Universities in US & China are getting lessons on human values from the great epic - Ramayana
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Universities in US & China are getting lessons on human values from the great epic - Ramayana
[In Secular India Ramayana and Mahabharata are communal]
AHMEDABAD: Students at universities in China are getting lessons on human values from the great Hindu epic - Ramayana.
Wise
sayings from Valmiki's text are being adapted by the universities
teaching Hindi in China and are being made relevant to the current world
situations. At least six leading universities in China including the
prestigious Peking University, the Beijing Foreign Studies University as well as colleges in different parts of China are teaching Hindi, which has become a popular foreign language in China.
"We are taught verses from Ramayana as part of literature classes at the university," said Eric Huidram, a student-turned Chinese translator and interpreter from Manipur.
Several
universities in the US have included reading the Ramayana as part of
comparative humanities and literature sessions on Asia.
It was through the efforts of Chinese indologist Ji Xianlin that many Chinese learnt the language of Sanskrit and the epic Ramayana. Ji, who founded the Department of Eastern Languages
at Peking University, translated Ramayana from the original Sanskrit to
Chinese in poetry form. Ji's translated work of Ramayana and
Mahabharata will be displayed at the culture park being planned at
Kailash Mansarovar by India China Economic and Cultural Council (ICEC).
"The
Chinese version of Ramayana will be kept in a library at the park for
visitors and researchers to read. We will also run it in the in-house
television at the culture park," said Jagat Shah, convenor, Kailash
Mansarovar Cultural Park and chairman, ICEC-Gujarat. The project is
being handled by Shah from his office in Ahmedabad.
Besides
a library, the cultural park will have a museum, a research lab for
studying the geographic impacts and the changes that have occurred in
Kailash Mansarovar over a period of time, a language centre to learn
about and share different cultures and religions and an information
centre.
At
a recent summit to discuss about logistics of the park, ICEC also
invited people who have already visited Kailash Mansarovar to understand
the journey from the pilgrims' point of view.
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