Longyan, a city in western Fujian, is home to two temples: Fayun Temple built in the late Song Dynasty and Lingzhi Temple, which offers sacrifices to Kwan-yin, the mercy Buddha. The city’s history dates back to 736 AD when the Tang Dynasty established the prefecture of Tingzhou in western Fujian. Longyan is known for its beautiful natural scenery, mysterious Hakka earthen buildings, and the glorious red culture of Gutian.
Longyan is also home to abundant tourist resources, including the Earth Towers in Yongding, Mount Guanzhi in Liancheng, Mount Tiangong, and folk houses in Peitian. The famous Longmen Caves, one of the three most famous grottoes in China, is a must-see when visiting Luoyang for the first time.
The temple rituals and records in Longyan, China, provide insight into today’s changing global economy. Immigrant remittances are reshaping religious practices in Longyan, as they influence the worship of specific deities. The design of the Chinese place of worship displays characteristics of the ancient Chinese tradition of ritual sacrifice to heaven.
In addition to participating in communal rites on important annual ceremonies, the design of the Chinese place of worship displays some of the characteristics of the ancient Chinese tradition of ritual sacrifice to heaven. A book-length study on ritual services, folksong groups, and gender politics among Hakka women in Meizhou, Guangdong, is Xu Xiaoying’s Gechang yu jingshen.
Renovation of temples and houses in Longyan prioritizes temples over houses, with temple renovations taking priority over house renovations. This chapter examines demonic warfare during the Yuan dynasty by focusing on Daoist exorcistic, martial rituals and their relation to the format.
📹 Longtan Tulou: Hakka and the “Taiwan Issue”
The story of a group of Hakka in Taiwan visiting their ancestral house – a Hakka Tulou. The brief background of the current Taiwan …
📹 Ancient Chinese Monk Describes Ancient India // 4th century Faxian // Primary Source
The journey of Faxian is one of the most incredible in human history. By foot, he traveled from his home in central China to the far …
It’s a bit ironic to drink from the stream and forget where it comes from. It’s really cool how they were able to form the Yin and Yang formation. It seems to be a very auspicious place, I think had they had someone to continue living the family would have prospered. The royal family, and ancestor worshipping can’t wait for that!
Lu Hsiang Lien can honor the heritage from her ancestors, but she can also be proud of her Taiwanese nationality. The two things can be true at the same time. Culture and nationality are not mutually exclusive. One nation can be inclusive of multiple cultures, or one culture can have immigrants end up in many nations.
I don’t know much about India, but one of gold liked treasure and wisdom from India brought to China over one thousand yrs ago, and later had widely spread to rest of the world in 21st century is the ” Prajna Paramita hindayana sutram ” I though the Sanskrit version is gold although only through the translation meanings of it. I want to express my deep appreciation to India civilization for such a gift of this sutram ! 🙏🙏🙏
6:47 “Every year on the 8th day in the 2nd month, they celebrate a procession of images” I believe this is a description of Shiva Ratri (the night of Shiva) Faxian is likely using the Chinese calendar when speaking to his Chinese audience. The equivalent day on the Hindu calendar would be the 8th day of the bright fortnight in the month of Phalguni. This is five days before Shiva Ratri, one of the largest Hindu festivals. It may be processions of the various deities of Pataliputra began in the week leading up to the festival. Faxian further describes continuous overnight worship at 7:35. He describes this as happening all throughout India, which it still does to this day on Shiva Ratri.
While in Pataliputra, Fa Xian observed a festival during which the people built gigantic four-wheel wagons and then built towers on them that were five storeys high. They then covered the towers in fine white linen and decorated them with canopies of embroidered silk. He says that the people placed idols of their gods within these structures and images of the Buddha on the corners of the wagons. On the day of the festival, twenty such wagons would be pulled through the city in a grand procession. Devotees from everywhere, ranging from the royal family to the poor, were part of the festivities. They offered prayers and flowers to the gods and lit lamps in the evening. The whole city became like a fair ground with amusements and games. On this day, the rich made generous donations to the poor and physicians even held free health clinics for them. This shows how the marxists made up fake enmity between Buddhists and Sanatana Dharmiks.
