Battling the Buddha of Love

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Marie Falcone
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Tibetan Buddhism ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Rural India ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Buddha ◽  
Resistance Movement

This ethnography explores the controversial plans and practices of the Maitreya Project, as they worked to build the “world's tallest statue” as a multi-million dollar “gift” to India. This effort entailed a plan to forcibly acquire hundreds of acres of occupied land for the statue park in the Kushinagar area of Uttar Pradesh. The Buddhist statue planners ran into obstacle after obstacle, including a full-scale grassroots resistance movement of Indian farmers working to “Save the Land.” In telling the “life story” of the proposed statue, the book sheds light on the aspirations, values and practices of both the Buddhists who worked to construct the statue, as well as the Indian farmer-activists who tirelessly protested against it. Since the majority of the supporters of the Maitreya Project statue are “non-heritage” practitioners to Tibetan Buddhism, the book narrates the spectacular collision of cultural values between small agriculturalists in rural India and transnational Buddhists from around the world. The book endeavors to show the cultural logics at work on both sides of the controversy. Thus, this ethnography of a future statue of the Maitreya Buddha—himself the “future Buddha”—is a story about divergent, competing visions of Kushinagar’s potential futures.

scholarly journals The role of the Riga Latvian Society in the life of students and graduates of the Riga Polytechnicum / Riga Polytechnic Institute (1862–1919)

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 24-44
Author(s):  
Alīda Zigmunde ◽  
Maija Pozemkovska
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
National Development ◽  
Polytechnic Institute ◽  
150Th Anniversary ◽  
Poor Students ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

The Riga Latvian Society (RLS) is the oldest Latvian organization in the world, where students, graduates and academic staff from oldest universities in the territory of Latvia – the Riga Polytechnicum (RP), from 1896 – the Riga Polytechnic Institute (RPI), had worked. The activities of the Society and its members have been diverse and varied, and their results are different, too. The heritage preserved for the future is books compiled and translated by Latvians that are well-known folk historical and cultural values, and new educated, patriotic generations of Latvians. Poor students were supported as much as possible, enabling them to achieve their chosen goals and contribute to Latvia’s economic and national development, culture and education. The 150th anniversary of the RLS, the collaboration of the Society with the RP / RPI students, graduates and academic staff until 1919, has been studied.

scholarly journals Issue and Challenges of Adopting Contraception Methods by Men and Women in Rural Uttar Pradesh

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 155-159
Keyword(s):  
Related Problem ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
Rural India ◽  
Occupational Structure ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Related

India stand second in the world in terms of population containing 17.50% of the world’s population. 70% population of India lives in village in which 64 % population’s occupational structure is primary. Due to this, so many problems are creating and increasing daily like unemployment, health related problem, starvation and poverty etc. To solve or rid from these problems, Government of India committed itself or started to bring about the sustainable development in rural India through various programs. The aim of these programs has to cover all the facts of rural life for improving the life of three- fourth of Indian who lives in the villages. But family planning and adopting contraception methods are so easier than others, and population or other population related problems can be control easily. In this paper we describe many issue and challenges spread in the society. There are main social, political and economic etc. Issues and challenges to adopting the contraception method among the people.

Świadek historii... w stulecie odzyskania Niepodległości... – z Ireną Wojnar rozmawia Adam Fijałkowski („Kwartalnik Pedagogiczny”)

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (4(250)) ◽  
pp. 289-302
Author(s):  
Irena Wojnar ◽  
Adam Fijałkowski
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Nazi Occupation ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Personal Consciousness ◽  
Post War ◽  
The University ◽  
Civic Duties

