Hindu gods forgotten in India revered in Japan Krishnendu Bandyopadhyay| TNN | Jan 11, 2016, 02.56 AM IST
Even deities forgotten in India are worshipped in Japan. A unique exhibition at Indian Museum here is set to throw light on the country's long lost history that survives in a foreign land.
The Japan Foundation and filmmaker and art-historian Benoy K Behl have collaborated to hold an exhibition of rare photographs that will be inaugurated on Monday and will continue until January 21."The exhibition will be a rare treat for the eyes and the mind," said Indian Museum education officer Sayan Bhattacharya.
The research that accompanies Behl's photographs reveals startling facts about the importance of Indian heritage in Japan.
For instance, the 6th century Siddham script is preserved in Japan, though it has disappeared from India. 'Beejaksharas' (or etymology of alphabets) of Sanskrit in this script are regarded as holy and given great importance. Each deity has a 'Beejakshara' and these are venerated by the people, even though most of them cannot read it. Some Japanese tombs are adorned with the Sanskrit alphabet.
At Koyasan, they still have a school where Sanskrit is taught in Siddham, Behl's research revealed.
A number of words in the Japanese language have their roots in Sanskrit. In Japanese supermarkets, a major brand of milk products is called 'Sujata'. The company's personnel are taught the story of Sujata who gave sweet rice-milk to the Buddha, with which he broke his period of austerity, before he achieved enlightenment. "All this and more are revealed through Behl's photography," Bhattacharya added.
Apart from the language, there are deeper civilizational connections that can be traced to early developments of philosophy in India, he said.
Behl wrote in his research, "In many ways, this philosophic understanding is most well preserved in Japan. Japan has not had the breakdown of cultural norms which India suffered when a colonial education system was created. Therefore, most Indians learnt about our own culture from the Western point of view. The dominant and admired language was English, which it remains till today."
The National Geographic had carried an 18-page story on ancient Indian art revealed through Behl's photography to the world. The exhibition will also explain how India's relationship with Japan.
"The deep-rooted spirit of the Buddha's teachings energizes the Japanese people. Buddhist temples are numerous and vast numbers of people visit these every day. Besides the Buddha, many ancient Indian deities and practices (prevail) in their temples. An Indian feels quite at home in Japan," Behl wrote.
The research that accompanies Behl's photographs reveals startling facts about the importance of Indian heritage in Japan.
For instance, the 6th century Siddham script is preserved in Japan, though it has disappeared from India. 'Beejaksharas' (or etymology of alphabets) of Sanskrit in this script are regarded as holy and given great importance. Each deity has a 'Beejakshara' and these are venerated by the people, even though most of them cannot read it. Some Japanese tombs are adorned with the Sanskrit alphabet.
At Koyasan, they still have a school where Sanskrit is taught in Siddham, Behl's research revealed.
A number of words in the Japanese language have their roots in Sanskrit. In Japanese supermarkets, a major brand of milk products is called 'Sujata'. The company's personnel are taught the story of Sujata who gave sweet rice-milk to the Buddha, with which he broke his period of austerity, before he achieved enlightenment. "All this and more are revealed through Behl's photography," Bhattacharya added.
Apart from the language, there are deeper civilizational connections that can be traced to early developments of philosophy in India, he said.
Behl wrote in his research, "In many ways, this philosophic understanding is most well preserved in Japan. Japan has not had the breakdown of cultural norms which India suffered when a colonial education system was created. Therefore, most Indians learnt about our own culture from the Western point of view. The dominant and admired language was English, which it remains till today."
The National Geographic had carried an 18-page story on ancient Indian art revealed through Behl's photography to the world. The exhibition will also explain how India's relationship with Japan.
"The deep-rooted spirit of the Buddha's teachings energizes the Japanese people. Buddhist temples are numerous and vast numbers of people visit these every day. Besides the Buddha, many ancient Indian deities and practices (prevail) in their temples. An Indian feels quite at home in Japan," Behl wrote.
