"Sspoken Sanskrit from Chinese Film " Youtube video shared on Twitter

[Nagaraj Paturi]

https://youtu.be/VZG4TBacO1o

The tweet says :

A Chinese film's rendition of Nalanda outclasses any Bollywood interpretation of ancient India I've seen. The epic yet graceful Sanskrit, wondrous architecture balanced with cinematography, and most importantly, unapologetic Dharma

[Madhav Deshpande]

Thank you Nagaraj Ji for sharing this video. Just now watched it. So beautiful.

Madhav M. Deshpande

Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies

Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]

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[Krishna Kumar Pillalamarri]

Thank you sir, for sharing this video. It is even more stark now as to how badly Bollywood, media and general public have slipped in representing the real view of our classical educational institutions, and have misled people. It also shows a happy intermingling of chinese and Indians. Makes me nostalgic.

Best Regards,

Krishna

Krishna Kumar Pillalamarri
Ph-Cell: 408-373-9273

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 8:06 PM Nagaraj Paturi <nagara...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Madhav Deshpande]

Dear Nagaraj Ji,

     Yesterday, I watched this entire 2 hour film, and liked it very much. I had read the account of Xuan Zang's travels in translation, but this film makes his journey and experiences so visually vivid. Like his travels from China to India, numerous Indian Buddhist teachers traveled to China, Tibet and some evidently as far as Japan. However, we do not have any descriptions of their travels available to us.  I am wondering if there are any examples from pre-modern India of Indians traveling abroad and writing down their travel experiences.  

Madhav M. Deshpande

Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies

Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 8:06 PM Nagaraj Paturi <nagara...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Nagaraj Paturi]

>  I am wondering if there are any examples from pre-modern India of Indians traveling abroad and writing down their travel experiences. 

there are examples from pre-modern India of Indians traveling abroad  

" writing down their travel experiences " is doubtful. 

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Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.

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BoS, MIT School of Vedic Sciences, Pune, Maharashtra

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[Nagaraj Paturi]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhidharma

Several contemporary popular traditions also exist regarding Bodhidharma's origins. An Indian tradition regards Bodhidharma to be the third son of a Pallava king from Kanchipuram.^{[12][note 3]} This is consistent with the Southeast Asian traditions which also describe Bodhidharma as a former South Indian Tamil prince who had awakened his kundalini and renounced royal life to become a monk.^[14] The Tibetan version similarly characterises him as a dark-skinned siddha from South India.^[15] Conversely, the Japanese tradition generally regards Bodhidharma as Persian.^{[web 1]}

There is no travelogue in the following :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhidharma#Works_attributed_to_Bodhidharma

• Two Entrances and Four Practices,《二入四行論》
• The Bloodstream sermon《血脈論》
• Dharma Teaching of Pacifying the Mind《安心法門》
• Treatise on Realizing the Nature《悟性論》
• Bodhidharma Treatise《達摩論》
• Refuting Signs Treatise 《破相論》(a.k.a. Contemplation of Mind Treatise《觀心論》)
• Two Types of Entrance《二種入》

 

[venkat veeraraghavan]

au contraire...

The Ramayana of Valmiki is one such documents Rama, Sita and Lakshmana travel to different lands, there is mention of Sugreeva's peregrinations to avoid Vali. 

The Mahabharata has brief accounts of Arjuna's wars of conquest all the way to the borders of the legendary lands of Shambhala.

A lot of these accounts are very brief in treatment, sparse of details that delight the annalist's heart.

And then there is Bhogar's accounts of his travels to China.

and the Pallava prince's travel to Shaolin....the one who was called Bodhi dharma...

I am sure there are many many more such accounts.

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[venkat veeraraghavan]

Padmasambhava in Tibet is yet another....:)

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