Buddhist Cultural Tourism in Assam : Power Point Presentation in ICOMOS India platform
hello everyone good evening wishing you all a very warm welcome uh for the second session on connecting the dots season two our festivals and responsible tourism India and abroad which is organized by the national scientific Committee of cultural tourism nscct in collaboration with nsc's tangible cultural heritage and the historic towns and Villages e-commerce India I hope I am audible to all and perfectly clear yeah yes okay okay good look and he's trying to spread the humanitarian ideology globally so thank you so much Dr Sanjeev that was a wonderful presentation thanks for the two great videos um sorry we could not connect the audio but I think we'll work it out so you know in the next uh next sessions we don't have this issue again uh I I think we can now move on to our next speaker uh if anyone has any queries or questions for Dr Sanji please write them down in the chat box and we can take them up later uh our next speaker is an engineer dilip chankakoti uh he is a the Northeast Zone representative and is an engineer by profession uh he wears many hats he's a published author and is currently busy studying the 7th century and gesture scripture and a 17th century white star musical Rhythm scripture and he will be publishing the translation with commentaries of the same he has also published 30 papers on music and cultural subjects he was directly involved with icomos and the National Museum New Delhi since 1998 on the majuli project which is a River Island in Assam today he shall be talking to us about the Buddhist cultural tourism in Assam and the related festivals uh in detail so uh dilipchi please I will be sharing the screen now and let me know if it is visible to you and we can take it up from there okay go ahead yes this is about my title Pez yes next we have go to second base and the introduction the main object of Buddhist culture relativism are educational to to Place Monument and pilgrimage of Buddhist culture enjoy of Performing Art preparation of festival and other cultural events acquisition of knowledge of folklore and arts and others since ancient time there was a pilgrimage room from Kashmir to pragzutis the present guwahati that is present along the footage of Himalaya this room also connected Kashmir with garhwal umayon Nepal give bed and Bhutan Anga banga Kalinga magad and others there was probability a unique Council entity in the entire region and says refer it to as instinct in back to sister but another thing is Gang guns is the belief to be oldest Center of Hindu The Learning in this southwest of Himalaya this Center is also called sangrila by the buddhistam it is notable it is it is notable it is notable that this region also fall within the ultramagadi region not again that the well-known ancient Indian center of learning was the University of nalanda situated in this region there was another well known ancient Center of Learning University of Texas that is in the panchal my dhama region therefore the Himalayan region has been is an well-continued to be a point of attraction for wisdom Seeker for centuries the next side please next slide yes the NCM Buddhism place in Assam there are many ancient place or Benzene monuments and CN resources but we have now elaborate only six six these six ancient sites are a great mother temple in hazum guwahati mystical man then diaspora Village in nalbari the next slide please Redgrave temples It is believed Among The bhutanese Nepalese Tibetan Buddhists that maestro Padma sambhava this is Guru Temple and it then uh yeah the engineer in uh my colleague well uh engineer Manus Kumar does he have given me an information that he says that in his childhood he saw a member of royal bhutanese dragged into a dark and Idol fast near this Temple and it is just like our Hindu Ganesha and after that this Temple he described that this uh this is his Shiva some uh description in their scripture and as per description he have digging and discovered it and after that there is a temple-like structure they have met and it is now well known as a ganas temple of mahayagriva it is it is considered that the part of the secret geography parties put this the distance between hazu and guwahati is only 23 kilometers towards the Northeast next slide please this is Thomas kameka Temple and this Temple actually originally it is said that the originally of this Temple was a Buddhist temple and after that it is believed that it is a temple of Vishnu then finally it is uh believed that it is come to the gurus it is also said that in Brothers for the foothills of Himalaya with the goddess Tara the one of the goddess of kameka with bell and Brazil instrument he returned from the Kashmir to Bhutan and finally attained mahanira in his native place this is a very notable thing therefore no any unified there is foreign the next slide please this is Sri Sula Hills and then this actually a garden The Rock carving of Lord Buddha God is 25 granite stupa in different shapes and size or in this Souza Hills also some Zain um [Music] and also through the scriptures in this area it is 132 kilometer from guwahati towards uh towards the West mind it the 100 madhava and the Souza Hill in the North Bank of [Music] the next slide please mystical mind actually we have already done Mark webinar about full heaven so that you can go and search it in our eCommerce site at YouTube you have to die all details about my my own then now I have just uh for a uh for I give one simple Tera about the man the ancient time zuga was known among the nut Community as well as the Brahmin community means the whole kamloop country did not lives in the middle of the valley this is in both north uh South Bank and where probably Buddhist the main place of residence was Maya only rock of the