There is a travel log named 往五天竺國傳, written by a Korean Buddhist Monk who travel to Inida in year 723 – 727/728 CE. He never return back to Korea, and spent his last years in China. but the book was rediscovered in early 20th Century. according to this travel log, Buddism was already more or less disappeared in India by his time.
In fact, Chinese writing has been used for thousands of years due to the preservation of Chinese culture. Many Chinese records of other countries can be found in ancient Chinese books. The closer you are to China, the more detailed the records will be, this is very useful for studying the history of other countries
Mauryan and Gupta period were Golden period in indian history. Ofcourse there were many great kingdoms but under these two kingdoms India or Bharat flourished in every dimensions. Mauryan King Chandragupta Maurya left everything including his kingdom and became a monk under Jainism. His grandson Ashoka became Buddhist and spread Buddhism to China, Korea, South East Asia and Greece.
About onions… Onions and garlic are not considered “satvic” food along with non vegeterian food alcohol etc.., means these foods are not helpful in attaining spritual enhancement and moksha/nirvana.. The ultimate spritual state in hinduism, jainism and buddhism.. Even present day many temples don’t cook food containing these,also some hingher caste brhamanas in india dont take those, also jains.
Faxian took his very rare heroic ordeal journey, and he is a very superb travelogue of all time. Even the national museums throughout India have taken a lot of passages from his written records as the inscribes of archeological objects. I always revere him with heart. Thanks for your interesting article clip.
India was at its golden age. Then came ISLAM from the desert, and they destroyed everything from the mentioned libraries to the culture itself to an extent. Finally the nail to the coffin came in the form of British, and the flourishing indian culture was reduced to mere poverty. India is recovering now, let it reach her former glory and spread the message of peace once more as she did in the ancient times.
These 4th-century accounts, similar to those of Huen Tsang who traveled to India in the 7th century, give a vivid picture of India before Islamic invasions. A prosperous country, with the bounty of nature, an organized system of government in individual kingdoms, and religious harmony. Alas! It didn’t last.
Watch RAMAYAN and MAHABHARAT just to get a glimpse of Royalty, Greatness, Sacrifices, Dharma, Richness, Rules, Duties, Culture, Traditions, Customs of INDIA🇮🇳 . 1 warrior could destroy earth completely with 1 single arrow, if I speak of power. 1 Man could sacrifice any of his things, even life for others. 1 Man could happily fight even God and die just to keep his small promise. . till now you only know 330 million gods and goddesses and Caste system. Am I right??😁 . India history is greater than Anything.
Why is nobody talking about 6:03 where he mentions that the massive yet beautiful” Royal Palaces and intricate art work in the massive hall ways across the various cities were created / made BY SPIRITS which were employed / controlled by these mighty kings . These SPIRITS piled up and lifted the stones which weighed anywhere from 1 ton to 50 sometimes even 100 tons with ease and also created beautiful artwork and sculptures which are impossible even today with means of all the technology at our disposal we still cannot carve hard rocks and stones into beautiful sculptures that one sees in the temples of Khajuraho, Ajanta Ellora or the maasive sky high temples of the south. There was some kind of alien technology being used here and the monks called them “SPIRITS” which these mighty hindu kings had but sadly all that has been destroyed by the Mughals earlier & whatever was left the British Empire destroyed it. No wonder neither the Mughals nor the British structures have any kind of intricate and highly detailed sculptures in any of their monuments the likes of which are seen in these Indian palaces & temples even today. Even the Taj Mahal considered to be one of the 8th wonders of the world Does Not have a single detailed sculpture and pales in comparison to the thousands of hindu temples across the length and breadth of India. Look at the Dilwara Temples, Khajuraho, temples in the north & south. The Mughals could never understand / master / achieve those technologies or control them so they destroyed them and the rest what was left of the mightiest and richest nation in the world was pillaged and plundered by the British EAST INDIA CO & Royals for more than 200 years.
Hi, thank you for your excellent articles! Could you also make a article on the Nalanda University of Ancient India? Scholars from China, Korea, Japan, and Central Asia were also students here. The biography of Xuanzang is one of the sources that could be used. Also of other ancient universities in various countries having international students.
(Bharathiya subcontinent) akhand bharat As a Maharashtrian I am proud that we defeated other Invaders of foreign powers and I know that foreign culture is mixed with Indian culture and that’s the truth we accept but still it’s all about North India as a Maharashtrian we know our roots and culture South Indians protected our main root culture .
