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Send from Sansgreet Android App. Sanskrit greetings app from team @livesanskrit . It's the first Android app for sending @sanskrit greetings. Download app from https://livesanskrit.com/sansgreet Heinrich Robert Zimmer Heinrich Robert Zimmer (6 December 1890 – 20 March 1943) was a German Indologist and linguist, as well as a historian of South Asian art, most known for his works, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization and Philosophies of India. He was the most important German scholar in Indian Philology after Max Müller (1823-1900). In 2010, a "Heinrich Zimmer Chair for Indian Philosophy and Intellectual History" was inaugurated at Heidelberg University. #sansgreet #sanskritgreetings #greetingsinsanskrit #sanskritquotes #sanskritthoughts #emergingsanskrit #sanskrittrends #trendsinsanskrit #livesanskrit #sanskritlanguage #sanskritlove #sanskritdailyquotes #sanskritdailythoughts #sanskrit #resanskrit #heinrichzimmer #german #indologist #linguist #historian #indianphilology #heidelberguniversity #greifswald #newrochelle #newyork #usa #academic #southasianart #celebratingsanskrit #germany https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp-s3slPya2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Explore the International Roerich Memorial Trust, Manali | A Cultural Heritage in Naggar

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"Let us live joyfully among those who bear a grudge, and let us not bear a grudge. We shall live without resentment among those who hold grudges." - Buddha (Dhammapada 197)

This month, we will be posting the exact commentary on “Compassion and Peace” in the Dhammapada by Hajime Nakamura, a leading scholar of Buddhist thought and Indian philosophy who was the first to translate the Pali Tripitaka into Japanese. “Dhammapada” is the word of truth (Buddha’s word) in Pali.　

Recognising the roots of human suffering and aiming to overcome them to reach a state of peace is a highly personal activity. However, humans are not isolated beings. As long as we live in human society, our relationships with others are naturally problematic. The Dhammapada strongly rejects violence that harms others.

“Everyone is frightened by violence. Life is dear to all living beings. Do not compare yourself to others by killing them. Do not let them kill you.” - Buddha (Dhammappa 130)

No matter how painful it is to live, having your life cut short by someone else is the ultimate fear for any living being. The Dhammapada strongly rejects violence that harms others, because while there remains the possibility of overcoming suffering, once life is lost, it cannot be regenerated. One human life is indeed invaluable.

In our daily lives, we do not think deeply about what it is to be human, but we are reminded of the countless conditions required for a single life to come into being, and how rare it is to be born as a human being, among many other lives.

It is truly ludicrous for people to hate, resent or hurt each other because each person has received a human body that is difficult to receive and is living an irreplaceable and precious life. 

The ideal of the Dhammapada is for human beings to respect each other's lives, to follow the teachings of the truth and to live in peace, without holding resentments. 

[Hajime Nakamura (November 28, 1912 – October 10, 1999) was a Japanese Orientalist, Indologist, philosopher and academic of Vedic, Hindu and Buddhist scriptures.]

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The Monkey King - Sun Wukong who first appears in Chinese stories (Journey to the West) during the Ming Dynasty period 1368 to 1644 CE, well after the introduction of Buddhism to China in about 206-220 CE.

But, was he inspired by another Monkey hero/character of myth?

The prevailing and dominant theory among Asian scholars is ...yeah, likely.

That character, Hanuman, king of the monkeys (the monkey people -Vanaras- of Vedic myth!).

The story follows a Buddhist monk who is accompanied by Sun Wukong and others to travel west to India to obtain sacred Buddhist sutras. Many of their powers and personality traits are similar as well.

We know that Vedic god such as Indra have made their way as far as Japan to take root and be worshipped because of the spread of Buddhism.

As I've talked about before and is shown in texts such as the journey's of Ibn Battuta / Ibn Fadlan, storytelling was a weapon and powerful tool for idea transfer--propagation. Philosophy was huge in the old world - and places such as Nalanda - the first residential university in the world - invited scholars from all over such as Greeks from the west, and the Japanese. Buddhism became a vehicle for trading things such as: martial arts information, medicine, sciences, and of course, myths and stories.

