Buddhist Tartan?

[McMurdo]

Check out this thread

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/t....html?p=345437

[gilmore]

In the time of the Buddha and thereafter the monks would take cloth from bodies that had been left to decay in charnel grounds and sew them together for their robes. (The robes are still in patchwork for that reason.) The robes were then dyed in saffron, it being the cheapest dye on the Gangetic plain, the story goes. In many parts of the Buddhist world lay people never wear clothes that are the dark red of freshly dyed, unfaded saffron or the mustard of faded saffron, those colors being reserved for the monks and nuns.

I doubt there is a saffron link between Celts and Siddhartha, since they were separated by hundreds of miles, several mountain ranges and a desert or two.

I wrote to Samye Ling, the monastery mentioned in the link McMurdo posted, about the lay and monastic tartans, but never got a reply.