Even by 90’s one wont find a person to pull down a living tree and that was the level of understanding of the population for other lives. They knew the role of all living kinds in the system and their nature, and only so had great respect, love and devotion for them. After arrival of western occupiers whom had thought to bring down the great nation by any cost, started to replace their education system, encourage practices that were against the ethics of the land and only had dumps (kanganis) with them to run the administration. Only so we got to see all the mess today and till date the nation could not replace those false people. For any normal indian a days start with a custom to perform and ends by same way, one and every aspect of life were systemized. Cleaning of house and bathing is a must to start a day and the nation still practises it though shadowed by self-destructive modern lifestyle pushed in phased manner into their life. A traveller, stranger from any distance part of the nation or foreign land would be received well and treated by a set of acts that could be seen elsewhere in the nation. The villages from north to south, east to west were present as same. International trade was a prominent activity and there were select communities assigned the job and so only got to see in from north americas, africas to south east asia, cloths, cuisines, business and trade practices, linguistics elements that could be traced back to india. India believed and believe in the fact that the whole world is a one big family.
small correction : the original source doesn’t have the word untouchable in them, You have to remember that at that time the kingdoms was Jain/Buddist who would avoid onion,garlic and meat which was the reason it was not kept in the market .Chandalas were allowed to become priest if they converted which means they gave away their meat eating habits . Which again says that Indian at that time didnt have a rigid caste system .
In India, we read Faxian as Fa- Hein. Thank you for writing our history as he saw it, most of Indian old world Universities and Temples were burnt alive by Izlamic invaders hence burned 5000 years of our history, science and medicine books. We are now rising from ashes of old invading ruins and claiming our place back, soon it will happen. AGAIN
India and china, the two most populous nations in the world even though culturally way apart always had respect to each other. History does not have a single trace of mutual invasions but there is abundant history of cultural exchanges. Then why are we fighting now? It’s time for Indians and chinese to sit and think about this.
Our century will be known for having amazing technology that did absolutely nothing. The world was explored & space was within reach & we just kinda gave up. The “inward” century where due to lack of growth & expansion we nearly destroyed ourselves. I think this century proves that if humanity does not continue to explore and grow and feed its curiosity naturally then we will turn upon ourselves politically.
सोचने की बात है की हमारा सनातन कितना महान था, जैन, बुद्ध, सिख जैसे बहुत ही प्यारे धर्म को पोषण दिया ❤ हमारे अंग है ये सभी धर्म, ये बात हजारों साल पुरानी है और ये इतनी दिव्य बात है, की आज भी कई ऐसे Cult है जहां लोग दूसरा मार्ग (धर्म) तो छोड़ो खुद के धर्म पर सवाल नही कर सकते कर तन से जुदा हो जाता है ❤❤❤❤ हमे सनातन और आपने सभी धर्मो पर गर्व है ❤❤❤❤ आक्रांताओं और नेताओं के फेले गए साउथ नॉर्थ, रंग रूप, बोल चाल, जात पात, ऊंच नीच, को कोई सराहना नही ये एक नीच चीज़े है इन्हे जड़ से समाप्त करना अत्यंत आवश्यक है
Ancient India was the greatest and richest territory. Martial arts were originated from india, buddhism was found in india, chess was originated from ancient india. But when the britishers arrived they destroyed their ancient scripts which stores most of thier history and glory. They destroyed their culture and ancient sculptures. They banned nearly every martial art that was originated. They exploited india. The ancient india was one of the wealthiest countries before the Britishers arrived. They built the railways, roads and improved the administration but they gave india poverty and destroyed its history. India would have been one the greatest power in the world . The only reason india was enslaved because thier was no unity in the people of ancient india towards their country till 1900’s.
Kindly. Add subtitles to the each articles. The reason is because, the specific historic words used in Sanskrit language are not known by majority of people.. To make a complete sense, giving the real meaning of the words, their spellings. Pronouncing, will do the wonders. Thank you. Looking forward to it.