However, as with stories, people usually altered/coopted elements and molded them to better suit their cultures and fancy. That's a thing as old as time. I've shared how the panchatantra stories and jatka tales are thought to be the inspiration for nearly 30-50 percent of all nursery rhymes, ballads, "fairy tales".

Anyways back to this theory - Chinese Indologist Professor Liu Anwu of Peking University has dedicated chapters to the comparisons (in one of his works) to further break down this theory focusing on consistent and or similar depictions of beats in Journey to the West that of Rama's story in Ramayama and the Buddhist sutras.

Even though today the story of Sun Wukong is a wholly Chinese story - it's important to note the power of oral storytelling and how it travelled evolved over thousands of years, and, just as important, the vehicles it used to do so. Not just storytellers and philosophers and travelers but religion! Philosophy!

This is a theme heavily commented on and shown in Tales of Tremaine, which is my love letter and sort of self PhD. in comparative storytelling, mythology, and story foundry through an Asiatic lens (hence a silk road analog) stretching along a similar route the silk road did from damn near as far as you can east (complete with the oceanic routes) to as west as old venezia, portugal, and spain.

Also note: this is the most popular theory atm, but the operative word is theory. Experts likely far better than you, Internet, so chill before you comment, are still debating this. I know last week some of you were doctors in sociopolitical relations, the music industry before that, and then you were leading virologists before that. Spare us simpler folks from your mighty genius just now and sit down.

The point here is the beauty of stories and their ability to travel and morph and comment on themes/points ideologies important to cultures while being entertaining and showing that humans like certain universal moments, beats, archetypes, tropes, and progressions in tales.

Now, is that because we've naturally been predisposed liking them, or the opposite in that everyone went, yo, i dig this, took it home and someone else went, this is cool but needs to be more US (insert culture) and retold it. And thus...timemachine noises speed up. Here we are today?

You might not know that about 35,000 Chinese words ( I said this instead of Mandarin because they don't just show up in one language) are derived from Sanskrit as well as Pali (a Middle Indo-Aryan Liturgical Language -- meaning language of sacredness/religious use, in this case connected to sacred Buddhist texts). It is important to make the distinction, because, Internet!

Sanskrit did not SHAPE the Chinese languages. They evolved on their own. This is just a commentary on how words/stories shaped over travel in this case strongly through the spread of Buddhism.

Religion was the mover.

Back from quick bathroom break. Going to add again - INSPIRED is the keyword here.

INSPIRED.

Sun Wukong is his own mythos/character. Influence doesn't nor can claim dominion over everything in a later tale. Sun Wukong has gone on himself to inspire legends and characters Outside of China - re: most famously and legendary?

Son Goku - who is openly a Sun Wukong inspired character.

...hell, tbh, he might be the most famous monkey inspired super powered character now. Dude makes soccer stadiums air his fights. @_@.

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Mummified heads from Xiaohe cemetery 2000 BCE

"Readers of Language Log will certainly be aware of Tocharian, but when I began my international research project on the Tarim Basin mummies in 1991, very few people — only a tiny handful of esoteric researchers — had ever heard of the Tocharians and their language since they went extinct more than a millennium ago, until fragmentary manuscripts were discovered in the early part of the 20th century and were deciphered by Sieg und Siegling (I always love the sound of their surnames linked together by "und"), two German Indologists / philologists — Emil Sieg (1866-1951) and Wilhelm Siegling (1880-1946), in the first decade of the last century.

