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To kennethennyson

The indo-sino war is relate to the indo-pak war because all these wars happened in indian territory e.g indo-pak wars were fought rann of kutch, kashmir, and part of punjab. Indo-sino war fought in assam, Ladkh (aski chin) and so on. Assam definitely Indian territory (indo-sino war) and punjab + rajasthan definitely Indian territory. So common thing is a attack on undisputed Indian territory.

NPOV

Greetings. I agree that there was a problem before, but the current Kalaripayattu article is pretty neutral, so I took the tag off and placed a "controversial" tag on the article's talk page.

Just generally, I'm pretty sure that there was a pan-Eurasian culture set in the Neolithic and early bronze age, but we can only infer it, there is no way to really prove it. As well, there, IMO, isn't any way to prove that KP is the origin of Chinese martial arts. Confucius in the Analects mentions martial training. Qin Shi Huangdi's Terra Cotta Army even had a few statues in kung fu poses, which date from the 3rd century BC, probably 2-300 years before the introduction of Buddhism, and 600 years before Ta Mo. There we have it. Fire Star 04:42, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

sign your comments

Dear Kenneth,

As you are never LOGIN to do EDITS please use following to sign your comments

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kennethtennyson (talk · contribs)

Hi,

  I just want to let you know some informations. There is a literary proof that an Indian monk (from SouthIndia) travelled towards East, visited some countries and then finally setteled in China. It was common in India for saints or monks to learn Yoga. There is also a belief that the monk was a heir of Pallava King. The South Indian Kings were highly trained with the martial arts. 
  Kalari is not the only art in SouthIndia, there are other martialarts, called VerumKai Sandai, VarmaKalai, Silambattam, VajraMusti, etc. The South Indian martial arts says that a warrior should be trained with 18 types of weapons. A heir of King, who is eligible to throne or not will be trained with the martial arts from his childhood by an 'Aasan'. There is one more proof regarding this...
  Everyone should have heard about King RajaRajaChola - The Great(1), his elder brother AdithyaKarikalan was assassinated by 3 assassins. These assassins were great martialartists, they killed him to avenge their King's (VeeraPandyan) death. There is a proof that they have escaped from RajaRaja Cholan and they went to China because they have a contact in China. I have 2 of thems name one is 'Parameshwaran' and other guy's name is 'Ravidasan', some years later few of their friends also went to the same place to join them. There is a litrery proof for this incident.

interesting controversy

Agree with your assessment; however, I don't know if it is worth all of this controversy. I've never heard of kalaripayattu and it seems like more of a Dance than anything else. Steelhead 29 June 2005 20:38 (UTC)

Buddhists

Kenneth, why don't you become the founding member of Category:Buddhist Wikipedians? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 05:53, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

shuai jiao

chinese wrestling Shuai chiao - has connections to history sites

Bodhidharma

I'm a lapsed Buddhist AND a history buff : )

JFD 21:56, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

I don't suppose you know of the source for giving Bodhidharma's birthdate as 440?

The later sources that identify Bodhidharma as South Indian all take their lead from Tan Lin, whose probably composed his account at roughly the same time that Yang Xuanzhi was composing his. As a first or second generation lineage descendant of Bodhidharma, Tan Lin probably knew Bodhidharma better than Yang, who met him in passing only twice. I could be more conclusive if we knew more about Tan Lin.

And with regard to Persian Buddhists, didn't the Sassanid Empire crack down harshly on Persians who converted from Zoroastrianism to other religions? Or was that just Christianity?

JFD 09:00, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

So check this out. Dao Xuan's account of Bodhidharma's death is under the entry for Hui Ke, not Bodhidharma. According to Dao Xuan, Bodhidharma need only die before 534, the end of the Northern Wei, when Hui Ke moves from Luoyang to Ye.

The 528 date is only necessary if you insist on dating Bodhidharma's death to the mass execution at Heyin.

Of course, according to the chronology provided by the Zutangji, Bodhidharma must have died sometime after 536.

I'll tie the discrepant dates to the various sources.

