Interesting how Ram is depicted by the writer as anti-Shudra and anti-tribal despite the fact that he ate Shabri's partly eaten food and had support and friendship of trubals (Vaanars) to win his war against Raavan.It is true that glorifying Golden Age of Indian civilization without mentions
Rajen-da,I guess you are right when you compare with the Buddha ideal - that all humans have equal potential - and that message does get lost when you say that some people have more potential and aptitudein priestly matters and others have more in warrior like or governance matters and others
Hindu Press International [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Hindu Press International [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:43:38 -1000To: undisclosed-recipients:;Subject: HPI, March 24, 2006 March 24, 2006 California Board of Education Proceeds With Textbook Revisions
something on importance of teacher quality - in an article by Prof Reimers which he sant to us a week back but i saw it today - I think it is from one of his books -and is based on research in Mexico. Those who wish to see the full article I havea PDF file of 200KB" The concern with
The difference between Hinduism and
Buddhism is what they are higlighting.
Hindusim is highlighting the
inequalityloud and clear, inequality in potential, quality, gunas,
inequaliity of the caste system, different duties of different castes, one's
duty to do his duty according to his caste
The way they write headlines is misleading.http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=65045The main quote is that one IIM-A student who chose IIM-a over foreign MBA said that IIM-A is equal to Cardiff . Incidently one of the students of Jaipur School had managed to get into the one
Title: Remember These?
Somewhat accidentally, I ran into these exchanges in assamnet
from 2002.
Remember these ?
cm
Disclaimer to Ram: It is not intended for Bamun-bashing Ram :-).
Just to show that these are arguments from desi-intellectuals!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alnane/message/26
Rajen-da,I again repeat that you are perpetuating the wrong notion that Guna is equal to birthright. Human beings are inherently distint from each other - and that each should rise to his or her own potential. Moreover Gita says that not only humans but even animals have souls. It is
--- Rajib Das [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here are a few questions. Hopefully you guys can
answer:
many of the questions you ask can be encapsulated into
why am i a hindu? i leave those questions alone,
because those are personal questions which every man
has to answer for himself. i am
I would say that all these questions are meaningless unless you wish to find a solution -- within Hinduism -- to remove casteism. Why would one wish to dwell on something which has turned out to be evil -- unless one wants to remove that. Second, if the contention is that since caste system as
As we are discussing religions, I thought netters may be interested in what Weber has to say about Caste and atheism in Budhhhism. He has an interesting take.
http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/irenik/relkultur50.htm
--Ram
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It is very difficult to summarize
what exactly is his point.
It is one of those articles which
makes lot of noise but does not make any sound.
RB
- Original Message -
From:
Ram Sarangapani
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Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 3:39
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Dear Barua,
I sent in the article because it seems Weber has almost contradictory views on Buddhism than those often discussed here. In fact, I was surprised too at some of Weber's analyses and views.
In certain places, the article also claims that Buddha and Buddism was very much caste
C'da,
Disclaimer to Ram: It is not intended for Bamun-bashing Ram :-).
No such disclaimer needed. I saw the stuff by PN Oak. All I know about him was that we were forced to know of him (famous historian) at middle or high school. His views so seem to be a streatch.
But its like anything else :
Ram:
There are many aspects of such statements. First we
donot know where from Weber was takingthese quotes. Second we donot know
what exactly Buddha's quotes were and what were there tone and
meaning.
However the most important thing is that many
outsiders, and most Indians, make a
umesh sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Rajen-da,I think you do not know the history of Buddhism either except what it existed in India and Tibet perhaps. I saw lots of artifacts and statues etc of Chinese and Japanese Buddhists -- shwoing what a pantheistic religion it has turned out to be.
http://ia.rediff.com/movies/2006/mar/28irvin.htm?q=mpfile=.htmWHat about making Assam's tourist spots as striking as those of Rajasthan -as this guy finds them?Till 1980s noone except Satyajit Ray made any movie or saw any beauty in Rajasthan's deserts. Ray's Sonar Kila (Golden fort) was
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:20861757~pagePK:64257043~piPK:437376~theSitePK:4607,00.htmlUmesh Sharma5121 Lackawanna STCollege Park, MD 20740 1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone]Ed.M. - International Education PolicyHarvard Graduate School of Education,Harvard University,Class
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