It wasn't long after the decipherment of Tocharian by Sieg und Siegling that historical linguists began to realize the monumental importance of this hitherto completely unknown language. First of all, it is the second oldest — after Hittite — Indo-European language to branch off from PIE. Second, even though its historical seat was on the back doorstep of Sinitic and it loaned many significant words (e.g., "honey", "lion") to the latter, it is a centum (Hellenic, Celtic, Italic and Germanic) language lying to the east of the satem (Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic) IE languages. (PROVISO: some sophists will undoubtedly argue that the centum-satem split in Indo-European is meaningless; it has happened before on Language Log and elsewhere, but I think it does matter for the history of IE languages and the people who spoke them.) Third, Tocharian has grammatical features that resemble Italic, Celtic, and Germanic (i.e., northwest European languages) more than they do the other branches of IE. (STIPULATION: certain casuists will surely argue that such differences are meaningless, but I believe they are crucial for comprehending the nature of the spread of IE in time and space.) Etc.

Because their physical, textual, and cultural remains were indisputably found in the Tarim Basin, the Tocharians naturally became a primary focus of my investigations in Eastern Central Asia during the more than two decades from the nineties through 2012."

-Victor Mair, Language Log: The sound and sense of Tocharian. University of Pennsylvania.

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Der Historiker ist ein rückwärts gekehrter Prophet.

A historian is a prophet turned backwards.

Friedrich Schlegel (1772 – 1829), German cultural philosopher, writer, literature and art critic, historian, and classic scholar, pioneer of indo-german studies, comparative linguistics, and ground-breaking indologist

[h0bg0blin-meat]

Oksy it's high time I ask this now.

Y'all make me wanna learn abt hindu mythology in DEEP

(like my Dory brain only knows bits and pieces,and major events)

So yeah ✨how do I get started ✨

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If yee gonna suggest books (I mean ofc) plz shorter ver. Batana :')

Okay so first of all, start from the very beginning, the Rig Veda. Very important. And read the scriptures first. Always. And look out for purposeful mistranslations or misrepresentation by reading several versions of the scriptures (yeah it's hard ik).

Also I can suggest you Alfred Hillebrandt's Vedic Mythology (2 vols) and dw for a more concise study of the gods of the pantheon. And dw, he's not the Max Müller kind, and is a true Indologist, cuz I usually fact check his stuff with the scriptures.

And then Devdutt Pattnaik is also good when it comes to explaining Hindu mythology and concepts. So yeah.

If others have more suggestions feel free to help krabby out.

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I present to you, a Holiday Party for the ages!

We have so many VIP guests gracing us with their marvelous presence, including Mavis Burnell the Art Restorer, Diana aka Artemis the Goddess of the Hunt, Her Majesty Queen Ellara Gwenhevare Methildis Ymeri, Selena the CEO of Bridge Corp, Gabrielle Walker the Angelic Councillor and Amala Khan the Indologist!

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I'm so, so late to post this but eh who cares-

[amitashi]

"Some spiritual teachers of India and European indologists consider School of Trika (Kashmir Shivaism) peak of indian philosophic thought, "main jewel in its crown" and also apogee of Indian Tantrism in whole."

Victoria Dmitrieva

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Prime Minister Modi's first visit to Austria and is also first visit by an Indian Prime Minister after a gap of 41 years. As you all know, both countries are also celebrating 75th year of the establishment of diplomatic relations this year. The visit therefore, assumes very special significance. In terms of engagements, the Austrian Chancellor, Excellency Karl Nehammer, hosted a private dinner for the Prime Minister last night. And this morning, Prime Minister received a formal ceremonial welcome at the Federal Chancellery by the Chancellor. Thereafter, the two leaders held detailed delegation-level talks covering the entire gamut of bilateral partnership across various domains. Thereafter, the two leaders also addressed to the press and gave their press remarks.

Prime Minister Modi and Austrian Chancellor thereafter had a meeting, extensive meeting, with the CEOs of major Indian and Austrian companies, focusing on the full spectrum of economic partnership between India and Austria, the opportunities that exist in various areas. During the meeting with the CEOs, the focus was particularly on green development, the digital space, including the artificial intelligence. Focus was also on the new and emerging technologies, renewable energy, waste management, water management, the start-up space, and other areas of infrastructure. There were very clear opportunities that were pointed out by the CEOs on both sides, which under the direction and enablement of the two governments, could be taken forward by the private sector on both sides. Reference was also made at this meeting about the Vienna start-up bridge, which was set up in February 24. It has seen extensive participation of the Indian start-up sector in Austria.

