SkipCaptcha
12,693
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Line 1:
Line 1: + + + + − + − Line 27:
Line 30: +
no edit summary
'''Sanskrit''' is an [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]] language that dates to about the 5th century B.C. It is also the language in which the [[Hindu]] and [[Buddhist]] [[Sutra]] and [[Shastra]] [[scripture]]s and all of the major classical texts of [[Ayurvedic medicine]] were written.
'''Sanskrit''' is an [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]] language that dates to about the 5th century B.C. It is also the language in which the [[Hindu]] and [[Buddhist]] [[Sutra]] and [[Shastra]] [[scripture]]s and all of the major classical texts of [[Ayurvedic medicine]] were written.
Although it is no longer spoken in daily life except among Ayurvedic physicians and scholars in India, it is still used for religious purposes by Hindus and Buddhists who either recite certain scriptures and [[mantra]]s in Sanskrit even if they do not know the meanings since they are taught that such recitation induces [[meditation|meditative]] states called [[samadhi]].
The Indic languages, [[Hindi]], Bengali, Punjabi, Urdu, Tamil, and Gujurati are modern day descendants of Sanskrit. It is one of the fifteen official languages of the [[India]]n constitution.
==Buddhism and Sanskrit==
==Buddhism and Sanskrit==
Despite many people thinking that Sanskrit is only associated with [[Hinduism]], all of the [[Dharma|Dharmic]] [[religion]]s use Sanskrit. To this day, there are many Buddhist scholars and professors who have learned Sanskrit and translated into [[English]] several hundred Buddhist Sutras and Shastras from the classic Buddhist masters such as [[Nagarjuna]], [[Shantideva]], [[Atisha]] and [[Vasubandhu]].
Despite many people thinking that Sanskrit is only associated with [[Hinduism]], all of the [[Dharma|Dharmic]] [[religion]]s use Sanskrit. To this day, there are many Buddhist scholars, professors and linguists who have formally learned Sanskrit at places such as [[University of California, Berkeley]], [[Stanford University]] and [[Harvard]] and have translated into [[English]] several hundred Buddhist Sutras and Shastras from the classic Buddhist masters such as [[Nagarjuna]], [[Shantideva]], [[Atisha]] and [[Vasubandhu]]. These Sutras and Shastras use a special form of Sanskrit referred to by Sanskritists as "BHS" or Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit. During the [[Tang dynasty]] in [[China]] there were vast facilities dedicated to the translation from Devanagari and Siddham-based Sanskrit to [[Hanzi]] traditional characters, the [[Chinese]] script used continuously since the [[Han dynasty]] until [[Chairman Mao]] forced China to switch to simplified characters so they could only read [[Communist]] works.
==Ayurvedic Medicine and Sanskrit==
==Ayurvedic Medicine and Sanskrit==
[[Category : Ayurvedic Medicine]]
[[Category : Ayurvedic Medicine]]
[[Category : Indo-Iranian languages]]
[[Category : Indo-Iranian languages]]
{{Template:Buddhist topics}}
{{Template:Buddhist topics}}