> > >>Universities inUS &China are getting lessons on human values from >>the great epic - Ramayana >> >>[In Secular India Ramayana and Mahabharata are communal] >> >> >>AHMEDABAD: Students at universities in China are getting lessons on human values from the great Hindu >>epic - Ramayana. >> >> >> >>Wise sayings from Valmiki's text are being adapted by the universities teaching Hindi in China and are being >>made relevant to the current world situations. At least six leading universities in China including the prestigious >>Peking University, the Beijing Foreign Studies Universityas well as colleges in different parts of China are >>teaching Hindi, which has become a popular foreign language in China. >> >> >>"We are taught verses from Ramayana as part of literature classes at the university," said Eric Huidram, >>a student-turned Chinese translator and interpreter from Manipur. >> >> >>Several universities in the US have included reading the Ramayana as part of comparative >>humanities and literature sessions on Asia. >> >> >>It was through the efforts of Chinese indologist Ji Xianlin that manyChinese learnt the language of >>Sanskrit and the epic Ramayana. Ji, who founded the Department of Eastern Languagesat Peking >>University, translated Ramayana from the original Sanskrit to Chinese in poetry form. Ji's translated work >>of Ramayana and Mahabharata will be displayed at the culture park being planned at Kailash Mansarovar >>by India China Economic and Cultural Council (ICEC). >> >> >>"The Chinese version of Ramayana will be kept in a library at the park for visitors and researchers to read. >>We will also run it in the in-house television at the culture park," said Jagat Shah, convenor, Kailash Mansarovar >>Cultural Park and chairman, ICEC-Gujarat. The project is being handled by Shah from his office in Ahmedabad. >> >> >>Besides a library, the cultural park will have a museum, a research lab for studying the geographic impacts >>and the changes that have occurred in Kailash Mansarovar over a period of time, a language centre to learn >>about and share different cultures and religions and an information centre. >> >> >>At a recent summit to discuss about logistics of the park, ICEC also invited people who have already visited >>Kailash Mansarovar to understand the journeyfrom the pilgrims' point of view. >> >> >>http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/To-learn-Hindi-Chinese-turn-to-Ramayana/articleshow/16961092.cms#write >> >> >> >> >>veegopalji >>[courtesy: Mr Sudhir Srinivasan] >> > >