Editor in Chief of “The Pedagogical Quarterly” discourses with Irena Wojnar, employed at the University of Warsaw since early post-war time. Her intellectual evolution (l’âge où l’on grandit) occurs in changing dramatic periods of our history, optimism of elementary school before the World War II, painful time of clandestine education during the Nazi occupation in Warsaw, hopes and illusions of the post-war epoch. In these periods, the essential inspirations for Irena Wojnar were successive books of Bogdan Suchodolski, with symbolic titles: Love life – be valiant (2nd ed. 1930), Whence and where are we going to? (1943) and Education for the future (1947). In the Polish school before the WWII, pupils were educated in the spirit of patriotism and civic duties, sensibility to the surrounding world and the service of humans. Tragic heroism of the WWII became the proof of those values. In the conditions of constant aggressive and permanent threat, quasi “against the night”, the fight with the occupant becomes the essential moral duty. For young people, pupils and students, when secondary and tertiary schools were closed by the Nazis, this duty signified participation in clandestine education supporting hope to preserve future order in the world and preparation of the future activity in the free Poland after the WWII. The end of the WWII created a chance for the future shape of the world in line with our humanistic values. It was the period of the reconstruction of Warsaw, destroyed during the WWII, becoming a city of “sorrow and dreams”. In the final part of the conversation there appears the general opinion that every individual life–story, beyond its individual aspects, reveals a more general educational idea. Human life runs across destiny and personal consciousness. Independently of our destiny, we have a chance to choose values important for us, to realise the “poetics of the self” (poétique du soi) based on our capacity to overcome own limitations and to increase goodness in the world.

scholarly journals DAMPAK TRADISI BEGAWE MERARIK TERHADAP SOSIAL EKONOMI MASYARAKAT ISLAM SASAK DI KOTA MATARAM

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-126
Author(s):  
Saprudin Saprudin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Moral Problem ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Foreign Tourism ◽  
The Government ◽  
Lombok Island

Tradition and culture are unique, sometimes like iron steel which absorbs the attractiveness and charm of the world of foreign tourism, but also sometimes has a moral problem. But judging by the preservation of the purity of cultural values, the pride of traditional traditions is important to preserve. Likewise, the begawe tradition draws on what is happening in the Sasak Muslim community on Lombok Island, which must be saved from the influence of global modernization that oppresses the purity values ​​of local culture. The lack of attention and concern of the government towards the begawe merarik tradition also determines the continuation of the traditional customs and culture of the Sasak community in the future.

Representation, Accountability, and Collaborative Border Crossings

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richa Nagar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
The United States ◽  
Muslim Woman ◽  
Border Crossings ◽  
The Future ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

This chapter is a revised version of an article originally written between 2002 and 2003 in consultation with Farah Ali (an alias) and what was then called the Sangtin Samooh, or Sangtin women's collective, of Sitapur District in India. It argues for a postcolonial and transnational feminist praxis that focuses on (a) conceptualizing and implementing collaborative efforts that insist on crossing difficult borders; (b) the sites, strategies, and skills deployed to produce such collaborations; and (c) the specific processes through which such collaborations might find their form, content, and meaning. To ground this discussion, it draws on two collaborative initiatives that the author undertook in Uttar Pradesh—the first with “Farah Ali,” a Muslim woman who shared her life story in the aftermath of 9/11 with an explicit aim of reentering the United States with her daughter; the second with members of the Mahila Samakhya Programme in Sitapur, who were beginning to imagine the future of the organization, Sangtin. The chapter ends with a poem that confronts the limits of critique that academics undertake.

The Chinese View of Their Place in the World: An Historical Perspective

1973 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 67-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Cranmer-Byng
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Recent Theory ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Chinese View

The object of this article is to examine changing Chinese attitudes to their place in the world from a Chinese historical and intellectual perspective, in order to provide a basis for anticipating developments in the future attuned more to a Chinese than to a western point of view. The question immediately arises whether such a perspective is in any way relevant to the recent theory and practice of international relations in the People's Republic of China, and what insights, if any, such a perspective may provide for discussing the future. This is a controversial subject concerned with the nature of cultural change, and the extent to which " imprinting" from a long continuity of accepted social and cultural values can psychologically condition people even after a decisive break in that tradition appears to have occurred.

