Via PTI
KOLKATA: The Kolkata airport used to be awash with red-ochre gowns as high-ranking priests from the ‘Land of the Thunder Dragon’ arrived in Kolkata Tuesday on a non secular and educational excursion of India, from the place Guru Padmasambhava travelled to show Buddhism to Bhutan.
The 24-member delegation will talk over with Buddhist holy websites, the Infosys campus at Hyderabad in addition to meet most sensible Indian officers in Delhi.
“It’s the responsibility of each and every member of the Sangha (Buddhist monastic order) to check out to observe within the footsteps of the Buddha,” Venerable Ugen Namgyal, the secretary of the Central Monastic Frame of Bhutan, informed PTI, explaining why the robust delegation is on a talk over with to the rustic.
The World Buddhist Confederation (IBC) in coordination with the Central Monastic Frame of Bhutan has organised the eight-day lengthy commute for the priests who head the Buddhist Sangha in every of the districts within the picturesque Himalayan kingdom, which lies sandwiched between India’s West Bengal and China’s Tibetan self reliant area.
Bhutan is understood for its Buddhist tradition, the place folks’s lives nonetheless revolve across the traditions related to the faith.
Prayer flags fluttering within the wind and chortens (Buddist shrines) in each and every village are a not unusual sight. The concept that of ‘Gross Nationwide Happiness’ as a construction type for the dominion nestled within the excessive Himalayas too is based largely in this distinctive tradition.
“We now have two massive neighbours on two facets, however with India, we now have a stupendous dating. Buddhism got here from this nation. Bengal, our instant neighbour, has sturdy linkages with us and has contributed to Buddhism in our Kingdom,” stated Ven. Namgyal.
Guru Tilopa is thought to have travelled to Bhutan from Bengal preaching the Vajrayana college of Buddhism.
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Maximum Bhutanese observe the Drukpa subsect of the Kargyupa sect of Vajrayana Buddhism.
The priests, led through IBC’s deputy secretary-general Venerable Jang Chup Choden and Ven Namgyal, will talk over with more than a few Buddhist websites in India, together with the Nagarjuna Konda in Andhra Pradesh, Buddhavanam in Telangana and Sankissa in Uttar Pradesh.
‘Zhung Dratshang’ or the Central Monastic Frame of Bhutan used to be established in 1620.
The unification of the rustic, codification of the rules, and organisational construction of the twin machine of governance came about most effective after the status quo of this important establishment.
Consistent with Bhutan’s Charter, the ‘Zhung Dratshang’ is an self reliant establishment, financed through an annual grant from the royal govt.
“For us, Buddhism is a lifestyle. Even our arts and structure mirror our non secular traditions,” he stated.
“Whilst China too is a neighbour, we now have little interplay with that nation. Being Buddhist, Bhutanese have a better affinity to Indian values,” the monk stated.
KOLKATA: The Kolkata airport used to be awash with red-ochre gowns as high-ranking priests from the ‘Land of the Thunder Dragon’ arrived in Kolkata Tuesday on a non secular and educational excursion of India, from the place Guru Padmasambhava travelled to show Buddhism to Bhutan.
The 24-member delegation will talk over with Buddhist holy websites, the Infosys campus at Hyderabad in addition to meet most sensible Indian officers in Delhi.
“It’s the responsibility of each and every member of the Sangha (Buddhist monastic order) to check out to observe within the footsteps of the Buddha,” Venerable Ugen Namgyal, the secretary of the Central Monastic Frame of Bhutan, informed PTI, explaining why the robust delegation is on a talk over with to the rustic.
The World Buddhist Confederation (IBC) in coordination with the Central Monastic Frame of Bhutan has organised the eight-day lengthy commute for the priests who head the Buddhist Sangha in every of the districts within the picturesque Himalayan kingdom, which lies sandwiched between India’s West Bengal and China’s Tibetan self reliant area.
Bhutan is understood for its Buddhist tradition, the place folks’s lives nonetheless revolve across the traditions related to the faith.
Prayer flags fluttering within the wind and chortens (Buddist shrines) in each and every village are a not unusual sight. The concept that of ‘Gross Nationwide Happiness’ as a construction type for the dominion nestled within the excessive Himalayas too is based largely in this distinctive tradition.
“We now have two massive neighbours on two facets, however with India, we now have a stupendous dating. Buddhism got here from this nation. Bengal, our instant neighbour, has sturdy linkages with us and has contributed to Buddhism in our Kingdom,” stated Ven. Namgyal.
Guru Tilopa is thought to have travelled to Bhutan from Bengal preaching the Vajrayana college of Buddhism.
ALSO READ | Develop into a Buddha
Maximum Bhutanese observe the Drukpa subsect of the Kargyupa sect of Vajrayana Buddhism.
The priests, led through IBC’s deputy secretary-general Venerable Jang Chup Choden and Ven Namgyal, will talk over with more than a few Buddhist websites in India, together with the Nagarjuna Konda in Andhra Pradesh, Buddhavanam in Telangana and Sankissa in Uttar Pradesh.
‘Zhung Dratshang’ or the Central Monastic Frame of Bhutan used to be established in 1620.
The unification of the rustic, codification of the rules, and organisational construction of the twin machine of governance came about most effective after the status quo of this important establishment.
Consistent with Bhutan’s Charter, the ‘Zhung Dratshang’ is an self reliant establishment, financed through an annual grant from the royal govt.
“For us, Buddhism is a lifestyle. Even our arts and structure mirror our non secular traditions,” he stated.
“Whilst China too is a neighbour, we now have little interplay with that nation. Being Buddhist, Bhutanese have a better affinity to Indian values,” the monk stated.