Hills and next slide please next slide behind us uh this is my uh another very interesting uh subject I have done last five years in this Village this is where this is called please see that this is one brother there are two types of brother instruments that right hand type and the left hand is called rangili khati and see this this brother instrument is a disaster like Buddhist brother and we have this this is very significant then music which is the data back to the importance is accompanied by the costume sources the Brazil this is Burger Brothers Buddhism where it's just like that the uh Maestro up at this also where the same plot and same same type of uh yeah same type of plot of same type of uh this it is not only that this zagara song There is a song called [Music] mention goddess like Tara brazosini and others these goddess are also the deities of this Buddhist Buddhist Buddhism of this not came in Assam and his Maestro or his Guru is midnight and may not give him the spiritual knowledge and also give him that uh the knowledge of and returned to the command and this garwal Himalaya and he this the local people this and nowadays this is a famous foreign [Music] is originated in the Assam this this is performed in the atoman Durga Puja in a royal palace called Muhammad foreign [Music] Julia this circus is practicing in the uh kaihati raw money District and it is here in this dumb circus or the drama the sutodari dance puppet dance perias somersault funny acting Jokers and use the marks and others you have seen that it is it is said that this style of drama is very ancient and it is evolved into the dance and song now prevent Hindi Brothers this is again not that this is still used Assam the next slide please in the in the sector of literature there is a one-up Buddhist Buddhist songs speak this Buddhist Lama from the Nepal Bhutan and Tibet often visit our kameka temple in kambu that is in guwahati uh this says it is they have seen were composed Temple in effect in our close observation it has seen that the ragas and Melodies and some of burghit of Assam are similar to the scholarly the writers of soda again next slide please now we're going to the festivals of the Buddhists nowadays who I have seen Festival actually there are two two different foreign and this is traditional New Year Day it is that is they have put in a therapati Buddhist community and this is in a previous celebrity and this Festival celebrated by taifake community and it is celebrated in the last day of the whole year and a new days of the day they begin in the day after the end of the festival the next slide please this is boys sunken Festival it is made of April it is also called is also it is also called Water Festival this is just like uh the festive Water Festival of Thailand the main attraction of this Festival is splitting the clean water which is the symbol of please and Purity the celebrate take place in a tree connective days are taken out after uh the ceremony bath and the holy birth of the Buddha is a Spears even in the festival the position is accompanied by Gram dance and enjoyment during the celebration the local people makes homemade sweets and distribute them and exchange of gift item is also common trial in this Festival next slide please uh this is cyber Festival the discussion Festival actually [Music] is celebrated in the middle of October the catin and Festival is a visual of foreign crops to Buddhist monk in the winter in Assam the villagers especially the old men have begun the weaving plot actually they all men the villagers of their living described in whole life the morning they offer to the monks and just like that in a home uh royal family they have another thing that when the the Royal person go to the war the wife have with that plot in the whole life and give to the uh his uh husband so that he have returned safely cloth a private women take part in the rally getting a tea called calcuttoru tree this is artificial tree and hanging some money the process on stop in front of every village a villagers house household and they gave the blessing to the house the next slide please and it is celebrated in the middle of February the festival celebrated in a full moon day of Assamese Mount of bhaga then it is just like our mother that is just like that and this is a two-day Festival celebrated in February in the every year uh this is this is a traditional Buddhist festival and a colorful Festival the Indus Festival there is a uh photograph that there is a tall Messi it is about 4.5 to 6 meter height and this Messi is uh constructed by traditional art and culture flowers Etc then this is the mezzie was born just like uh we have done it Assamese Beauty Festival just like that the program of the festival is in a included the hosting of the world Buddhist flag then prayer Community faced and administration of Sheila and cultural functions religious uh religious this is called a religious discourse and sitting sitting in fire to the messy and the smoking among the other this is why it's a our offering to the guest next slide please this is part of the Buddhism and we have seen the um this is therapati are are secreted in the apparent in the most indeed our in Southern Bank foreign [Music] and the Southern Bank actually mainly enough they are terrible that these brothers only have brothers they are celebrated at the Buddha punima they have called it the sun Festival it's just like they have called they have pronounced in the Tibetan type that this this is in the Buddha Festival it is uh celebrated in the Buddha purnima they have called they have called the day this is the festival region is the festival they have prayed for the long life of the earth holy gurus but tradition [Music] it is also that they have survived and are spreading the good noticing among the uh among the