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Damaged sculpture of Nandi found from Quanzhou. Archaeologists have found 300 such fragments belonging to H. temples from the area! 7/n
For eg. Panels depicting Krishnalila from Quanzhou. 1) Krishna playing flute 2)Krishna tied to Arjuna tree 3)Krishna with Gopis 8/n
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Few more panels depicting 1)Bhairav 2)Natraja 3)Vishnu with Sridevi & Bhudevi 4)Lakshmi(?) from Hindu temples of Quanzhou, China. 9/n
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Kaiyuan Buddhist temple of Quanzhou seems to have used material originally belonging to Hindu temples during its renovation c.15th CE . 10/n
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Few more panels from same site depicting 1)Gajendramoksha 2)Vishnu on Garuda 3)Elephant venerating Shivalinga 4)Cow adoring Shivalinga. 11/n
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Compare the last panel with same sort of sculpture from the temple of Tamilnadu. Almost copy cat execution! 12/n
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Similarly pillars from the temples in Tamilnadu such as shown below also show striking resemblance with those found from Quanzhou! 13/n
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So it is possible that artisans who built those temple came from India. Must be a costly endeavor by wealthy Hindu merchants in China! 14/n
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Stone panel depicting Goddess Kali in Quanzhou museum, China. Interestingly in nearby Buddhist temple similar image of Kali is still..15/n
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worshiped by locals as Boddhistava Guanyin!. Which indicates that in the past there must be few more Hindu temples in the area! 16/n
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Based on available evi. it seems that temples were ultimately destroyed during the revolt started by Muslim foreign traders of the city.17/n
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cco. to sources Muslims started rebellion due to their disapproval of the location of Hindu temple at an important cite in the city! 18/n
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It is often suggested that mercantile interests of Hindus were very limited due to restriction to the sea crossing imposed by Hinduism. 19/n
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But testimony of above temples amply suggest that even during med. times Hindus not only crossed the sea but thrived in foreign lands! 20/n
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all this in China ???
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Yes in Quanzhou port city, of Fujian province China.
- Damaged sculpture of Nandi found from Quanzhou. Archaeologists have found 300 such fragments belonging to H. temples from the area! 7/n
For eg. Panels depicting Krishnalila from Quanzhou. 1) Krishna playing flute 2)Krishna tied to Arjuna tree 3)Krishna with Gopis 8/n
- Few more panels depicting 1)Bhairav 2)Natraja 3)Vishnu with Sridevi & Bhudevi 4)Lakshmi(?) from Hindu temples of Quanzhou, China. 9/n
- Kaiyuan Buddhist temple of Quanzhou seems to have used material originally belonging to Hindu temples during its renovation c.15th CE . 10/n
- Few more panels from same site depicting 1)Gajendramoksha 2)Vishnu on Garuda 3)Elephant venerating Shivalinga 4)Cow adoring Shivalinga. 11/n
- Compare the last panel with same sort of sculpture from the temple of Tamilnadu. Almost copy cat execution! 12/n
- Similarly pillars from the temples in Tamilnadu such as shown below also show striking resemblance with those found from Quanzhou! 13/n
- So it is possible that artisans who built those temple came from India. Must be a costly endeavor by wealthy Hindu merchants in China! 14/n
- Stone panel depicting Goddess Kali in Quanzhou museum, China. Interestingly in nearby Buddhist temple similar image of Kali is still..15/n
- worshiped by locals as Boddhistava Guanyin!. Which indicates that in the past there must be few more Hindu temples in the area! 16/n
- Based on available evi. it seems that temples were ultimately destroyed during the revolt started by Muslim foreign traders of the city.17/n
- cco. to sources Muslims started rebellion due to their disapproval of the location of Hindu temple at an important cite in the city! 18/n
- It is often suggested that mercantile interests of Hindus were very limited due to restriction to the sea crossing imposed by Hinduism. 19/n
- But testimony of above temples amply suggest that even during med. times Hindus not only crossed the sea but thrived in foreign lands! 20/n
- Image Sources: 1)http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4b0a28e60102vh2a.html … 2)https://www.flickr.com/photos/100876232@N06/14038381434/in/dateposted/ … 3)Tamil Merchant Temples in India & China, 850-1281, Risha lee 21/n
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- all this in China ???
