Buddhist Culture in Japan

By Sona Kanti Barua

Buddhist Culture in Japan

There are thirteen Buddhist sects in Japan. They are: The Kegon (the Avatamsaka school), the Ritsh (the Vinaya school), the Hosso (the Dharma – Laksna school), the Tendai, the Shingon (Tantric Buddhism of Charyapada, Bangladesh), the Jodo, the Jodo – shin, the Yuzunenbutsu, the Ji, the Rinzai, there were three others, namely, the Sanron (the Three sastra school of Madhyamika), the Kusha (the Abhidharma kosa school) and Zen Buddhism or the Jojitsu (the Satyasiddhi sastra school), they are more or less extinct and have little independent influence.  Chinese Buddhist sects are sources of Japanese Buddhist sects.  Tantric Buddhism (Sahajiya Buddhism of Charyapada) was founded by Great monk Kukai (774 to 835) who was the founder of modern Japanese alphabets. 

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HISTORY OF RELIGIOUS CANCER & UNIVERSAL LOVE

Author: Sona Kanti Barua

In India religious politics became a cancer in human relations and human rights affairs. God Rama birth land (Janam bhumi), delusion poison everything in India. There is no delusion (hatred and greed) in any true religion. In the name of God Rama delusion, Hindu political power took over Buddhagaya many years ago and destroyed the Babri Mosque dated December 6, 1992 to establish the God Rama’s temple. Are Hindu God (Brahma) and Islamic Allah different in the Allah Upanisad?  Durga Puja was copied from the Bodhisattva Tara Devi of Buddhism and the auspicious Puja day comes in making Goddess Durga and her family.   Bodhi Tree (at Buddhagaya, Bihar) was destroyed by Hindu king Sasanka (630 A. D) and Hindu authors have written the Allah Upanisad during the reign of Emperor Akbar. At that time Hindu rulers were accepted that God is one.  The Rig Veda reports, “Lord Krishna’s first generation came from abroad (1/36/8). According to the Bhagavat (10/24/23) Lord Krisna prohibited the Indra worship relating to interests of power between both of them.  Several Hindu people think that Lord Krisna is the only man and they are sleeping with the statue of Krisna as their husband. 

Muslims and Buddhists won’t forget ‘betrayal’ by Hindu Rulers in India:

Hindu political system took over Buddhagaya and Buddhism and it is imposition of Hindu Vedic culture and religion on the other communities (i. e. the Babri Masjid felled by Hindu fanatical rulers ),  in the name of Hindu God Ram as a “National” figure. India alone came to take over the Mahabodhi Temple of  Buddhagaya and many peace loving people understood it as ‘a betrayal of the nation’ and as “ a national shame.” The debate soon turned on what the Indian Constitution means by secularism, communalism and nationalism.

Buddhists and Muslims

Brahmanism and its Vedic God delusion of King INDRA poison everything in Indus civilization cities of Mohenjodaro and Harappa to destroy Pre-historical Buddhism. God Indra- whatever Hindus perceive him, he should be punished for his crimes against humanity.  Brahmanism was started in India (South Asia) with hatred of caste –system to destroy the non-violence heritage of Buddhism. Ariyan king Indra (1600 B.C.) destroyed Pre-historical Buddhism as former Buddhas and archaeological evidences are recorded in his famous book entitled “Buddhism:The Religion of Mohenjodaro and Harappa Cities by Swapan Kumar Biswas” West Bengal, Calcutta.

Gautam Buddha is the father of Indian civilization: 

Buddha Gauthama

According to Buddhism peace loving people wish “May all beings be happy.” But Aryan Vedic King Indra destroyed pre-historic Buddhism and took over Mohenzodaro and Harappa according to the Rig Veda (10/86/23, 8/6/46 (for money and security Vedic saints prayed to King Indra 1/105/8 & 10/33/2).   All the Vedic ancient texts are quite ignored about the numerous Buddhas whose names are recorded in the Buddhist texts ( Buddhavamsa, Buddha charita, Lalita Vistra and several discourses of the Buddha).  Relating to the Lord Buddha’s universal theory of dependent origination or ‘Paticca samuppada’ today’s students may discover the conventional (only lokiya, not the spiritual or super-natural) similarities in the findings of Galileo and Copernicus.

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Jamat Misuses Islam in Bangladesh

Author: Sona Kanti Barua

Muslims fundamentalists (Taliaban, Al-quida, Mujaheedin etc) copied violence from the Brahmin and Hindu fundamentalists and let us see what happens in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. Pakistan, Bangladesh and India’s minority and peace loving Muslim people are appealing to the world conscience, world mass media and the United Nations for security in their homelands. The Jamaitul Mujahideen group calls for the establishment of an Islamic caliphate in Bangladesh while nation’s worst fears came true when the nation stood terrorized as set of off 400 bombs on August 17, 2005. So, Al – Qaeda Group suspect in Bali and Bangladesh Terror explosion. Buddhists all over the world have been shocked in January 1985 upon reading the news of the outrage at Borobudur Bombing in Indonesia.  Al-Qaeda and Taliban regimes destroyed two historic Great Buddha statues: one measuring 53 metres and the second one 48 metres in central Bamiyan province of Afghanistan in February 2001. So the 9/11 of the U.S.A. did not come without warning. Several of decades old Bangladesh state-sponsored campaign of blatant discrimination and barbaric atrocities against Bangladesh’s religious and ethnic minorities turned into one of religious and ethnic cleansing or genocide. Great poet Rabindranath Tagore encouraged us, “Fear not comes the message the direction of the rising Sun, those that will give life to the last throb; will diminish not, never.” But Holy Qur’an declared, “You can not abuse other religion. (6 : 106)” Even the Qur’an warned, “No religious place should be demolished.(22 : 38).” During the 10^th and 11^th centuries, Buddhism in South Asia was eclipsed by Islamic invaders.

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History and development of Linguistic

Modern historical linguistics dates from the late 18th century and grew out of the earlier discipline of philology, the study of ancient texts and documents, which goes back to antiquity.

At first historical linguistics was comparative linguistics and mainly concerned with establishing language families and the reconstruction of prehistoric proto-languages, using the comparative method and internal reconstruction. The focus was on the well-known Indo-European languages, many of which had long written histories. But since then, significant comparative linguistic work has been done on the Uralic languages, Austronesia languages and various families of Native American languages, among many others. Comparative linguistics is now, however, only a part of a more broadly conceived discipline of historical linguistics. For the Indo-European languages comparative study is now a highly specialized field and most research is being carried out on the subsequent development of these languages, particularly the development of the modern standard varieties.

Some scholars have undertaken studies attempting to establish super-families, linking for example Indo-European, Uralic and other families into Nostratic. These attempts have not been accepted widely because the information necessary to establish relatedness becomes less available as the time depth is increased. The time-depth of linguistic methods is limited because of chance word resemblances and varies between language groups, but a limit of around 10,000 years is often assumed. The dating of the various proto-languages is also difficult. Several methods are available for this but only approximate results can be obtained.

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