At the bridge, about 35 Indian start-up companies participated. It's a very thriving and upcoming space, which essentially connects the innovation ecosystem in India with the strong base of science, technology, and research, and the associated ecosystem that prevails in Austria. Environmental technologies, waste management technologies, clean transportation system, renewable energy, technology spectrum in these areas were in particular focus by the CEOs at this business interaction. Thereafter, the Prime Minister called on the President of Austria. They focused their discussions on both issues of importance and bilateral engagement, and also touched upon the regional and global issues.

Prime minister also met three other important people from the Austrian society. In fact, those meetings are still going on. One of them was with the Austrian Nobel Laureate, Mr. Anton Zeilinger, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2022. Interacting currently Prime Minister also is with the three leading Austrian Indologists and scholars of Indian history and philosophy, Dr. Birgit Kellner, Professor Martin Gaenszle, and Dr. Borayin Larios. A

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PM Modi Meets Indologists in Austria; Discusses Indian History, Philosophy, Art & Culture

During the discussion, the scholars also talked about their academic and research engagement with India, the press release said. (Image: @narendramodi/X) “Prime Minister Modi exchanged views on Indology and various facets of Indian history, philosophy, art and culture with the scholars,” the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi said in a press release Prime Minister Narendra Modi on…

[livesanskrit]

Send from Sansgreet Android App. Sanskrit greetings app from team @livesanskrit . It's the first Android app for sending @sanskrit greetings. Download app from https://livesanskrit.com/sansgreet Heinrich Robert Zimmer Heinrich Robert Zimmer (6 December 1890 – 20 March 1943) was a German Indologist and linguist, as well as a historian of South Asian art, most known for his works, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization and Philosophies of India. He was the most important German scholar in Indian Philology after Max Müller (1823-1900). In 2010, a "Heinrich Zimmer Chair for Indian Philosophy and Intellectual History" was inaugurated at Heidelberg University. #sansgreet #sanskritgreetings #greetingsinsanskrit #sanskritquotes #sanskritthoughts #emergingsanskrit #sanskrittrends #trendsinsanskrit #livesanskrit #sanskritlanguage #sanskritlove #sanskritdailyquotes #sanskritdailythoughts #sanskrit #resanskrit #heinrichzimmer #german #indologist #linguist #historian #indianphilology #heidelberguniversity #greifswald #newrochelle #newyork #usa #academic #southasianart #celebratingsanskrit #germany https://www.instagram.com/p/ClyyY8cPkHi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Prominent Austrian Indologists meet PM Modi in Vienna

http://dlvr.it/T9QTjJ @narendramodi

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I need changes in my life

Soon I'll enter to study, I surely have to bring good grades for my mom, to get economic help for the college. (It's trulyyyy expensive lol)

I want to be a nurse or a lawyer to help other people but it was something I never wanted before because I always was selfish and only thought about me.

I must bring my family to live here, I want to have a good job to bring them in a future.

Because my desire is to help others but in personal aspects I'd love to be an indologist, you know, to study indian culture. I love history around the world, I need to learn more and more, is something that I actually can do.

-To be an artist, yes, I know that being an artist is not only to be a painter or a music or write but more. -To learn how to touch instruments, like the violin, I love challenges since my life is one.

-I want to do everything but at the moment I can't, not now, not soon, my life is going slower than before it seems.

I only hope in a future I would do it, when nobody would depend of me, where only would be me, to be everything I desire, a life far from everyone or not to live in some place at all, to go to a place to another, to be free.

But it's only one of my many dreams I have, it's something that a teenager could do, right?

[stevesstranger]

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AMALA I. KHAN

book: kali: call of darkness

love interest: killian lightwood

path: loyalty + low respect + rage of goddess

face claim: charithra chandran

published state: completed

full name: amala indira basu

nicknames: mala, june lily, maharani

age: twenty-five

occupation: indologist

sexuality: heterosexual

status: dead