- Yes in Quanzhou port city, of Fujian province China.
Behind China’s Hindu temples, a forgotten history
A panel of inscriptions of the God Narasimha adorns the entrance to the main shrine of the temple, believed to have been installed by Tamil traders who lived in Quanzhou in the 13th century. Photo: Ananth Krishnan | Photo Credit: ANANTH KRISHNAN
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In and around Quanzhou, a bustling industrial city, there are shrines that historians believe may have been part of a network of more than a dozen Hindu temples and shrines
For the residents of Chedian, a few thousand-year-old village of muddy by-lanes and old stone courtyard houses, she is just another form of Guanyin, the female Bodhisattva who is venerated in many parts of China.
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But the goddess that the residents of this village pray to every morning, as they light incense sticks and chant prayers, is quite unlike any deity one might find elsewhere in China. Sitting cross-legged, the four-armed goddess smiles benignly, flanked by two attendants, with an apparently vanquished demon lying at her feet.
Local scholars are still unsure about her identity, but what they do know is that this shrine’s unique roots lie not in China, but in far away south India. The deity, they say, was either brought to Quanzhou — a thriving port city that was at the centre of the region’s maritime commerce a few centuries ago — by Tamil traders who worked here some 800 years ago, or perhaps more likely, crafted by local sculptors at their behest.
“This is possibly the only temple in China where we are still praying to a Hindu God,” says Li San Long, a Chedian resident, with a smile.
“Even though most of the villagers still think she is Guanyin!” Mr. Li said the village temple collapsed some 500 years ago, but villagers dug through the rubble, saved the deity and rebuilt the temple, believing that the goddess brought them good fortune — a belief that some, at least, still adhere to.
The Chedian shrine is just one of what historians believe may have been a network of more than a dozen Hindu temples or shrines, including two grand big temples, built in Quanzhou and surrounding villages by a community of Tamil traders who lived here during the Song (960-1279) and Yuan (1279-1368) dynasties.
At the time, this port city was among the busiest in the world and was a thriving centre of regional maritime commerce.
The history of Quanzhou’s temples and Tamil links was largely forgotten until the 1930s, when dozens of stones showing perfectly rendered images of the god Narasimha — the man-lion avatar of Vishnu — were unearthed by a Quanzhou archaeologist called Wu Wenliang. Elephant statues and images narrating mythological stories related to Vishnu and Shiva were also found, bearing a style and pattern that was almost identical to what was evident in the temples of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh from a similar period.
Wu’s discoveries received little attention at the time as his country was slowly emerging from the turmoil of the Japanese occupation, the Second World War and the civil war. It took more than a decade after the Communists came to power in 1949 for the stones and statues to even be placed in a museum, known today as the Quanzhou Maritime Museum.
“It is difficult to say how many temples there were, and how many were destroyed or fell to ruin,” the museum’s vice curator Wang Liming told The Hindu. “But we have found them spread across so many different sites that we are very possibly talking about many temples that were built across Quanzhou.”
Today, most of the sculptures and statues are on display in the museum, which also showcases a map that leaves little doubt about the remarkable spread of the discoveries. The sites stretch across more than a dozen locations located all over the city and in the surrounding county. The most recent discoveries were made in the 1980s, and it is possible, says Ms. Wang, that there are old sites yet to be discovered.
The Maritime Museum has now opened a special exhibit showcasing Quanzhou’s south Indian links. Ms. Wang says there is a renewed interest — and financial backing — from the local government to do more to showcase what she describes as the city’s “1000-year-old history with south India,” which has been largely forgotten, not only in China but also in India.
“There is still a lot we don't know about this period,” she says, “so if we can get any help from Indian scholars, we would really welcome it as this is something we need to study together. Most of the stones come from the 13th century Yuan Dynasty, which developed close trade links with the kingdoms of southern India. We believe that the designs were brought by the traders, but the work was probably done by Chinese workers.”
Ms. Wang says the earliest record of an Indian residing in Quanzhou dates back to the 6th century. An inscription found on the Yanfu temple from the Song Dynasty describes how the monk Gunaratna, known in China as Liang Putong, translated sutras from Sanskrit. Trade particularly flourished in the 13th century Yuan Dynasty. In 1271, a visiting Italian merchant recorded that the Indian traders “were recognised easily.”
