Modi to take Rigveda to Chinese

Travelling around the world, Prime Minister Narendra Modi keeps campaigning yoga and Hinduism during his reign that Hinduism is not the religion but a way of life. Did he find ancient China as one of the key targets to propagate this with the Rigveda, an ancient Indian sacred collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns?

During his first visit to China last May, Modi opened Gandhian and Indian Studies Centre at Fudan University in Shanghai where Sanskrit is taught by a few Chinese teachers.

He decided to spread Hinduism to the Chinese community through Sanskrit which External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said that it can purify the minds of the people and thus sanctifies the whole world.

The first and foremost project of the centre, funded by the Indian government, is to translate the whole Rigveda. So far, the Rigveda has been translated into English and other European languages but not Chinese, spoken by around 16% of the world's population. In the future, the centre will translate other Vedic literature and Indian classical poetry represented by Kālidāsa.

The center will continue to promote the teaching of Sanskrit which RSS thinks sanctifies the whole world, including the rising superpower, China. The center will publish many books on Indian religious sects which are non-Islamic and non-Christian. Yoga is to be taken as another tool to propagate saffron spirit, as a part of the center’s agenda.

By the end of last year, there was no financial green signal for the development of this centre. According to some sources, this year the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) has given full support to propagate the Hindu ideology to the Chinese community through this centre.

The top brass of ICCR would visit the Indian centre by the end of this year and give lectures on Hinduism and Buddhism to the Chinese young scholars.

By:Koraba in Shanghai

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