JFD 06:00, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

I tried to address the conflicts by presenting the information by source rather than redacting them all into a single narrative. The 527 arrival date in China comes from the Zutangji and the Jingde chuandenglu, which is largely taken from the Zutangji, i.e. the last two texts, which means that the primary source for the 528 death date is either Tan Lin or the Xu gaoseng zhuan. I'll put up a bleg for a source on Talk:Bodhidharma.

According to the Broughton (p. 55), Dao Xuan takes the age of Bodhidharma (150) from Yang Xuanzhi, so I'm going to remove the clause that says there's a discrepancy between the two.

JFD 04:50, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the correction.

Just a couple of things:

# Which text dates Bodhidharma's death to 528?

# If Dao Xuan takes his figure for Bodhidharma's age from Yang Xuanzhi, shouldn't they give identical ages at death?

I won't do any edits on this stuff until we clear this up.

Thanks.

JFD 04:17, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Turkic Peoples

Hi, Please check the article revision history again, carefully... Those weren't my additions...! In fact, all I did so far today was throw a couple of his more far fetched sentences out, like the one claiming the Elamites were Turkish!... The whole thing (that someone else added) will need to be checked in more detail, and much of it will probably have to be reincorporated or discarded... Regards, Codex Sinaiticus 07:06, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Kalarippayattu

Some troll on the Kalarippayattu page is saying we're the same guy.
JFD 01:53, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Hello again, Kenneth. I saw your edits to Kalarippayattu and just wanted to explain the reasoning behind my own edits.

The earliest reference to kalarippayattu occurs in A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Duarte Barbosa, indicating that kalarippayattu had already developed by this time.

Phillip B. Zarrilli, a professor at the University of Exeter and one of the few Western authorities on kalaripayattu, estimates that kalarippayattu dates back to at least the 12th century CE.

The historian Elamkulam Kunjan Pillai hypothesizes that kalarippayattu was a product of battles between the Cheras and the Cholas during the 11th century.

For me, the above stuff is key because each of these statements cites its source and is verifiable.

This theory was reiterated by later writers without question. Today, as the concept of the war has been questioned and rejected, the theory of the origin of Kalarippayattu during this war has lost its ground.

This stuff I took out because it needs to be attributed. Which later writers? Who has questioned and rejected the concept of a Chera-Chola war?

As stated earlier, the oldest suggested existence of Kalaripayattu date back to the 13th century CE.

I prefer to let Zarrilli, Pillai, and Barbosa speak for themselves.

The earliest recorded evidence of Kalaripayyattu date from Portuguese descriptions during the latter 16th-17th centuries and becoming less prominent after the British outlawed it during the 18th and 19th centuries CE. It has recently been reinvigorated in the last few decades due to the general worldwide interest in martial arts.

Referring to Portuguese descriptions becomes redundant with the specific citation of Barbosa. As for the rest, I've never encountered claims of a ban under the Raj. Can we get a cite on that?
JFD 06:55, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

I believe that the citations above actually came from Zarilli's work and he cited other authors. I don't believe that current historians believe that the Chera and Chola war ever existed. As for the redundancy I can rewrite what i've written. The ban under the Raj is in Zarilli's text and I believe that I've read it in other descriptions of kalaripayattu's history. Kennethtennyson

Turkic Peoples Again

Love your work on the page! Thanks for your trouble. Lao Wai 18:49, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Well I am not sure quite how to take that message, but I think I am going to think positive and say, sure, no worries, a pleasure. It got really screwed up didn't it? Lao Wai 18:26, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Tatars Images

Hi! I'd added some images that contain Tatar residents in national clothes. But who is a singer? I'm a native Tatarstan resident, but I'd never seen her! --Untifler 17:36, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

• It is important, is she a Tatar really? Sometimes western residents use word Tatar to sign another peoples, such as Siberian peoples. As for Tatar professional singing, it is popular only in Tatarstan, the only place where Tatar singers use to record their CDs--Untifler 21:49, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Hi! Some information about Crimean Tatars isn't placed in this article. By common points of view, nomade Crimean Scythians and Sarmat people also was ancestors of Crimean Tatars (the admixture of Indoeuropeans could be see in their facial structure) --Untifler 21:22, 30 August 2005 (UTC)