[Assam] Bamiyan Statue & ATAN BURAGOHAIN SAKO

[Chan Mahanta]

>Demolishing of Bamiyan Buddha in Afghanistan on 
>March 11, 2001, a precursor  of 911, is a 
>well-known tradition of >Islamic supporters. Mr. 
>Chandan Mahanta demolished the ATAN BURAGOHAIN 
>SAKO even "before" it was built !



Thanks for the recognition of my humble 
contribution to Oxomiya civilization. Yet another 
feather on my jaapi that I shall proudly wear :-).


BTW, Indian architecture ( like its music or its 
cuisine) would be NOTHING without the 
contributions of them Islamic invaders. Just 
thought I would remind people, lest the Hinduttwa 
induced amnesia takes over.













At 2:04 AM -0400 6/29/06, Himendra Thakur wrote:
>Dear Rajen,
>
>Demolishing of Bamiyan Buddha in Afghanistan on 
>March 11, 2001, a precursor  of 911, is a 
>well-known tradition of Islamic supporters. Mr. 
>Chandan Mahanta demolished the ATAN BURAGOHAIN 
>SAKO even "before" it was built !
>
>Has anybody any record as to how many Buddhist, 
>Jain, Hindu and Jewish Temples and Christian 
>Churches were demolished by supporters of Islam 
>throughout history?
>
>As for Nehru's question "What Happened to 
>Buddhism in India?" --- my answer is "Buddhism 
>is there is India." Nehru had to "discover" 
>India. He was never with India. In his process 
>of discovering India, he missed a great deal of 
>things, including the Advaita Philosophy. Pandit 
>Jawaharlal Nehru proudly recorded in 1945 that 
>he did not understand Advaita, probably to 
>glorify his socialistic style which was rather 
>an erroneous tunnel view of Marxism. Nehru went 
>on using “monism” to mean Advaita to the last 
>day of his life, whereas Advaita, with its "tena 
>tyaktena bhunjeethah" was the highest form of 
>socialism and Marxism. 
>
>Throughout his life, Nehru proved himself to be 
>a very light minded individual. When Gopinath 
>Bordoloi opposed the Cabinet Mission proposal 
>where Assam was grouped in a pre-pakistani 
>grouping, Nehru retorted "Assam must sacrifice 
>for the greater cause of India." There are many 
>more instances of Nehru's light talks. One was 
>"thora kuch de do" to his cousin Teja.
>
>Simple folks of India worship Buddha as an 
>Avatar of Vishnu; they follow Buddha's teaching 
>of love --- the simple folks of India do not 
>reject anything --- a highest form of human 
>wisdom --- a trait that was not seen by 
>superficial cursory observers like Nehru.
>
>As for "As you know Buddhism is the only thing 
>which China imported from outside, and China 
>still has a inner resentment that 
>India dominated her mind for 2000 years through 
>Buddhism",  I must point out that Taoism of 
>China [ Lao-Tse (604-531 BCE)]  is as old as 
>Buddhism [ Buddha 536 -483  BCE]. The words like 
>"resentment" "dominated" "imported from outside" 
>are extremely mundane in Taoism, which is 
>Advaita.   
>
>With the best wishes,
>Himendra
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