Exploring India

[Joe Shearer]

Chinese Dragon is setting an example to Indians how to behave on an India-specific thread, and contributing to our knowledge of interesting social customs elsewhere. The least we can do is to humbly acknowledge this dignified and positive approach and stop getting side-tracked.

 

[KRAIT]

@Syama Ayas Buddy, replying to him is already derailing the thread. He is getting what he wants. Delete your posts so that relevant post can be seen on one page. Otherwise it gets hard for someone who is interested in "Exploring".

Report and Leave him. Kindly share any experience you have, any post regarding local customs, trend in your society and anything that describes the diversity of our country.

@Chinese-Dragon Buddhism is like water. It takes the color of whatever color is mixed into it and also get absorbed in the society.

 

[Gandhi G in da house]

Many people say that Kung Fu (Gongfu/Wushu) was brought to China by the Indian Buddhist monk Batuo (Buddhabhadra).

This is not quite correct.

In fact it was Batuo who started the Shaolin Monastery, which led to the creation of one of the most well-known forms of Chinese martial arts, Shaolin Kung Fu.

But this was not the first Chinese martial art. In fact Chinese martial arts existed in China almost 1000 years before the creation of the Shaolin Monastery. Shaolin Kung Fu is just one of the most famous forms, not the first.

Indian and Chinese civilisation have always contributed a lot to each other throughout history i guess . now China is also contributing a lot to India.

I just really hope this little border dispute gets sorted quickly.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Can you tell me about the type of Buddhism followed in Mongolia. Do you too have something like Japanese Zen.

Zen Buddhism is the same thing as Chan Buddhism. It evolved this form in China, then spread to the rest of East Asia.

Zen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Zen is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the 6th century as Chán. From China, Zen spread south to Vietnam, to Korea and east to Japan.

The word Zen is derived from the Japanese pronunciation of the Middle Chinese word 禪 (Modern Mandarin: Chán), which in turn is derived from the Sanskrit word dhyāna, which can be approximately translated as "absorption" or "meditative state".

So Chan 禪 (not the surname Chan, it's a different character) is a phonetic approximation of the Sanskrit word dhyana.

The Japanese pronounce this character as Zen.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

@Chinese-Dragon Buddhism is like water. It takes the color of whatever color is mixed into it and also get absorbed in the society.

It should be NOTED that Buddhism did not come to China through the sword, like how the Romans spread Christianity in Europe.

In fact it was the Chinese traveler/scholar "Xuanzang" (old spelling: Hsuan-tsang) who voluntarily took a VERY long journey to India, despite the formidable barrier of the Himalayas.

There he picked up Buddhism, and brought it back to China. And it was willingly and voluntarily absorbed into Chinese culture.

There are many who stereotype China as being hateful of anything foreign and closed-minded to the world. In fact this is not true, China has willingly absorbed many ideas and systems from around the world. We were not forced to do so, but we did it by choice.

 

[Hindustani]

LOL nice thread KRAIT

There's this zumba class at the gym that constantly plays Bollywood songs. The video reminded me of just that.

 

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India Is First Lady Kims Ancestral Home

Korea's first lady Kim Yoon-ok is a descendant of one of India's royal families dating back two thousand years, according to the presidential office Monday.

The presidential couple arrived Sunday in New Delhi for a four-day state visit. It is the first visit to India by a Korean president since 2004.

The office said Kim is a descendant of Heo Hwang-ok, a princess who travelled from an ancient kingdom in Ayodhya, India, to Korea.

Heo arrived on a boat and married King Suro of Korea's Gaya Kingdom in A.D. 48, according to Samguk Yusa, an 11th-century collection of legends and stories.

The chronicle says Princess Heo had a dream about a handsome king from a far away land.

After the dream, Heo asked her royal parents for permission to set out on an adventure to find the man of her fate.

The ancient book indicates that she sailed to the Korean Peninsula, carrying a stone, with which she claimed to have calmed the waters.

Archeologists discovered a stone with two fish kissing each other in Korea, which is a unique cultural heritage linked to a royal family in Ayodhya.

The stone is evidence that there were active commercial exchanges between the two sides after the princess's arrival here.

The princess is said to have given birth to 10 children, which marked the beginning of the powerful dynasty of Gimhae Kims.

Members of both the Heo and Gimhae Kim lineages consider themselves descendants of Heo Hwang-ok and King Suro. Two of the couple's 10 sons chose the mother's name. The Heo clans trace their origins to them, and regard Heo as the founder of their lines. The Gimhae Kims trace their origin to the eight other sons.

An analysis of DNA samples taken from the site of two royal Gaya tombs in 2004 in Gimhae, South Gyeongsang Province, confirms that there is a genetic link between the Korean ethnic group and certain ethnic groups in India.