Are you sure it was the Gobi Desert and not the Taklamakan that Faxian crossed? Starting from central China, he would have had to walk north to enter the Gobi. Walking west, which I presume would have been the path taken, he would have crossed the Taklamakan. I find it very interesting that he entered India from the west and not the east. I’m not disputing it because he mentions crossing the Indus river, yet that route was the very long way to go – Buddhism arose in the eastern part of ancient India. Also interesting is there’s no mention of Hinduism. I get he was there on a pilgrimage and to obtain Buddhist texts, yet Buddhism was a minority religion.
I’ve got one for you Late Roman historian from Roman Hispania living during the time of the fall of the Roman Empire talks about how the Roman Empire is falling apart and describes the how the Goths have crossed the Pyrenees and the what they do how they look and live what they wear (weasel skins) and how they battle with the Suebie and how they live with Hispano-Romans. I think theres a similar one also but with this historian is in Gaul and it is a Gaulo-Roman perspective during the Frank invasion….
It’s highly unlikely Faxian crossed the Gobi desert. The Gobi is at the northern edge of China and therefore could easily be bypassed. The desert between China and India here is probably the Takla Makan desert northwest of the Tibetan Plateau. Crossing this desert would have been unavoidable because it blocked the only feasible route into India from China back in the day: around the Himalayas through the Khyber Pass in Northern Afghanistan as the Himalayas were virtually unpassable then. It’s mentioned elsewhere that Faxian entered India from the northwest.
Great article :), thank you for making it. If I may add, as has probably already been mentioned but; Vaishyas are one of three “upper castes” in general in India, in general. They correspond to “merchants” roughly speaking. Others of said 3 are “Kshatriya” who are administrators and or soldiers, and Brahmin who are in general priests and or monks in a sense. This comprises about ~15% of society, the other 85% are mostly the “shudra” who are sort of crafts-people and laborers. Also a small portion of society is the “Chandals” which are “outsiders” and or who can be these sort of sub-groups of workers who work with dead bodies, and tissues of dead things in general, in cleaning, etc. Also, foreigners are also sort of “outsiders” in some regards perhaps.
Sad that fellow Indians here are blaming Mughals and Britishers for the downfall . This mentality of ours will never let us prosper, instead of doing a post mortem on history and glories/sufferings of the past we should look ahead and try to improve ourselves. People here don’t care about cleanliness, rules and ofcourse other people . If we improve ourselves, the country will become a positive place to live in . Religion doesn’t matter here nor do we want any “political party” to teach us how we live our lives.
History buffs & students: contrast Faxian & Huen Tsang’s travelogues of ancient India with later Arab traveller Ibn Batuta to understand the destruction wrought by the waves upon waves of Islamic marauders. India bore the brunt of the Islamic conquest Eastward saving China like a breakwater against the Islamic tsunami.
A nation that can uphold the true value of Buddhism can be the most open minded and peaceful nation. However that nation will also be vulnerable to invasion from other violent groups and thus can’t survive. Because we humans aren’t capable of proper goodness… maybe we will be in future, far future.
Buddhism and jainism were the best thing happened to India. But It made us so peaceful like no killing, no fighting, they built more universities and schools like vedic tradition which made us too peaceful as a country in 400-700 AD that we lost fighting skills and materialism in a realm of attainment of mukti and hence we were not able to protect our land when Invaders came. Hence, imbalance b/w peace and power made us lose everything…….We needed balance of power and harmony I.E. the way of life in which we have a powerful army and people of fighter spirit,also people of educational spirit and further other works………..
After the Buddhist teachings spread across across the subcontinent, India indeed became the most humane place on earth. When Emperor Ashoka conquered the almost all of the subcontinent, he accepted the teachings of Buddha. He build hospitals not only for humans but also for animals. We have plenty of evidences for this in ancient Buddhist and Hindu text. Also Ashoka’s ‘Shilalekhas’ (they r the written inscriptions on huge stones ordered by Ashoka) were found in last century telling more about his rule.
