Many old hostile relationships with India-China. The rivalry between these neighbors, including border and trade, is increasing day by day. As part of this, India is going to change the education system of the Himalayas near the China border. According to a news agency Reuters report, India has taken initiative to consolidate the education activities of Buddhist monasteries this month and 'awaken patriotism'.
India is the home of many ancient monastery as the birthplace of Buddhism. Many new institutions were formed here in the 8th decade, but now India is trying to 'free the influence of China' to religious education.
Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir and the northern states of Ladakh trained about four types of Tibetan and Indian Buddhist traditions. Modern topics and English are also taught in these monasteries. However, the curriculum that is followed is not compatible with the overall India. In India, the education program that is being followed to build national identity regardless of language, religion and culture is not found.
“We are trying to educate Buddhism in addition to the education of Buddhism, so that China cannot control the Himalayan monasteries,” said Maling Gombu, a Buddhist activist of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Gombu, a member of the Indian Buddhist tradition and national education party in Arunachal Pradesh, said, “Thousands of children living in these monasteries and studying in these monasteries need to be recognized and certified education by India.”
China claims its border state, though New Delhi has denied this claim.
Rajiv Kumar Singh, director of the National Institute of Open Schooling of the Ministry of Education, said that the monks or monks in the monastery are not consistent with the recognized education outside the religious education.
Rajiv Kumar Singh, who is working on the new curriculum of the monastery, said, “Indian and Tibetan students will be prepared for Indian education activities.” They (Tibetans) are learning the history and heritage of Tibet, but since they are living here, they should know about India, and in the future, proper education is needed to take place in the workplace outside the monastery. '
According to a government document, Reuters reports that the 20 monasteries located within the area of 4,000 km on the border have agreed to adopt the new curriculum and the rest will move later this year.
Officials said that even though the curriculum was discussed individually to create the curriculum, it would take a long time to print new textbooks and appoint new teachers in monasteries. Because most of the schools are located in the public area. However, the monks of some monasteries like the Garden Robgie Ling Math in Arunachal Pradesh demanded that their curriculum be created carefully by focusing on modern education as well as Buddhist philosophy, so that they could be missionaries.
“We do not think the text guidelines directed by the government in our monastery are needed in our monastery.” Because, it can break the practice of the sixties. '
Thousands of Tibetan fled to India, including spiritual leaders and Nobel laureate Dalai Lam in peace after suppressing Chinese troops in the 5th. At present, the exile government of Dalai Lama lives in the settlement of the Central Tibet administration (CTA). CTA directly controls some monasteries, but not the monasteries outside the Tibetan tradition.
Reviewing the new textbooks that the officials of the Ministry of Education and Indian Buddhist scholars have created together for the monasteries, Reuters reports that the books highlight their role in India's modern and ancient history and Tibet's independence war. Books emphasize compulsory study in English, Hindi and local votes as well as mathematics, science and computer training.
CTA Education Minister Thalam Dolma said that the schools of the monastery historically were governed by the monk-monk-monks on their financing.
However, when contacted by an officer at the Dalai Lama's office, he declined to comment.
India will start funding the hosts for decades by foreign financing and various communities of Buddhism, the recruitment of teachers, providing scholarships to monks and providing funds for the annual examination.
An Home Ministry official, who did not want to be named, said the plan was planned as part of a greater plan to alienate the educational activities of the border strategic areas from the influence of China.
When contacted by Reuters, a spokesman for the Home Ministry did not respond to the e-mail.
Two Asia's two superpowers have begun work to eliminate the military stagnation created after the death of more than 20 troops in the border clash in 2021. However, the development of the relationship is slow, but India's goal is to expend more expenditure on the development of border areas.
