GSS&H: This is a scholarly blog. Here, substantial efforts will be put in so that we can honor the ignored scholars & humanitarians of India. In other words, scruplous steps will be taken to dust off the truth's that are deliberately burried by the Indian Media, politicians, wested interests who with enormous ignorance discriminated the nobel humans. This blog will reach the roots and find out who's who is a great scholar in India. Aimed to empower the future Indians with right knowledge.
SAVI Savarkar's art work is full of life, an insightful and thoughtful expression of Dalits by a Dalit himself.
He is the rarest of young talents from India whose art work can't be matched by yet another upcoming artists of India. It all sounds and looks like this is the beginning of his art work, if the beginning has so much of extraordinary display to offer to us, the future contributions and creativity of Savi is something his art speaks for itself.
Savi Savarkar is GSS&H'sThe artist & Great Scholar of the month of Dec 2008. Let us congradulate and support Savi's work.
Two topics in this blog got some attention recently. 1. Scholar of the Month, Gajendiran Ayya, some of my Tamil Nadu Dalit Bro, raised questions as to Gajendiran's role if at all in helping dalits? (Seriously Questionable) If he even qualifies to be a Scholar, is another questionable attributes. Since it has become clear from recent conversation with Sakyan brothers, I am removing Gajendiran from Scholar of the month?.
2. About King Ravana, is it real or myth, is he realy a Buddhist or not?. Needs to be updated, I will work on it later....!
3.As far as to write about Jayarava Rave as a "Scholar of the Month, is under scrutiny and questionable...?
4. Un Announcement of Caste System as human rights violation?.
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WESTERN BUDDHISTS TO LEARN FROM AMERICAN JEWS By PPLakshmanJi
I read with great interest "A Challenge to Buddhism" by Ven.Bhikkhu Bodhi that I was fortunate to read on the internet.
We all know and revere Bhikkhu Bodhi. His talks and writings are always inspiring and provocative. His distress evident in the above-mentioned article will be shared by all those who read it.
Of late we have been hearing a lot about the expression "Engaged Buddhism". I find the expression mostly among the Mahayanists rather than among the Therawadis in the Western world. Mahayanists also use the expression "Humanistic Buddhism". To everyone who is not a Buddhist, it simply means Applied Buddhism or practical Budhism.
There has been challenges to Buddhism in all eras. To my mind, there is no greater solution, no enduring remedy to the challenges in any era than the creation of Buddha's disciples known as Arhants who would advice and give lead to people to solve their problems as and when they arise, regardless of color, race, creed or nation. Whatever the problems - social problems like injustice or natural catastrophies like earthquake or global problems like climate change
- the cutting edges of weapons in Buddhist armory to counter them always lay in individuals in the first instance, and subsequently in their organizations, with or without the support of governments. Therawada Buddhism which I am more familiar with has had a monastic order in place since Buddha'.s time where trained monks are turned out in large numbers, year after year, in Therawada countries - Sri Lanka, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia. Many of the trained monastics become bodhisatvas (seekers of enlightenment), few if any become fully enlightened worthy ones known as arhants who are worthy to advice and lead. Finding arhants is like mining for diamonds.
Many of the social service organizations, Buddhist or other, fail because of the absence of arhants, the fully enlightened ones, to lead them. The fully enlightened arhants emerge out of the multitudes of monks, worthy to advice and worthy to lead..
There have been a plethora of institutions with long histories of social service like the CARE, the American Peace Core, Red Cross, YMCAs, and many others. Bhikkhu Bodhi has mentioned American Jewish World Service (AJWS) which is relatively a new organization like the Islamic Relief USA and others, all of which "aiming to alleviate suffering, hunger, illiteracy and disease, worldwide". On the other hand, organizations with limited goals also take birth like the Armenian Relief Society with its limited goal of serving the humanitarian needs of the Armenian people worldwide, who still suffer from the effects of its underreported holocaust of early 20th century. I wonder what make AJWS exceptional.
