I couldn't agree more with you for 2 reasons. One, Nalanda was the first and maybe the only Asian university ever. In its long history of 800 yrs it housed students from all over of which the Chinese were the foremost in number. They went back to give glowing reports of the holistic learning they recieved. They did the same for South India too...when they were stunned by the wealth of these cities. So it was their Alma Mater too.
Second the need of the hour for expansive thinking , beyond the silo we are
Trapped in today. Science , maths management....into social sciences and humanity including g rigion.
On 08-Jun-2017 10:17, "Surender Reddy Geedipalli" <gsr123@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear MTCians,--It's a great news indeed! I beg to differ with the wording of the caption and the inference. We should feel really happy that the name and fame of Nalanda University is being promoted not only by India, but also by China. There should a Nalanda University in every major country of the world. In fact, predominantly Buddhist countries like Japan, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Thailand must also establish their own Nalanda Universities.We should also reestablish Takshashila, Vikramashila and other famous ancient Indian Universities. Further, building a global university in Ayodhya will surely enhance India's image in the comity of nations. This new university could conduct research and offer advanced programs in Statecraft/Governance, Diplomacy, Ethics, Human Values, Culture, Ecology, Wildlife and Indian Ethos.Regards,Prof. G. Surender ReddyDean, SNIST, HyderabadOn Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 8:27 AM, kiran paranjpe <kdparanjpe@rediffmail.com> wrote:Sir, There seems to be a difference in how we set our goals vs how China sets its goals.
I believe, their goal setting have twin aims, Firstly, to serve their own larger economic
interests and secondly, to deny a competitive advantage to its perceived adversaries. Two
cases are in order. The first example is of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor ( CPEC
). It meets both the objectives as it stymies it perceived adversary-India.
A second example is the damming the upper reaches of the Brhmaputra river. It also does
the same.
While, it does not want to lose a huge market for its manufactured products, it uses
simultaneously its favorable trade surplus to make investments in India so as to stifle
indigenous industry. Witness the number of Chinese manufacturers in electronics.
Although, it may not be in our best interests to play a tit- for-tat game. We have to be
far more energetic in pursuing our own goals that are properly integrated.
Best regards,
K.Paranjpe
On Wed, 07 Jun 2017 12:22:05 +0530 bala bhaskaran wrote
>Hi All
In normal circumstances one should congratulate China for such an initiative. Despite the
motives behind it, the outcome is laudable.
What is causing us immense pain, is the pathological indifference and derision we,
Indian, have have shown in the efforts to create the Nalanda University. We are deep into
the "can of worms" syndrome. Most ventures, in our country, unfortunately tend to have
the same destiny.
On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Varun Arya wrote:
FYI please.=From: "'K. Jaya Kumar' jaya_k_@hotmail.com
[IIT-Global]"
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Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 01:11:45 +0000
Subject: IIT Global Current Affairs China gets its own
Nalanda, shames India
http://www.newindianexpress.com/thesundaystandard/2017/jun/0 4/china-gets-its-own-nalanda-
shames-india-1612588.html
China gets
its own Nalanda, shames India
By Yatish
Yadav | Published: 04th June 2017 08:12 AM |
Last
Updated: 04th June 2017 08:12 AM | A+A A- |
Prof Bala BhaskaranB Tech, PGDM, CFA, PhDNanhai
Buddhist College
NEW DELHI: China has scored a
major victory in soft power diplomacy by quietly launching its own Nalanda
University while the original Nalanda campus in Bihar, planned almost a decade
ago, is still stuck with 455-acre dead space.
China's
education ministry had managed to keep the plan a secret till a few weeks ago
when it formally announced the enrolment for Nanhai Buddhist College in Hainan
province in May. The first batch is set to take off from September with a
strength of 220 students to occupy the vacant Buddhist diplomacy space. Nalanda
in 2014 had started with just 14 students and 11 teachers. Sources said the
secrecy is baffling since China was part of the global team, which first
promoted the idea of reconstructing Nalanda University in the ancient Indian
city in 2006.
Nalanda
was hit by the careless approach of its mentors, including Nobel laureate
Amartya Sen and his team, since the beginning of 2007 when the Manmohan Singh
government appointed them to work out the plan for the institution.
"In 2011,
China had given a million-dollar cheque as donation for reconstruction of
Nalanda. It appears now that Chinese were working in parallel to create the
Buddhist university. Such sprawling campus cannot be built in one or two years.
They must have started construction in 2012," sources said.
The
Chinese Nalanda version is a sea-facing structure located on scenic Nanshan
Mountains spread across 618.8 acres. Chinese have rechristened the university's
coastline as "Brahma Pure Land", a concept borrowed from 'Yoga Vashistha' and
Mahayana Buddhism. The Chinese Nalanda will offer courses in three
languages—Pali, Tibetan and Chinese in six departments—Buddhism, Tibetan
Buddhism, and the Buddhist Architectural Design and Research Institute.
The Chinese Buddhist university
is closely linked to the Buddhist centres in Thailand, Sri Lanka, Nepal and
Cambodia, which is seen as an attempt to completely sideline the Indian side in
soft power diplomacy. The China has appointed monk Yin Shun as the dean of the
university, who is interestingly abbot of Lumbini-based Zhong Hua Buddhist
temple. Lumbini is the birthplace of Buddha, and China has been aggressively
pushing to promote Nepalese pilgrimage site to counter India's Sarnath and
Bodhgaya, where Gautama Buddha is said to have attained enlightenment. Since
early 2010, Yin Shun has been advocating "the South China Sea Strategy" and had
closely worked with Thailand and Nepal to create Buddhist 'One Belt and One
Road' (OBOR).
It is a known fact that India
recently boycotted China's high-profile economic design flagging sovereignty
concerns over China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which passes through
Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). The plan, according to sources, is to link
Lumbini, Wuxi and Hainan through Buddhist OBOR, usurping Buddhist legacy of
India. Wuxi, near Shanghai, has been turned into permanent venue of world
Buddhist forum by the Chinese government. According to sources, students as far
as South American countries are applying to the Chinese university, which, along
with knowledge, promises to provide best air and seawater quality in entire
South Asia.
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