“These rich Indian men and women mainly live on vegetables, milk and rice,” he wrote, unlike the Chinese “who eat meat and fish.” The most striking legacy of this period of history is still on public display in a hidden corner of the 7th century Kaiyuan Buddhist Temple, which is today Quanzhou’s biggest temple and is located in the centre of the old town. A popular attraction for Chinese Buddhists, the temple receives a few thousand visitors every day. In a corner behind the temple, there are at least half a dozen pillars displaying an extraordinary variety of inscriptions from Hindu mythology. A panel of inscriptions depicting the god Narasimha also adorns the steps leading up to the main shrine, which houses a Buddha statue. Huang Yishan, a temple caretaker whose family has, for generations, owned the land on which the temple was built, says the inscriptions are perhaps the most unique part of the temple, although he laments that most of his compatriots are unaware of this chapter of history. On a recent afternoon, as a stream of visitors walked up the steps to offer incense sticks as they prayed to Buddha, none spared a glance at the panel of inscriptions. Other indicators from Quanzhou’s rich but forgotten past lie scattered through what is now a modern and bustling industrial city, albeit a town that today lies in the shadow of the provincial capital Xiamen and the more prosperous port city of Guangzhou to the far south.
A few kilometres from the Kaiyuan temple stands a striking several metre-high Shiva lingam in the centre of the popular Bamboo Stone Park. To the city’s residents, however, the lingam is merely known as a rather unusually shaped “bamboo stone,” another symbol of history that still stays hidden in plain sight.
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Balamon Cham Hindus, last heirs of the ancient Champa (चम्पा) kingdom, from Vietnam. The Cham Hindus are one of only two surviving non-Indic indigenous Hindu peoples in the world.
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Indonesian Hindus doing Agnihotra (Havana), Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Hindus in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
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Shri Narendra Modi is the first Prime Minister of India who has made an attempt to connect India with Greater India. Never before did an Indian Prime Minister visit Buddhist monks living in various Asian countries and that too with great love and devotion. An attempt to connect India with an estimated 4 million Hindus of Indonesia and around 60,000 Hindus of Vietnam still needs to be undertaken. It is time that Indian spiritual masters and religious leaders should take this initiative a step further now.
Pictures: Shri Narendra Modi meeting Buddhist monks in Mongolia, China, Japan, Shri Lanka, Vietnam etc.
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One of the most beautiful things about Balinese Hinduism is the children's deep respect for their parents.
Balinese Hindu Temple Dance. In Balinese Hinduism, dance is an essential part of worship and ceremonies at the temple.
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A Krishna temple was constructed in Eastern Turkey in 149 BC by two princes from Kannauj, North India.
The Surb Karapet Monastery in Eastern Turkey, which housed the remains of John the Baptist, is said to have been erected over a temple of Lord Krishna in the 4th century CE by Gregory the Illuminator (c. 257-331 CE), the first head of the Armenian Church. The monastery was destroyed in 1915 CE, but attached are some pictures of the monastery which was originally built over a...
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A beautiful description of ancient India (including Shri Lanka and Java)
An observation based on a Chinese Buddhist monk’s 1600 year old travelogue of India
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I have just finished reading the beautiful descriptions of the Indian subcontinent as it was 1600 years ago by Fa Hien (also spelled Faxian, flourished 399-414 AD). Along with many other beautiful things, I noticed the following during my reading.
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I have just finished reading the beautiful descriptions of the Indian subcontinent as it was 1600 years ago by Fa Hien (also spelled Faxian, flourished 399-414 AD). Along with many other beautiful things, I noticed the following during my reading.
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Hindus from Bali and Lombok performing at the Traditional Dance Festival 2015 at TMII Jakarta.
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Melasti Pura Luhur Medang Kamulan di Candi Jolotundo Mojokerto.
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Hindus at the ancient Hindu Temple "Pura Bhakti Loka" (पुर भक्ति लोक) at the beautiful Bale Kambang Beach in Malang, Eastern Jawa (Indonesia).
