The house for many ancient monasteries as the birthplace of Buddhism, India gained the influx of Tibetans in the 1950s, which has established many new institutions, but now it wants to insulate religious learning from China’s influence.
“We are trying to enhance Indian identity through Buddhism as well as education to ensure that China can never control our monasteries in the Himalayas,” said Maling Gombu, a Buddhist activist of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
“Thousands of children living in distance monasteries are worth India recognized by India and certified education,” said one of the teams promoting Indian Buddhist traditions and national education in Arunachal Pradesh.
The border state is claimed by China, but New Delhi rejects it.
Around 600 monasteries provide training in four types of Tibetan and Indian Buddhist traditions in the regions of Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
They also teach modern themes and English, but courses lack stability outside a national education effort, aimed at welding an overlapping identity from the patchwork of India’s languages ââand religions.
Rajiv Kumar Singh, director of the National Institute of Open School Education of the Ministry of Education, said, “Non-religious education taught by monks or nuns is not accepted outside the monasteries.”
Singh, who has worked on a new course, implemented an attempt to evaluate a five -year evaluation, said it expects to prepare Indian and Tibetan students for educational life in India.
“They (Tibetans) are free to learn Tibetan history and their tradition, but they should learn about India because they live here and require proper education to secure jobs outside the monasteries.”
A government document reviewed by Reuters has revealed that 20 monasteries have agreed to adopt new courses near the 3,000 km (1,860-mile) border with China, the rest to be phased later in the year.
Need more time
Officials said that the authorities personally interacted with the monasteries to take the syllabus, they also need time to print new textbooks and find teachers for employees, in the most populous areas, officials said.
But in some monasteries, monks, such as the Gonte Garden Rabigi Linga in Arunachal Pradesh, say their curriculum focuses on Buddhist philosophy, with modern education, carefully cuisted to meet the needs of children who can become preachers.
Geshe Dondup, a religious teacher at the house of about 300 students this year, said, “We don’t think there is a need to introduce the government-transport course in our monastery as it can break the rhythm designed since the 1970s.”
Thousands of Tibetans sought asylum in India, where his spiritual leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dalai Lama, ran as Chinese soldiers as the rebellion was attempted in his motherland in 1959.
Around 75,000 Tibetan refugees now live in settlements managed by the Dalai Lama’s Sarkar-in-Xil, Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), which directly controls the monasteries, although not out of the Tibetan tradition.
Reuters reviewed the first batch of textbooks prepared by the Ministry of Education officials and Indian Buddhist scholars in the modern and ancient history of India, and in the role of a country in the freedom struggle of Tibet.
In addition to compulsory studies in English, Hindi and indigenous Bhoti languages ââin the texts, emphasis has also been laid on mathematics, science and computer training.
CTA Education Minister, Thulam Dolma, said that the schools of the monastery have historically managed by monks and nuns based on their funding, and CTA has a lack of governance rights on them. An official in the Dalai Lama’s office did not comment.
Bharat will start giving money to the monasteries, for decades with the help of foreign aid by various sects of Buddhism, to recruit teachers, to give stipend to monks and pave the way for annual examinations.
In its attempt to unite school programs, a court compulsorily banned Islamic schools in India’s most populous state in March last year, stating that he violated constitutional secularism and ordered students to move to traditional schools.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, an official of the Ministry of Home Affairs said that education in monasteries in remote strategic areas was part of a major plan to close religious institutions under the influence of China.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Home Affairs did not respond to the email seeking remarks.
Last year, Asian giants began opening a military deadlock at their disputed border as in 2020, two dozen soldiers were killed by clashes, but India aims to spend more to develop border areas, which were in relations between slow melting.
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