Bharat Rakshak

sudarshan

What's wrong is this whole notion that we know the "ideal" temperature at which to maintain this planet, and that we need to implement some kind of global thermostat (at any cost - monetary or otherwise) to achieve and keep that "ideal" constant temperature. There is an ideal te...

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believe it, it's the most factual bit of the movie. :wink: Wow, for some reason I thought we had one casualty. Don't know where I got that from. It seems the total collection (including overseas) has crossed 260 cr. India is at 180 cr. And the line "How's the Josh" is now big time popular...

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Watched it (with SHQ)! Theater in massa was only 20 to 25% full, but that seemed to be true of all movies in that complex (maybe not a popular complex overall). Far from being grossed out by violence, SHQ was yelling "How's the Josh" the next day at me! No slick dialog like massa movies, d...

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Hmm... I also see that there is a difference between 'thakkali' and 'tomato'. 'thakkali' is very much part of our food culture, being the tangy ingredient in curries such as sambar and rasam. tomato is a european vegetable that is used to make ketchups. And did you know that the Cows in India (Bos ...

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Take her. Tough but ladies have to suck up the harsh reality too.let her see the plight of the poor girl Its they who mostly advocate aman and compromises Please do tell SHQ that when it comes to verbal surgical strikes on you, there is no dearth of violence. :rotfl: Their apprehensions are well pl...

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SHQ is kind of queasy. She knows terrorists deserve it, but too much violence, and she'll gross out. Would it be too much for a female viewer, do you think? If so, I might have to go by myself.

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Lilo ji, you might want to edit your post as well. I did think twice before posting that, guess I should have thought thrice

. Nothing wrong with what I posted, just that, as you pointed out, it would be counter-productive in this particular thread.

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Seems like a big mobilization.

Edit: Removed some sensitive material. Sorry, Lilo ji, was just responding to Karan M's post, and I guess it went off on an unnecessary tangent.

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Sorry for late reply. Kinda distracted by all political drama going on now. Yes, human mind needs idols, but did our vedic ancestors used idols(moorthi)? That's where I am having problem with the whole story. If we observe IVC sites, we don't see any temples. They have public baths. I am firm belie...

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When performing puja, my grandpa would take a bath, wear fresh clothes, and then totally avoid contact with anybody (even the closest family members) till he was finished. None of us were allowed to even approach him, let alone touch him, and we would get summarily shooed away if we even accidentall...

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Meenakshi Lekhi defends Sabarimala traditions in parliament.

Subscription site, and I don't want to undercut this site's finances by posting the article here. Swarajyamag is doing good work, and deserves to be supported.

Hope this is the prelude to some action.

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Sudharsanl ignorance alert: Will Silapadhigaram, Manimegalai, civaka cintamani provide any Indian viewpoint? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manimekalai Beyond the parts of them that appeared in தமிழ் poetry in text books in School, haven't pursued them Also Tamizh Shaiva and Sri Vaishnava texts ma...

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The relations between the Hindus and the Indian Buddhists were not always cordial. Its quite possible what you say may be true. But, in the end, the guy was just an uncultured cheeni who did not know enough to be thankful or even merely diplomatic instead of using such uncouth language to berate hi...

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If he "sang for his supper," that means he was saying the things that the Indian Buddhists wanted him to say. Which means the bigotry was from India. But that point could be moot because it seems Hsuan Tsang wrote (or dictated) his memoirs at the request of the Chinese emperor, once he was...

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JEM saar, this is what I wrote in the previous page of this thread: Now here's what I say - let's consider some possibilities: 1. Fa Hian and Hsuan Tsang were unbiased, but the translator was not. GOOD! This means that even this biased translator was unable to find anything in Fa Hian's or Hsuan Tsa...

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We are talking about a Chinese interpretation of social milieu in India, written in Chinese, and then re-interpreted by a colonial interpreter carrying his own theological/civilizational baggage - and with no other frame of reference on which to draw upon. I'm not sure why we are taking these peopl...

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These quotes on the wods "True Path", "Heretic" & "False" - are they yours or Fa Hien's? The words in backets (Buddhism & Hinduism) are they yours or Fa Hien's? You might get a sense of a distinct difference, because there is a difference between what the Buddh...

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There's a problem with this approach, particularly in English, because the words "Hindu" and "Buddhist" are both primarily used in the English language (as well as other European languages over the last 3-4 centuries). In the time that we are referring to, presumably from 600 BC...

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' http://sanchitakarma.blogspot.com/2013/11/majma-ul-bahrain-new-thought-to.html Sorry I didn't realize that references were not in the article that I posted above. I have posted the article again with the references to be honest I actually had to check them myself. Wrote that many moons ago. From ...

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Here's one- in Bhavabhuti's play "Malati and Madhava" a Buddhist nun Kamandaki, living in a Buddhist convent, acts as a go between to bring the two main characters( both Hindu) together. A Hindu dramatist saw nothing unusual in portraying a Buddhist in a positive way. It speaks of peacefu...

