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Fa-Hien’s Views on India

Fa-hien Fa-hien (337-c.422 AD) was the first Chinese Buddhist pilgrim to leave an account of his travels to Central Asia, India and Sri Lanka. The name of this monk may correctly be pronounced as Faxian but is also written as Fa-hsien. A native of sanxi (Shansi), he left home at the tender age of three to join the Buddhist Samha. After his novitiate, Fa-hien wanted to go to India to search for the treatises of the Vinaya Pitaka, the monastic rules of buddhism . He departed for India in 399 AD. Travelling through Central Asia and Northwest India, Fa-hien reached northern India and then visited the holy Buddhist sites located in the Ganges valley: Kapilavastu, the birthplace of Buddha; Bodhgaya, the site of Buddha's enlightenment; Sarnath, where Buddha preached his first sermon, and Kusinagara, the place of Buddha's nirvana. He spent much of his time visiting and describing mid-India or Magadha. Fa-hien did not visit peninsular India, and left India by sea ...

Features of Mauryan Sculpture, Mauryan palaces Arts & Stupa

Sculpture & Architecture It is in this age, ( Mauryan ) that we first come across architecture and Sculpture in stone and that too one of the finest. Some of the sculpture associated with the Mauryan court are A polished fragment of a monolithic railing at Sarnath. The vajrasana ( throne of meditation) at the Mahabodhi temple at Bodh Gaya is a large stone slab under the Bodhi Tree. The 16.5 cm thick Vajrasana is made of Chunar sandstone . Its top surface is decorated with a carved geometric pattern that looks like intersecting circles. On the side are carved floral palmette designs and geese(hamsas) in a styles similar to that of the carving on the Ashokan capitals. Dhauli (Bhubaneshwar district, orissa), there is a rock sculpture of the front part of an elephant. His heavy trunk curls gracefully inwards. His right front leg is slightly tilted and the ...

Mauryan Empire Art & Architecture

Mauryan Art The earliest and most characteristic specimens of Indian art are those of the Indus valley and of the Mauryan . Of the 84000 stupas built by Ashoka and the royal palace and other Buddhist structures, nothing has survived accept the remains of a few stupas, some pillars, some capitals and the cave dwellings of Barabar. Many pillared Hall & Stupas, Chaityas The ruins of a hall with 100 pillars excavated at ancient pataliputra speaks volumes about the splendors of the Royal palace, which was marvelled at by the Chinese and Greek travellers. Dr. Spooner writes about this many pillared Hall "Marvellous preservation of the ancient wood, whose edges were so perfect that the very lines of jointure were indistinguishable, evoked admiration of all, who witnessed the experiment. The whole was built with precision and reasoned care that could not possibly be excelled today." Stupas other architectural Marvels of ...

Really ayurvedic medicine is good?

Ayurvedic Medicine Ayurvedic Medicine ancient Hindu art of medicine for the treatment of various diseases. At the time of the British conquest, India's medical system incorporated Ayurvedic, Unani, Siddha as well as folk medicines of different kinds. Ayurvedic practitioners or the kavirajas in 19th century Bengal generally belonged to high caste Hindu families and were well-versed in Sanskrit. Because of the social taboos of orthodox Hindu society devout Brahmins and widows would not touch allopathic medicine and relied on medicine prepared by Ayurvedic practitioners. There prevailed a personal bond between the kabirajas and their patients. Apart from diagnosing illness, the practitioners would advise a patient on the proper diet and other activities or norms to be observed during the intake of medicine. The kaviraja would only give medicines prepared by himself or under his supervision to ensure the purity of ingredients and observance of proper methods of preparation. ...

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