Indians, Episode 5: Nalanda and the Decline of Buddhism
By the early colonial period, Indians had even forgotten that a man called the Buddha had existed in their past! Only in the 19th century did Indians rediscover Nalanda and their amazing Buddhist heritage.
While supporters of anti-trans legislation often cite religious traditions as justification, other religious traditions have long accepted varied gender identities. Take Buddhism, for example
"The bad things, don't do them.
The good things, try to do them.
Try to purify, subdue your own mind.
That is the teaching of all buddhas." - #ThichNhatHanh
The #DiGA project is coming to an end, we are currently busy preparing the last batch of objects for publication. To give you a better sense of what we did in the project and what it looks like traveling to a small museum in #Pakistan to digitize a collection of ~1500 Buddhist sculptures, we made a short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvElg7B7kYQ Happy watching and please share if you like it! #CulturalHeritage#DigitalHumanities#Buddhism#BuddhistArt
"Handle even a single leaf of green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn allows the Buddha to manifest through the leaf."
~DOGEN
Archaeological sites like Keeladi have pushed back the rise of complex societies in south India to at least the 6th century BCE. In the late first millennium BCE, a ‘cultural package’ from Aryavarta began moving south. It would radically reshape the religions, languages, and social norms of south India...