India's greatest gifts to China : Kung Fu and Zen Buddhism

[INDIC]

Chinese copy cats .......

and their fake history.

Chinese major contribution was in spreading the herbal medicine, not the mathematics.

 

[Fattyacids]

Chinese have no major contribution in Algebra. I never said Indians discovered Algebra. Both ancient Greeks and Indians worked on it. Arabs translated the work for Brahmagupta into Arabic along with Greek works and worked on it which was later spread to Europe.

Chinese maths were developed independently, unlike you copying from the Greeks.
Chinese Algebra is called Ceyuan haijing. Learn history of math before you speak.

 

[Ajatashatru]

Chinese maths were developed independently, unlike you copying from the Greeks.
Chinese Algebra is called Ceyuan haijing. Learn history of math before you speak.

Indian mathematics also developed independently. Indians and Europeans came to know about each other's maths because of historic contact b/w them and through transmissions by Arabs.

 

[Sonyuke_Songpaisan]

Black people can never have the IQ to invent those two

Nepal has always been part of Indian civilization. Civilization is how both India and China are referred to as ancient countries. Many rulers dynasties of Nepal have origins from other parts of India. In ancient times, only the region around Kathmandu was called Nepal which did came under the rule of Indian Maurya Empire (if only political boundaries satisfy your definition of a nation). And Nepal was a nominal vassal state under Gupta Empire.

Going by your logic Tibet was never a part of China up until half a century ago.

But unlike the chinese, we never lay claim on everything that came under our influence as our territory. Nepal is an independent country and every Indian respects this fact.

Korea and Vietnam were used to be part of Chinese civilization but China will not claim that their inventions are ours, Maybe it's due to that they have nothing original

 

[Snomannen]

Sometime you gonna admit, "Korean" are everywhere.

(Chinese people will know what it means)

 

[JohnyBoy]

India had very little to offer before we Muslims and Chinese arrived in India and let them know that there exist a outside world.

Oh So Muslim is a race now??...And What do you mean by "we muslims arrived in India"?? Are u saying that your ancestors were Arabs?? That's a Bengladeshi flag by the way...Make up your mind bro...

 

[William Hung]

This "indian gift" claim is one of the biggest exaggeration in Asian history, mostly seen in popular media.

It is true that Buddhism arrived from "India". But Buddhism was created by a relatively small group of religious/philosophical people whose beliefs wasn't even widely accepted in their own homeland. Plus, only a few individuals and group decided to bring their beliefs to China so stop acting like Buddhism is some kind of "gift" from india.

Buddhism is not that influential in Chinese society and history, Confucianism is. Buddhism may have some large group followers and even a few emperors were Buddhist, but the Buddhist teaching doesn't significantly shape Chinese history like how Christianity did to Medieval Europe. If Indian member disagree then give me an example how it did.

The claim about Boddhidarma being the creator of Shaolin Kung Fu is also a big exaggeration and probably a myth. It is only claimed in legend and in popular media and serious scholarship work don't consider it legitimate. First, if you indian hindus actually know something about buddhism and kung fu, you will know that some central concept like qi/chi in shaolin kung fu is not even compatible with mahayana buddhism (including chan, huayan or other chinese buddhism). It is more of a Daoist concept.

Secondly, the people in China managed to organize huge and potent armies before even the qin dynasty which is before any indian monks arrived in China. They already know how to train martial art including weapons and hand to hand combat. So how the hell did an indian monk became the creator of chinese martial arts in the 6th century AD? If anything, those "shaolin" monks already have learnt indigenous chinese martial arts, then incoporate some exercise and breathing technique from Boddhidharma and further add some bullcrap into it. "Shaolin" kung fu itself is mostly a product of myth and legend. There are many other chinese martial arts other than "shaolin" kung fu, even before Boddhidarma was even born.

You won't find the "Boddhidarma the creator of shaolin kung fu" myth in serious scholar work, only in popular media like internet forums.

 

[Karasonmuno]

Most Indians historically viewed the Buddha like most Jews viewed Jesus, a strange outcast with a fringe cult following. As I said, Buddhism has become little more than a political tool for the Indian government.