Buddha and Yoga can bring India China closer – Tarun Vijay at Sichuan university, China

17th June 2019, Chengdu – Shri. Tarun Vijay,  RSS thinker and former BJP MP said at a Sichuan university speech before Senior professors and students that it is culture that unites people and more people to people contact through track two diplomacy between two great civilizations is the need of the hour. He said that Mr Narendra Modi has emerged as the great leader of our times who has popularized Yoga for a better, healthier planet and strengthened cultural threads like never before.

He said that Chinese scholars have begun understanding the RSS and BJP through vigorous academic interactions and it is a positive sign of the changing times. It will be better if the ideological belief of the new India’s leaders expressed through the writings of Pt Deendayal Upadhyaya’s Integral Humanism and Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s Cultural Nationalism is also studied to understand New India, he said. You cant know the emerging India without understanding the ideological roots of those who are leading this historic change, he emphasized.

Chinese thinkers must study Pt Deendayal Upadhyaya and Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee to understand the new changes occurring in India under Prime Minister Modi ‘s leadership. He said that he will gift literature on Upadhyaya and Mookerjee to Sichuan University’s library.

Mr Tarun Vijay, Chairman of the CII-India China Forum, had headed India China Parliamentary Group in the Parliament House for two years. He was also Member, India China Eminent Persons Group appointed by the President of India.

He was speaking on ‘India China Cultural Relations, organized by the highly reputed Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) at Sichuan University. The executive director of the ISAS Prof (Ms) Li Tao welcomed him and assured to have the works of ideological acharyas of the BJP leaders added to the library for the benefit of researchers.

He said that cultural nationalism and Integral Humanism, that speaks for the last man’s progress ( Antyodaya) are the main sources of civilizational inspiration of the BJP within the constitutional framework of the republic.

Mr Tarun Vijay spoke at length on ancient cultural relations between two countries and said since ages spiritual monks like Kumarajiva , Bodhidharma, Kashyap, Matanga from India and Xuanzang and Fa-hsien from China laid the foundations of a cultural, civilizational relation that has provided the strongest ever base for friendship. Modern India has seen Tagore as the greatest cultural ambassador for India China relations, who’s legacy was been taken up by a great Chinese scholar from Santi Niketan, Professor Tan YunShan and his illustrious son Prof Tan Chung ( recipient of Padma Bhushan).

Though Indian text books have lessons on Chinese travelers to India, it will be good if Chinese schools too teach life stories of Indian monks who brought Buddhism to China.

Executive Director of the ISAS Prof Li Tao and Director of the Centre for South Asia Studies, Sichuan University Mr Liu Jia Wei welcomed Mr Tarun Vijay and offered the active participation of their centre in the Mandarin version of Mr Narendra Modi’s biography , authored by Mr Tarun Vijay.

Mr Tarun Vijay said that the new book will be containing Modi-1.0 achievements, foreign policy , economic reforms, and his personal work style that has endeared him to the millions across the globe. It will also have a separate chapter of Indian electoral scene, and Modi-2.0 agenda as seen by the people.