Has AJWS tested its declared objective of social service on the soils of Israel's next door neighbors or in the Arab sector inside Israel itself? Some material on the internet gave me the impression that AJWS perhaps took birth out of cognitive dissonance among American Jews suffering from psychological conflicts between incompatible beliefs and attitudes.
The highly efficient style of working of organizations like AJWS backed by media support can make favourable impression of them even if they do not have enlightened leaders and violate one or more of the five precepts that the Buddhists always practise in all their endeavours.
Social service is the objective of most organizations, but they have besides social service something which make them distinct. For instance, the U.S. after taking thousands of lives in Japan with their nuclear armory seek to create a better image of the U.S.with its Peace Core volunteers, YMCAs seek to spread Christian messages behind their altruism, what if AJWS seeks to show Jewish presence in world service, no matter that the Jews are only 0.2 percent of a world population of 7 billion.
I wish to draw the attention of my readers to an organization which I had in mind when I wrote earlier in this piece about arhants and searching for them like mining for diamonds.
The organization is called Fo Guang Shan (FGS), which means literally "Buddha's Light Mountain", and its organizer is Master Venerable Hsing Yun, born in mainland China in 1927. Master Venrable Hsing Yun founded FGS in 1967 in a remote quiet area in the hills of Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan. It is a Mahayana Buddhist order promoting Humanistic Budddhism, a modern Chinese philosophy. Humanistic Buddhism aims to make Buddhism relevant in the world and in the people's lives and hearts. It is a monastic order and not a theoretical school of thought per se.
In May 1997, Hsing Yun got the gates of FGS closed to the general public in order to give a cloistered atmosphere to the temple residents.
But, following the plea of the public headed by the President of Taiwan, FGS reopened the gates in December 2000. In the last 40 years since its inception, FGS has been remarkably successful in extending its services beyond Taiwan, setting up temples and organizations in 173 countries and encompassing more than 3,500 monastics. FGS also created an affiliate in 1992, Buddha's Light International Association (BLIA),
which has now over 100 chapters in the world. The monastic order represented by Fo Guang Shan and Buddha's Light International Association has now over a milliom followers worldwide. It has been said "In Master Venerable Hsing Yun, Buddhism has found a reformer, an innovator and an educator. Under his strong leadership, Buddhism has extended beyond traditional temple life to integrate and further enrich the modern city dwellers."
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Old article on Dr.Eleanor Zelliot, but still relevant, Dalit Writings need to be Promoted!
Monday, November 22, 1999 US scholar pleads for more Dalit writings Express News Service November 21: For American scholar Dr Eleanor Zelliot, bringing the accomplishments of Dalit writers to the English-speaking world is her ``limited service'' to the cause of the oppressed in India. ``I am doing my bit,'' she proudly stated in a lecture on `Dalit Sahitya: Progress and Problems' at the Asiatic Society recently.
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Ravana & the depiction of 10 Heads? What is the Rationale?
Ravana's ten heads represent the ten crowns he wore as a result of his being the sovereign of ten countries.
Ravana is a hero for Sinhala nationalists & Ravan is a Great Hero of Dalits & Oppressed!
The Ramayana is not part of the mainstream Sinhala religious and cultural tradition in Sri Lanka, because Buddhism has been the religion of the majority of Sinhalas for long. But ancient Sinhala works like Rajavaliya and Ravanavaliya identify Ravana as a Sinhala king and extol him as a great one.
In modern Sri Lanka, there has been a movement to revive Ravana as a cult figure, who represents Sinhala or Sri Lankan nationalism because he was among the first in the island's history to have resisted an alien/Indian invader.
Scholar Arisen Ahubudhu is the current representative of the ultra nationalistic Hela movement founded by the renowned Sinhala litterateur, the Late Munidasa Kumaratunga. The Hela movement has been urging the Sinhalas to go back to their roots shunning Indian, Hinduistic and other alien influences.