Personal opinion. Western people took from us only material wealth, ( which is of very less importance ) they did not attempt to destroy our culture, most of them appreciated it. But it is Muslim invaders like gajini (who invaded India 17 times ) Gori who came and mutilated our temples, burnt our knowledge institutions like Nalanda and takshashila. Even in modern times you can see masjids built on many temples (Jami Masjid, Karimud-Din Ki Masjid, Chota Masjid). What kind of people they are, what kind of religion it is that teaches them to thrive on others efforts, what kind of religion it is that teaches them to not recognise the greatness of other men. In Hinduism we have the right to questions like, who are we, what is that we see, what is the nature of existence of self and the nature it self,whether men created god or god created men and we are encouraged to go on in seeking answer to these kind of questions and record them. ( Soo much of knowledge obtained through such ventures was destroyed in Nalanda). But people who follow islam don’t have the freedom ask ask questions, since it is mentioned in islam you should follow it without question, one don’t have the right to question in their religion. I think Islamic rulers framed quran to establish control over the people, to contain and lock in the free spirit of men in a very narrow compartment so they can be ruled easily.
Hinduism = Science Hinduism is an Atheism and a theism at the same time How? “Long story short ” Universe (Brahmand) consists of 4 things 1. Param atma (Energy) 2. Param tatva (Matter) 3. Maha kal (Time ) 4. Kal (Black space) (Today modern Science says Space and Time are not different they are different attribute of 1 thing and Hindus use 1 word “Kal”) 1. Param Atma 2. Param tatva Both are Param (Supreme) Hence equal Atma = Tatva Energy = Matter E = M E = MC^2 (After Solar formation) Both can not be created nor destroyed only translated ( or incarnated) into another form (or body ) Both are Trinity Energy has trinity aspect 1. Creation +ve 2. Preservaton = 3. Destruction -ve Matter has trinity aspect 1. Proton +ve 2. Neutron = 3. Electron -ve Hindus personified it as Brahma +ve Vishnu = Shiva -ve Since Energy and matter are two 2 types of worship 1. Meditation (Yog-atma se param atma ) 2. Idol worshipping (Param tatva) Why idol worshipping? Hindus do the same rituals on the purchase of car bike house TV AC etc which we do before idols Bcoz A car can be moulded into an Idol of Natraja But no change in the composition of the proton neutron electron Functions of Param tatva 1. Proton and neutron are always connected form Nucleous Brahma and Vishnu are also always connected through navel cord (Nabhi) Nucleous Hindi name is also “Nabhi” 2. Electrons always revolve in its ring Depicted as Shiva’s dance in the ring of fire Functions of Param Atma 2. Preservation Vishnu the personification of preservative aspect of the Universe energy Or Simply Vishnu the preserver 1st avatar of Vishnu was Fish 🐠 2nd Avatar of Vishnu was Turtle 🐢 Now in last 150 years Science said the same how life evolved and preservered on Earth 1.
The Ancient people of India followed Sanatana Dharma, which was based on the Vedas and Upanishads. Hinduism is a branch of it, where the followers practice dol worship and the concept of building large temples for worshipping. During the vedic times, before birth of Buddha, there were no large temples only small places where the Rishis performed Yagna. Some of them worshipped the elements and planets, some rishis were self aware and hence were not required to worship any deity or God. They practiced Yoga or meditation or both. Many Enlightened beings were born in this tradition like Mahavira, Buddha, Padmasambhava, Babaji etc. These were the ones who were at the 6th level of consciousness or God mode. The idol worshippers and blind followers of any religion are in the first level of consciousness. When you become more aware of yourself and free from the dogmas of the society and organised religion, you enter the second level. As you go up the levels you will be able to carve your own path and bring out a change in the society.. The core concepts of Vedas, Upanishads and Purana are so vast and difficult for an ordinary man to understand, hence the Bhagavad Gita and later Shiva Purana were compiled in later years to give a brief idea of some key vedic knowledge which was able to be easily understood by a normal person. Ramayana and Mahabharata are Narratives to give people an idea of Dharma and teach them where their bad habits, ego and stupidity can lead them. Until now the origin of Sanatana Dharma is not certain especially when recently German Archaeologists have found a Vedic temple dated 10000 BC in Turkey, the depicts of Yantra in India dated between 11000-10000 BC and Baghor stone which looks similar to Yantra dated between 25000 and 20000 BC.
