Long thread and not on WhatApp University: I restrained myself from writing about #NalandaUniversity over the last few days. Was waiting for all jokers to stop parroting about Khilji. I bet 99.99% of those posting can't even point Nalanda on the map. Nalanda was looted MANY 1/n
2/n) times - 7th, 8th and 9th century and then plundered by Khilji around 12th CE. When Hieun Tsang returned to China, he carried back horseback full of rarest of the rare Bhuddhist literature. Eventually those found their way to universities & museums in the US. My aunt and....
3/n & the GGG granddaughter of #BankimChandraChatterjee (the gentleman who wrote Bande Mataram) painstakingly translated all that literature from ancient Chinese (translated by Hieun Tsang) to English. She was HoD for #Buddhism & #AncientChinese at Urbana Champaign & was given
4/n access to ALL that literature inscribed on Sal leaves. During the islamic invasion, while some of the artifacts and the physical structure were destroyed, several were saved by my family which you will still find at #UttarparaJoykrishnaLibrary, many were shipped off to Tibet
5/n and many hidden still at Swedagon monastery in #Myanmar. Additionally 8 strands of Buddha's hair is also enshrined in Shwedagon, where you cannot go anoymore given the political climate. As a student of Buddhist teaching, I've had the good fortune of seeing it all. Most..
6/n of the ancient Buddhist content that you will find at #NalandaUniversity are gifts that #RashbehariMukherjee made. #RashbehariMukherjee was one of the great unnoticed Bhuddhist philosophers of the 19th century & #SwamiVivekananda's mentor in Buddhism. The reason why he was...
7/n the custodian of Budddha's bones which were placed in a Gold Urn in his house in #Uttarpara. The problem with politicians is that they love to do photo ops without getting into the substance. All the dolts going gungho over @narendramodi
visit to #NalandaRebuilt were quiet
visit to #NalandaRebuilt were quiet
@narendramodi 8/n when last year I posted a desperate SOS call to save these rarest of the rare artifacts that the corrupt rotten Bengal government were destroying in broad daylight....either burning them or throwing them in the adjacent Ganges ya'll were busy chanting "Modi Modi". A well
@narendramodi 9/n wisher started a @Change campaign too. @sanc_off released a series of posts, visited the site, tried to rope in heritage enthusists from all over the world. All of you were busy smothering your ego & growing your @X base. Today you are screaming #NalanaRebuilt. Shame on you
@narendramodi @Change @sanc_off @X 10/n what is even more pathetic is people like @smritiirani @ianuragthakur @kishanreddybjp @dpradhanbjp @mansukhmandviya @JPNadda knew about this, but did nothing. All of you writing about #NalandaRebuilt should know this.
There are millions of folks screaming to save India's
There are millions of folks screaming to save India's
@narendramodi @Change @sanc_off @X @smritiirani @ianuragthakur @kishanreddybjp @dpradhanbjp @mansukhmandviya @JPNadda 11/n #heritage and #history, but only 704 twitter warriors found it worthy of signing a simple e-petition.
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