LOCAL WISDOM AND CULTURAL VALUES IN AL-AZHAR TAFSIR

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Husnel Anwar ◽  
Mhd. Roihan Nasution ◽  
Muhammad Doli Zamzami Siregar
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

<p><strong>Abstract </strong><strong></strong></p><p>The problem of this research is how can the local cultural values in Al-Azhar Tafsir. The purpose of this research is knowing local culture values in Al-Azhar Tafsir and analyzing the purpose of HAMKA putting local cultural values ini Al-Azhar Tafsir. The method of this research is library research and uses a study approach of character studies and<em>content analytics. </em>Researchers found that HAMKA's attitude was divided into two in linking local cultural values in Al Azhar's Tafsir. First, wanting to preserve local cultural values such as Aphorism, Verse, Poetry, Parable, Pameo and others. The second, strongly opposed and warned people of traditions that were contrary to Islamic Shari'a such as "adorig sea", giving offerings and others. And among the main objectives of HAMKA to include local cultural values was to approach Islamic da'wah to Indonesian people through local cultural values in its interpretation. And also introduce to the world of readers about Malay identity and Local Wisdom. And it also contained an invitation to noble morals as Religion and Culture motivate it and there were also politic and ethical politic invitations because at the time of writing this interpretation, the Indonesian political atmosphere was currently unstable. Therefore, it is very good to make Al Azhar's Tafsir become one of the references in preaching Islam on this Malay Earth and hopefully in the future there will be a Ilmiyah Figure and Study that combines Islamic Sharia and Local Cultural Values in a fair and balanced way.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Keyword</strong><strong>s</strong><strong>: </strong>Local Wisdom, Values and Al-Azhar Tafsir<strong></strong></p>

Buddha Images and Place

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela S. Chiu
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Special Places ◽  
The Buddha ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Distinctive Role

Certain Lanna chronicles recount that the Buddha visited southeast Asia during his lifetime. He left strands of his hair and imprints of his feet for his devotees and made predictions about the future greatness of Lanna cities. These accounts depict Lanna places not as sites of Buddhist conquest or reform but as special places that through the ages have been sources of attraction and inspiration to multiple Buddhas. Lanna’s towns, lakes and hills play a distinctive role in Buddhist history as the channels that enable the ongoing agency of Buddhas. Buddha statues were created in these places to mark these channels that are crucial to the prosperity of the world. The relationship of Buddha to place echoes that depicted in classical Buddhist texts and is also found in the story of the Burmese Mahāmuni image. A Lanna story from Lampang also distinctively casts light on gender relations in Buddhism.

Scapegoat for the Buddha

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reiko Ohnuma
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
The World ◽  
The Buddha

The first of three chapters examining animal characters within the life-story of the Buddha, this chapter focuses on the horse Kanthaka, who helps the bodhisattva (the buddha-to-be) renounce the world by carrying him away from his palace and kingdom in the middle of the night (an episode known as the Great Departure). The chapter argues that Kanthaka serves as a scapegoat for the bodhisattva—for at the beginning of the episode, the two figures are closely identified with each other, yet once the bodhisattva has renounced the world, it is Kanthaka who returns to the kingdom and bears the brunt of the emotional reactions of the bodhisattva’s loved ones. In the process, Kanthaka loses his life, and the narrative as a whole makes use of a sacrificial idiom that might be compared to the Vedic aśvamedha, or horse sacrifice.

scholarly journals MENGKRITISI MODEL KONSELING BERBASIS BUDAYA NUSANTARA: MODEL KIPAS

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Zulfikar Zulfikar ◽  
Zubaidah Zubaidah
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Guidance Services ◽  
New Model ◽  
Eastern Culture ◽  
Model Based ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Many ◽  
Counseling Model

The presence of the KIPAS model is an effort to strengthen the dignity of Indonesian counselors and counselors who have been oriented towards western culture. Western culture which is clearly incompatible with our culture, Nusantara culture which adheres to eastern culture. The attraction of the BK Model KIPAS is the use of cultural values as the basis for implementing BK services, thus giving rise to an enlightenment in the implementation of BK services in the archipelago. This gives an enthusiasm and hope that the idea of a counseling model based on this archipelago culture will be accepted now and especially in the future. The model is an acronym for KIPAS, which is intensive and progressive counseling that is adaptive to structure. The existence of the KIPAS model will be able to answer problems that occur such as the many unresolved student problems and improvements to the image of BK in society. So far, we have seen that the implementation of counseling guidance services in schools in Indonesia has become something students dislike. As a new model in the world of BK, of course it cannot be separated from the strengths or strengths and weaknesses or weaknesses of the KIPAS model itself. The KIPAS model should accommodate all cultures in Indonesia from Sabang to Merauke.

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