Report of Megasthenes (4th century before J Lucifer–Ed.) : “Megasthenes noted the absence of slavery in India, the chastity of woman, and the courage of the men. They required no locks to their doors. ABOVE ALL NO INDIAN WAS EVER KNOWN TO TELL A LIE. Sober and industrious, good farmers and skillful artisans, they scarcely ever had recourse to lawsuit and lived PEACABLY under their native chiefs … Megasthenes mentions that India was divided into 118 kingdoms” (W.W.Hunter, The Indian empire, p.217)
Well only we Jains don’t eat garlic and onion rest all eat Our God (Mahavir Jain)came nearly 100yrs before Buddha born as Siddharth in Nepal They were all in same Yoni named as SURYAVANSHI(sun clan or sun descendent or followers of Sun ) or Ikshvaku I too have Buddha statue in my home,but I don’t consider him as Prime god or deity In India there is Polytheism,many of my friends have Buddha statue in their homes and only a few consider him as prime God rest all as secondary one Oldest city in India is 10000 yrs First one to get genocided were people of my own community Who knows the truth of this world better than us, specially reality of those claiming themselves to be peaceful Answer- No one Time and karma will change everything,let them brainwash til then,let them enjoy till then
There seems to be alot of people here feeling nostalgic for the pre-islamic days of south asia. And while that is understandable we should remeber that islam is nothing more then a belief structure. The rate of atheism and disbelievers is rising throughout south asia and eventually islam will become irrelevant. The same way Christiananity declined in Europe.
Being Buddhist he had a fairly pleasant experience. Buddhism doesn’t promote government bureaucracy so the people had freedom and prosperity. Hinduism does establish hierarchies and classes. In Afghan Buddhism had established itself more and this allowed Muslims to run rampant through the country. Where once there were millions now there is none. When the Muslims encountered India they had more resistance because of the Hindus had some government organization to form armies. But still Muslims quickly dominated the believers who think this world is an illusion.
Ancient world followed Sanaatan dharma. The way of living was Hindu for peace and prosperity. India then known as Aryavarta gave birth to Jain dharma, Bhuddha dharma, Sikh dharma etc., still way of living was Hindu. Culture and civilization, education, astronomy, astrology etc., flourished. People lived with peace and prosperity.
Time will once again change in favor of India. Let the others enjoy what they have now there are many silent powers in India working for future of India. If rest of the world thinks we won’t come on top again then they are the ones living in ignorance and let them live like that after all, ignorance is a bliss.
Did Acharya Nagarjuna divided the Buddha Dhamma? “Buddhism has changed accordingbto the prevalent conditions. Shunya-Vaad (nothing-ness) is one of the transitions that is evident during the time of Acharya Nagarjuna as it was rapidly propagated although Buddha has himself explained Shunya-vaad at many places in Tripitaka. However, the reason being that Nagarjuna is considered a Mahayaani, people have a misconception that Shoonya-vaad is not included anywhere in the Tripitaka or in the teachings of Buddha. Acharya Nagarjuna expanded the theory of Shunya-ism to a great extent and for this contribution, he is greatly revered and studied not only in India but also in China, Tibet, Srilanka, Nepal and Burma. It is not adequate to assert that Acharya Nagarjuna has separated Buddhism. There is a strong view that alot of unnecessary, distractive mis-information is imposed upon Tripitaka. And by passing eras, buddhists have separated the impurities that go incongruant with the scientific researches of Buddhism. Nagarjuna was not only a great philosopher but also a talented doctor of medicines. In Sheerpur, near Raipur in state of Chhatisgarh, the ancient ruins are considered the place where Nagarjuna had an enormous medicine laboratory. The whole passage from Andhra Pradesh to Chhota Nagpur and from there to Bihar is recognized as the land influenced by Acharya Nagarjuna. The not so famous museum in Sheerpur contains a large number of herb grinding rock slates and instruments which are excavated near the Buddhist monestery near Raipur.
