[Assam] Bamiyan Statue & ATAN BURAGOHAIN SAKO

Thu Jun 29 08:31:57 PDT 2006

Hi Ram:

Looks like you are very allergic to invading influences too :-).

Unfortunately it it is too late to try and alter history, pathetic 
text-book revising not-withstanding. Trying to deny it is futile. Get 
used to it would be my recommendation.

Indian architecture, as the world knows it, is not represented by 
Meenakshi temple. Nor by the other great temples, which are 
architectural sculptures.
But the Buddhist era structures are far better examples of 
ARCHITECTURE, that created SPACE. Hindu temple architecture never 
created SPACE, the singular test of what is architecture and what is 
not. Not to downplay the craftsmanship and carving skills -- it is 
remarkable. As was the genius of engineering in moving all that rock. 
But still, architecture strictly it ain't.

Indian music, again as the world knows it, is a fusion of what 
developed indigenously and what was brought by them invaders. There 
won't be any sitar, or sarod, or Bollywood music without it. Again 
not to deny or downplay Carnatic forms or Oxomiya bihu-geet, but that 
is not what 'Indian music' as the world knows it, is.

Tenga anza, alu-pitika with mitha tel, poita bhaat with pwra goroi 
maas, dosa, sambar and idli are wonderful. But Indian cuisine, as the 
world knows it, and modern Indians savor it, are not made up of all 
those things.

Manipuri dance, Xottriya naas, Oddissi, Bharatnatyam too are 
wonderful. But Bollywood dancing won't be anything without them 
invaders' decadent influences.

There now! Get used to it Ram. Tending a slow burning fire of denial 
should be left to the zealots :-).

c-da

At 9:01 AM -0500 6/29/06, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
>  >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.
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>C'da,
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>NOTHING! Wow! Even its cuisine and music? How about art forms like 
>Bharatanatyam, Oddissi, Manipuri dances or music like Carnatic 
>music, or even our own Bihu songs etc.
>As for cuisine - How about dosas, idlis, mas or tenga anjas etc.
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>About architecture (we discussed this before) - I find the Taj and 
>structures like the Meenakshi temple (Madurai) equally fasinating, 
>but am not sure how a structure like the Meenakshi temple could be 
>improved upon by the Taj?
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>All influenced by them invaders? Methinks India ought to be invaded 
>more and more frequently by these great 'thinkers and movers'.
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>Ram
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>On 6/29/06, Chan Mahanta 
><<mailto:cmahanta at charter.net>cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
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>  >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 !
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>Thanks for the recognition of my humble contribution to Oxomiya 
>civilization. Yet another feather on my jaapi that I shall proudly 
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>At 2:04 AM -0400 6/29/06, Himendra Thakur wrote:
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>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 !
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>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?
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>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. 
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.   
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>With the best wishes,
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>Himendra
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