peoples of uh uh peoples among the peoples another one the peace world peace and Buddha in this day Buddha devudis go to the monastery and the temples and pray for the world peace the next slide please next slide yeah this is so true that some Festival of Festival of miracle it is known as so far or the butter lamb Festival they have in the in the bar this is this Festival is celebrated in the 15 days of first month of a Tibetan calendar full moon days and here they have the butter collected from Buffalo and give them the sap the difference and this butter left are offered to be good and uh this is the main features of the this Festival and in the uh in the house in the Buddhist house they have also uh play some uh also like this and in the public place they have like it in this day the next slide please that this is the Festival of will of trauma this is the sub Festival the Festival of full of Dharma this uh this Festival is celebrated in the past week in the August and this is called we love Karma festival and the in the holidays some of the celebrate in making pilgrimage and making offering the Buddhas and it is it is a big opportunity to the reflect the path and the impection of Our Lives and the last Festival is a festival of The Descent of Heaven it is the festival where the four Buddhas it is the main Festival four Buddha festivals and it is it is celebrated in 22nd day of the ninth lunar month of and Buddhist Festival is observed in Buddha's December surely sense well From the Terrace Heaven down to the Earth the next slide please these are some adults uh collected in the Assam State Museum about this this address also from 4th century from first sensory to uh well 13th century then this is collected by our uh Our member gitanjali which you have collected it then next slide please this is the list of Buddhist temple monument and Bihar Assam there are 15 Bihar in guwahati and 70 out of the 70 numbers I have identified uh in Assam next slide we have seen a rich Library a million the tarawani in the terrible monasteries they have used the language the Thai language this is the language use them as it is from in the 30th centuries so it is very own language and this is used as as it is in the 13th century they are the South Asian countries are crime here to research it how can it is survive as well as it is from the 16 or 13th century and it is the very unique language they have used and many seminars in the upper Assam have religious seminar already held and they have many workshops countries mainly Thailand Cambodia Vietnam Etc then we have gone to that song Frozen uh of this presentation next slide please we have seen in the in this brief discussion that Buddhist cultural tourism is not full swing in Assam preparing map of educational tool is still pending there is a room of flow thorough scientific study of the mahasam and brothers should be rescued and documented like the terrawadis Buddhas temples monuments bihars mahagani or brothers and others also need to by the spread promotional worldwide widest paid promotion and production the practitioners about the effect about the protection promotion dissemination and the preservation of their intellectual properties critical and analytical uh musical development studies with this music have also been Timely but conducted by the literary or music expert this required special attention there is no special scientific research study for the mahajani painting in Assam this is must to be done then there are is a room of protection preservation and promotion of jagergate it is unresirable to keep this resource on the northeast India away from the world Assembly it is to the contexts it is essential to provide special facility to the tourist researchers students teachers predictivists and others to preserving all the backup information location Etc in task of a single button then another thing is in the point of leaves you can be request you to please this is only one pillar only one pillar yes the study of scripture study of scriptures conservations are an application of organic material including building technique building materials building tools and others from the perspective of architect or in a civil engineering is required then lastly bestos does not transport they are high very high level wisdom unless the help find the right Seekers usually a Seekers is not easily trust by the practitioners because he is not able to misuse knowledge or protect it due to dignity respect and hard work therefore most of the issues are kept secret this is the only way to acquire this knowledge if the right person possess a difficult task many of such signs have been practiced in this region since ancient time therefore these are very mysterious for the wisdom under then we have acknowledged in a books Sanskrit somebody next slide please foreign [Music] thank you thank you sir for the wonderful presentation uh I would like to specially thank Dr Sanji band engineer dilip sir despite network issues and you know unstable network you are able to present and uh it both presentations were great I think the first presentation uh gave us a good look into the indigenous tribes and their festivals over there and dilip search presentation showed a different light on the Buddhist cultural tourism and the Buddhist communities and their celebrations and I think we also got to learn a lot of proper pronunciations and Assamese from both of you um and yeah and it's great to see that the lipsa's work and sanjeebsa's work is also informing each other's research where they're also crediting each other you know with the you know acknowledgments so a great knowledge sharing is happening here it was great to see this thank you so much Dr Sanjeev and uh let's move on to the last and the third uh presentation for today by Dr Harvin bandar
2023-05-27 07:25
