a Native American People’s Possible Japanese Connection,” where she develops the concept that the Zuni people in New Mexico, who are unlike any other Native American tribes in terms of language, religion, and blood type, may have had close contact with Buddhist monks who migrated in the 14th century from Japan to the west coast of North America. Although her theory is unpopular among other scientists, she points out that no one has so far managed to prove her wrong.

She states that there were Buddhist monks who were searching for Itiwanna, the center of the universe, who were part of the last wave of migration out of Japan around 1350 who could ave reached California and migrated eastward to the Pueblo people.

When we traveled through Indian country in 2009, we were well received by several Pueblo tribes when we presented them with silk khartas and copies of the Big Blue Treasure Book H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. The Lt. Governor of the Taos Pueblo at the time became very excited when we told him and the Tribe’s Governor about H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha coming to America. He told us that when he was very young he knew that there was a young boy from China who was “the one who is the root of Buddhism” who would become the highest leader of Buddhism. He felt that this child would be in His fifties then. We explained that H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III, our Buddha Master, was indeed the highest Buddhist in the universe and the root source of all Buddhism and would fit his description. We also spent considerable time with the Hopis and Acoma Pueblo leaders. I had spent time on the Acoma mesa with Dorje PaMu several years earlier.