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I got several comments along the lines of "why should we examine relations between Hindus and Buddhists based on the words of foreigners, rather than looking at Indian accounts themselves?" Well, go for it, guys. This foreigner's account is all I know right now, and I've been waiting for o...

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Sudarshan, not to divert from the thread, but I had earlier written a article on this regarding Dara Shikoh and what he wrote called the Majma Ul Bahrain ; ie mingling of two oceans. Copies I believe are available online, for which you can readily delve into his mind of what he was thinking and wha...

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It will be instructive, to begin with, to record precisely when the terms "Hinduism" & "Buddhism" came into the English/French/German languages. Just before the Europeans arrived, I don't think the non-Muslim Indians called themselves "Hindus" and "Buddhists&q...

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Indians who where taken out of India as laborers or workers had caste. be it tamils in Malaysis or Burma. one thing missing was discrimination. marriage used to happen between caste but based on caste of father kids get caste assigned. dalit caste is mostly missing in overseas Indian taken by briti...

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Couple of points: * If the European translator had a lot of anti-India bias, one would expect to find liberal references to caste-discrimination and persecution in the text. I do not see that (this is not offered as proof of anything, only as a negative indicator). * In many instances, the translato...

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* Hsuan Tsang's book: he repeatedly refers to Hindus as "heretics" and "unbelievers" and pities their way of life Sudarshan'ji 1. Do you know chinese and particularly classical chinese? Have you translated Huen Tsang's translations from Budha sutras to Chinese to English? 2. Hav...

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What was the relative proportion of Hindus and Buddhists in the areas they visited? My enquiries suggest that Buddhism was destroyed by the invading Huno-Turks and finished by the Islamic invasions in the north-west. In mainland India most got absorbed into the Hindu fold but conversion to Islam ca...

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* Hsuan Tsang's book: he repeatedly refers to Hindus as "heretics" and "unbelievers" and pities their way of life * He talks about how the Buddha converted the Devas themselves, and how the Devas became subservient to him and accepted his superiority * He has many, many stories ...

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Disha-ji, my post on that Tamil teacher stuff was incidental to the main point, and only made in response to Sridhar's post above. It is not of much importance. Please see my bulleted list (reproduced again in the post below), which is more to the point. Do you have any thoughts on that? Specificall...

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^I do not know what stories your Tamizh teacher said in school regarding Buddhism/Jainism. To state that there was 'conversion' between buddhists and hindus and jains and each treated other badly is basically buying into the western concept of religion and evangelism hook, line and *stinker*. In ef...

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The stories I heard from my Tamil teacher in school regarding Buddhism/ Jainism in TN are diametrically opposite to what you will find in Wikipedia or other sources online today. Let's leave it at that for now, if it gets to the point of starting a new thread on this topic, I will post more there a...

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Had typed a long post that got lost while posting. There are similar stuff in Tamil epics and poetry which talks about how Tamizh country got converted to Buddhism and Jainism in the manner mentioned in Sudharsans post primarily though coopting the king, black magic practices against Shaiva Saints ...

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>>And I'm saying, that reading those travel records by those Chinese men, it does seem like Buddhism had become that absolutist faith system back in 400 AD. I have only read bits and pieces, arbitrarily, of the Chinese visitors - and it was quite a while ago, so I do not recall. But is this true of...

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However, it is a worthy topic for another thread if anyone has the stamina to start, manage and guide it. It will be instructive, to begin with, to record precisely when the terms "Hinduism" & "Buddhism" came into the English/French/German languages. Just before the European...

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>> I'm beginning to be firmly convinced of the viewpoint (don't remember who put forth this view) that Christianity is simply Buddhism repackaged around Christ. This point of view is not new, and there are plenty of theories as to how this could have come about - there are quite a number of books b...

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People, please stick to the topic of the thread. The divergence into a discussion on Hinduism vs Buddhism, while it can be useful in terms of understanding how Buddhism was basically debated and ritualled out of dominance, does not address the thread topic except for observational purposes. However...

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me thinks lot of bs in the post above. Buddha never coined or invented new religion. Nor do its followers claim it so. Infact Buddhism is nothing but refined form of Hinduism. something like if orange is Hinduism then orange juice is Buddhism removing the skin fiber etc etc. (as an example only). A...

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Buddhism is great in theory. On the practical side, it falls down however. Passiveness and non-violence in the face of violence does not work. When India became Buddhist under Emperor Ashoka, India's military shield was set aside and the end result was massive foreign invasions and looters to the s...

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Reading Fa Hian/Hsuan Tsang currently. It seems that practically *everything* which the EJs are currently trying in India, has been tried in the past, 2000 years ago, with massive success, by the Buddhists. Denigrating and ridiculing the "heretic" Hindus, going after them for conversion, ...

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Nicholas Dirks mentions that british writings till late 18th century virtually made no mention of caste in India. He has written a book called "castes of mind". Available in Amazon Colin mackenzie a British historian says that many Indian sources prior to 18th century had no mention of ca...

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