Influence of Sanskrit on the Thai culture:
The Sasa Patasala (पाठशाला) Building houses one of Thailand's most prestigious Business Schools "Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University." Everyone in India can easily recognize the Sanskrit word from which the name of the building has been derived. Patasala has been derived from the Sanskrit word Pathashala which means a school.
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The Sanskrit Mantras from the standardized Puja Tri Sandya (त्रि संध्या पूजा) and Panca Sembah (पंच नमस्कार) which every Hindu in Indonesia learns and performs daily at school.
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"The oldest actual contact, as the Zagreb linguist Radoslav Katičić has pointed out in a recent colloquy dedicated to Indo-Yugoslav relations, is to be found in the primeval religion of the Slavs, which was by origin Indian, partly through Persian intermediation. However this fact, proven by the analysis of the expressions for deities, is common to all Slavonic people ".
"India and the Yugoslavs, a survey of the cultural links"
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Indonesian Hindus from Java and Bali meet at the 3rd Mahasabha Bhujangga Waishnava (General Assembly of Vaishnava Priests), Sanur, Bali (Indonesia). Bhujangga is the Javanese word for Hindu priests belonging to Javanese Hinduism.
Dance on pots with pots on the head.
Amazing Balinese Hindu Culture from Indonesia.
Amazing Balinese Hindu Culture from Indonesia.
Colorful Ram Lila (Ramayana) from Bali (Indonesia).
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Pura Gunung Raung, a Javanese Hindu temple near the holy volcano Gunung Raung (East Java, Indonesia), with a beautiful statue of Sage Markandeya, one of the most respected masters in Indonesian Hinduism.
A devout Indonesian Hindu family performing daily Agnihotra and Shiva Puja at home.
Devi Saraswati at the Temple Pura Buana Suci Saraswati, Ngaru-aru, Banyudono, Central Jawa (Indonesia)
Brave Hindus of Bali, a 1963 Photo Feature.
Worshiping Lord Shiva at the base of an active volcano just about to erupt. The eruption which took place 2 days after the completion of the Puja destroyed numerous villages and killed around 1500, but the Shiva temple Pura Besakih situated at the very base of the volcano and its worshipers remained completely safe.
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फटने जा रहे ज्वालामुखी की गोद में महाकाल की कालजयी पूजा।
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1200 year old deity of Bhagavan Rama at the Candi Prambanan Temple Complex, Yogyakarta, Jawa (Indonesia). The world-famous Prambanan temples are dedicated to the central trinity of Hinduism, viz. Bhagavan Brahma, Bhagavan Vishnu and Bhagavan Shiva, and their Vahanas, with the main central shrine being dedicated to Bhagavan Shiva.
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Ancient statues of Vedic Rishis near Yogyakarta, Jawa (Indonesia)
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An Ancient Hindu temple of Sumatra revived after more than 400 years:
Special Pujas being performed by leading Hindu Religious Leaders and High Priests at the Bumiayu Temple Complex, South Sumatra. Bumiayu is the only ancient Historical Hindu temple complex found in Sumatra, a land which was once ruled over by powerful Hindu and Buddhist dynasties and was known in Indian spiritual scriptures as Sumatra-Dvipa (सुमात्र-द्वीप). The Bumiayu temple complex was destroyed and buried...
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Puja in Sumatra (Indonesia).
Indonesian Hindu Family visiting a local Hindu temple in Indonesia.
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Hindu Temple Pura Agung Sriwijaya (श्रीविजय), Palembang, Sumatra (Indonesia).
Indonesian Hindu Ritual, Bali (Indonesia).
Indonesian Hindus at Hindu temple Pura Desa Air Talas, South Sumatra, Indonesia.
Hindu Temple on Mount Widodaren (विद्याध
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The Chedian shrine is just one of what historians believe may have been a network of more than a dozen Hindu temples built in Quanzhou by a community of Tamil traders who lived there during the Song (960-1279) and Yuan (1279-1368) dynasties.
Video by: Ananth Krishnan
Video by: Ananth Krishnan
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