In his book Sakvithi Ravana (first published in 1988) Ahubudhu says that Ravana reigned over Sri Lanka from 2554 to 2517 BC. He quotes Ravanavaliya to say that Ravana belonged to the "Sun race" as Ra signifies the sun and vana signifies generation.
Ravana's ten heads represent the ten crowns he wore as a result of his being the sovereign of ten countries. Ravana's ancestors ruled over what is now the Polonnaruwa district in North Central Sri Lanka, the name Polonnaruwa being a derivative of the word Pulasthi, the name of the dynasty to which Ravana belonged. Ravana, however, ruled over the entire island and many places beyond.
Ahubudhu trashes the Ramayana story that Rama invaded Sri Lanka because Ravana had kidnapped Sita. According to the author, Ravana's step brother Vibhishana, had invited Rama to invade Sri Lanka because he was wanting to oust Ravana from the kingship of the island.
"When considering the fact that Sita's chastity was proved, this can be taken as a story concocted by Yuwaraja Vibhishana in order to discredit Ravana in the eyes of his people and take advantage thereof," he says.
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Marching Towards Dalit Empowerment:http://dalituniversity.org/index.php
For those who do not know who dalits are & for those who do not know what is untouchablity, see in this video!
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/455000/video/_459591_lak_xws1500_vi.ram
Parliment & Dr.Ambedkar"s 111th birth Annivarsary
A video on Dr.Bhimarao Ambedkar's Birth Annivarsary
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020415/apr14icev2-56k.rm
Warning!!! THE CONSTRUCTION IS SET FOR THIS SCHOLARLY BLOG.
WHILE IT IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION, IT IS NOT COMPLETE IN ANY SENSE, SO IF SOME NAMES, EVENTS AND PLACES ARE MISSING, IT WILL BE BROUGHT IN IN DUE TIME. SO, DON'T BE UPSET ABOUT NAMES, REMAIN ME, JUST BY SENDING THE NAMES YOU THINK SHOULD BE INCLUDED WITH A BRIEF INTRODUCTION. I WILL MAKE SURE AN UNBIASED CONSIDERATION IS GIVEN.
SO DO NOT GO CRAZY!, SCHOLARLY IS STILL GROWING IN KNOWLEDGE AND STRENGTH EVERYDAY UNTIL FULLY UPDATED!
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Dr.Ambedkar-He is THE LIBERATOR OF OBCs, BCs & other Indians too
1.I shall not consider Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh as God nor shall I worship them. **************************2.I shall not consider Ram and Krishna as God nor shall I worship them.************************** 3.I shall not believe in Gouri-Ganesh and other Gods and goddesses of Hindu Religion nor shall I worship them. *************************
4.I don’t have faith incarnation of God. *************************
5.I believe that, Buddha is incarnation of Vishnu, is a false and malicious propaganda. *************************
6.I shall not perform shraddha, nor shall I give pind-dan.***********************7.I shall not practice anything which is against and different from Buddha’s Dhamma. ***********************
8.I will not perform any rituals to be performed by Brahmins. 9.I believe that all human beings are equal.***********************10.I shall make efforts to establish equality.
11.I shall follow the Eightfold path as told by the Buddha.*************************
12.I shall practice ten Paramitas as told by the Buddha. ************************
13.I shall have compassion and living kindness for all living beings and protect them. ************************
14.I shall not steal. ************************
15.I shall not tell lies. ************************
16.I shall not commit any sexual misconduct. ************************
17.I shall not consume liquor/intoxicants. ***********************
18.I shall lead a life based on Buddhist Principle of wisdom, Precepts, and compassion. ***********************
19. I denounce Hindu religion which is Harmful for my development as a human being and which has treated human being unequal lowly and I accept Buddha’s Dhamma. ************************
20.I am convinced that Buddha’s Dhamma is Saddhamma. ***********************
21.I believe that I am taking new birth. ***********************
22.I commit that henceforth I shall act as per Buddha’s principles and teachings.
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