Over the past decades, there have been efforts to shed new light on the historical links between Korea and India. In 2000, a Gaya clan raised money to send a large memorial tablet to India and establish a park in Ayodhya.

“Yeolseongjosugyo,” an ancient book, which was produced for the descendants of Kim Yu-shin, a Silla general under the commission of the previous kings, is on display at the exhibition titled “My Name is Ploenchit and I am the Mother of Hyun-su.” The exhibition shows lives and cultures of
immigrant women who married Korean men at the Jokbo

 

[Yogi]

Vedic Mathematics

Vedic mathematics is a list of sixteen basic sūtras, or aphorisms, presented by a Hindu scholar and mathematician, Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja, during the early part of the 20th century. While its author claimed it to be a system of mathematics, this is not generally accepted, and it is more generally regarded as a set of strategies for calculation. These are said to be creative and useful, and can be applied in a number of ways to calculation methods in arithmetic and algebra, most notably within the education system. Some of its methods share similarities with the Trachtenberg system.

Tirthaji claimed that he found the sūtras after years of studying the Vedas, a set of sacred ancient Hindu texts.[2] However, Vedas do not contain any of the "Vedic mathematics" sutras.

The sūtras (formulae or aphorisms)

Vedic mathematics is based on sixteen sūtras which serve as somewhat cryptic instructions for dealing with different mathematical problems. The following list of nineteen (sic) items is said to be the list of sixteen sūtras, translated from Sanskrit into English:

"By one more than the previous one"
"All from 9 and the last from 10"
"Vertically and crosswise (multiplications)"
"Transpose and apply"
"Transpose and adjust (the coefficient)"
"If the Samuccaya is the same (on both sides of the equation, then) that Samuccaya is (equal to) zero"
By the Parāvartya rule
"If one is in ratio, the other one is zero."
"By addition and by subtraction."
By the completion or non-completion (of the square, the cube, the fourth power, etc.)
Differential calculus
By the deficiency
Specific and general
The remainders by the last digit
"The ultimate (binomial) and twice the penultimate (binomial) (equals zero),"
"Only the last terms,"
By one less than the one before
The product of the sum
All the multipliers
[edit]Subsūtras or corollaries
"Proportionately"
"The remainder remains constant"
"The first by the first and the last by the last"
"For 7 the multiplicand is 143"
"By osculation"
"Lessen by the deficiency"
"Whatever the extent of its deficiency, lessen it still further to that very extent; and also set up the square (of the deficiency)"
"By one more than the previous one"
"Last totaling ten"
"The sum of the products"
"By (alternative) elimination and retention (of the highest and lowest powers)"
"By mere observation"
"The product of the sum is the sum of the products"
"On the flag"

PS - This was just a brief introduction about Vedic Maths which was long forgotten by our people, i wish one day we'll have it as part of our School curriculum...

 

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[Chinese-Dragon]

P.S. @Chinese-Dragon You will like the concept of India-China expressed as West-East.

In Ancient China, "The West" was India. Such as in the famous novel Journey to the West.

Also, Ancient India was referred to by us as "Tianzhu" meaning "heavenly-center" due to the Buddhist connection.

Names of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tianzhu (天&#31482 Chinese name for ancient India, translates roughly to "heaven center(of)" (i.e. spiritual center); used especially during the Tang dynasty in reference to the Indian origins of Buddhism.).

Tenjiku (天&#31482 is the Japanese word, which derives from Chinese word Tianzhu(天&#31482 commonly used in reference to pre-modern India. Tian, the root word for the Japanese kanji, means "heaven", while, jiku, means: "the center of", or 'primary concentration of'. The foreign loanwords Indo (イン&#12489 and India (インディ&#12450 are also used in some cases.

This (along with Buddhism) was then passed from China to the other East Asian countries.

 

[Yogi]

According to Indian Mythology the Indian Civilization dates back thousands or even millions of years back but now Archaeological n Scientific evidence proves that India had an Advanced Civilization as early as 12000 BC...

if u r in a hurry at least look at 10:15 to 12 min to see the proof urselves....

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

It is interesting how it was always Ancient China that sent travelers to Ancient India (such as Xuanzang) but rarely the other way around.

We have many loanwords borrowed from Sanskrit (mostly in connection with Buddhism such as 阿修&#32599... but India hardly has any from us. We have many ideologies taken from the Vedas, such as Karma and Reincarnation, but not the other way around?

 

[Yogi]

Here is an interesting Video about what Ancient Indians did for the World...

 

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[Yogi]

People generally think that India only contributed Zero for Mathematics but actually all the mordern numbers we use have originated from India, from India they went to Arabs n from there to Europe n rest of the world thats why they r also known as Arabic numbers but thats just the tip of the Iceberg.

Here is a video about Indian contributions to the world of mathematics n how Indians had discovered various key mathematical theorems like the Pythagoras Theorem centuries before Pythagoras was even born.....