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INDIA
AND ITS “SOFT POWER” - BUDDHISM

As the Sino-Indian battle for influence
in East and South-east Asia intensifies, India is backing its
political and economic diplomacy with soft power diplomacy.

To counter China's efforts to keep
India out of the region on the grounds that is an “outsider”,
India is drawing attention to its solid Buddhist credentials.

Buddhism originated in India around the
5th century BC.

But after flourishing here for many
centuries, it declined in the land of its birth.

However, it spread across Asia, in such
countries as Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam,
Laos, Cambodia, Japan, Korea, Tibet, Mongolia and China .

Buddhist monks travelled far to spread
the religion

Scholars came to India to study at its
universities.

There was a healthy exchange of ideas,
of philosophic, religious and cultural traditions right from ancient
times. The impact of this interaction and exchange can be seen and
felt to date across Asia.

It is this shared Buddhist heritage
that Delhi is now emphasizing in its engagements with East and
South-east Asia.

“China has sought to keep India out
of regional arrangements in South-east Asia by portraying India as an
outsider. By underlining the multi-millennia-old bond of Buddhism
that it shares with these regions, India is quietly clarifying that
is not a gatecrasher,” said an official in India's Ministry of
External Affairs.

The Buddha came approximately five
hundred years before Christ.

He gave the Four Noble Truths, which
satisfactorily and eternally answer man's demand of “why”.

These Truths are: The Buddha taught
that misery and suffering were of man's own making, and that the
focussing of human desire upon the undesirable, the ephemeral and the
material, was the cause of all despair, all hatred and
competition...the Buddha came embodying in Himself the divine quality
of wisdom.

Peace and harmony in the East and
South-east Asia are rooted in Buddhist Light and Love. Both India
and China share this ancient wisdom, may this reality prevents
future clashes for the leadership in this area of the world. The
“Noble Middle Way” between opponents!

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