For all those feeling excited at how amazing and utopian “Ancient India” was, let me remind you that this was a very specific period of Buddhist spread (not even) after Ashoka in a relative small area that the monk travelled in. India is bigger than the Mauryan Empire, let alone a tiny kingdom/city/state under it; India’s history is not just 20 years, but spans thousands of years in either direction; It is a diverse land of many languages, cultures, customs with complex social structured intertwined with many different religions and as many subdivisions/sects in each of those religion; Not to forget is the fact that this is an account by a foreigner, so take into account his own bias, the hospitality bias of his hosts, and the fact that he did probably not see or understand what was directly in front of him. Generalising Faxian’s romanticised accounts of 4th century Pataliputra and applying it to the whole of “Ancient India” or even beyond the 4th century is like visiting Ancient Athens and then proclaiming that the whole of Europe is a utopia… meanwhile in reality the city state of Sparta – just 150 km away – is already quite different in many aspects. Now add to that the Iberians, Celts, Germanic Tribes (Saxons, Angles, Goths, Franks), Slavs, Finns, Armenians, Persians, North African Berbers etc. and everything else that comes shortly later: Romans, Seleucids, Thrace, Scythians, Jewish Judea etc…. and you get the point. It’s an Asterix & Obelix comic and Pataliputra is a Gaulish village.
It’s a shame that India and China aren’t close nowadays. We had a slight scuffle last century and as a result Millenias worth of friendship, respect, shared culture and global rule down the drain. I hope one day we both realise we have a common enemy that is responsible for the downfall of our mighty civilisations and work together in coordination for the rise of both of our nations.
The kungfu monk of Shaolin Temple in Chinese history is called “monk soldiers 僧兵”. It is composed of some soldiers, Rogue, robbers, gangsters. Farmers (shaved their heads). They can drink alcohol, eat meat and prostitutes. They have a lot of land and property (prizes presented by the emperor). The living expenses of Shaolin Temple are provided by the Chinese royal . The main work of Shaolin Temple Kung Fu monks is “killing” (similar to ancient killer organizations). Help the emperor to retreat the rebels. Fight for the throne. He has participated in many wars as soldiers. He has repeatedly repelled Japanese pirate invasion. The method of learning kung fu in Shaolin Temple is very “hard硬” (Contrary to soft) like the ancient Chinese soldiers training. It is combined with various different kung fu. You will find that Shaolin Temple Kung Fu skills are specifically used for killing and warfare. Historically, Shaolin monk uses monks to observe folk activities and collect information. Accepting the Chinese emperor’s instructions to eliminate many people who have engaged in anti -government in the people. They also often participate in war to become part of the soldiers. (Chinese Kung Fu is a lot of projects. Combined with Chinese medical skills. Chinese cities that originated in different regions. There are qigong. There are attacks. There are women. There are defensive. There are various weapons.) Although the ancient Shaolin Temple was a gangster group. It was controlled by the official China. In fact, in ancient China, the government destroyed Buddhism many times, but was unsuccessful because Buddhists went underground and were difficult to eradicate. —————- ——————- This is a fake story created by monks in Shaolin Temple in ancient times (the same as Disney princess stories). It was the reason why the Chinese war environment at that time. This is to cover up the identity of the “Shaolin Temple monk “as a secret soldier (including the kung fu master recruited in various regions, gangsters, thieves …). From the outside, their image is the same as other Buddhist monks. This is to prevent civilians from suspecting that they are “fake Buddhist monks”. Fake story In China’s regular history and trusted history, it has never mentioned that “Dharma達摩” understands any martial arts. Only in fake stories compiled by some monks in Shaolin Temple (not listed as regular history). In Chinese history. The “Dharma達摩” itinerary is unknown and unreasonable. The difference between more than 400 years before and after. In history, the “Dharma達摩” itinerary is very different from the schedule of the Shaolin Temple. It is more than 1,000 years after “Dharma death”. The content of Shaolin Temple’s compilation of “Dharma Story” is very unreasonable. The credibility is extremely low. * Because the real Chinese Buddhist is harmless (otherwise the Chinese emperor will not let Buddhism exist). calmness, no desire and rationality. They do not participate in any worldly things (but they must obey the emperor’s instructions like civilians). It is impossible to practice any kung fu. The Chinese emperor is not allowed to have any aggressive religion exist in China.
First religion hindu, first medical book( ayurveda),mother of all languages( sanskrit), first fighting style(kalaripayattu), kungfu and karate was originated in india, science and architecture that was well developed before Europeans but still after giving all knowledge to world we are still not respected by foreigners. What they brag about is the poor india with slums and illiteracy.
asia was known for education and development, science and medical when india and china were super powers, europe was known for racism, bloodshed, wars, colonization when europeans and present day america was and is super power, who do you think can lead world better as india and china seems to reclaiming throne being 2 fastest growing nations?