May 3, 2010

ANOTHER 12 PART FILM ON THE BUDDHA FROM ORISSA ?

Posted by The Himalayan Voice:
[Here we go again ! We have below today four contributions so far from a commentator, Akhil Kumar Sahoo, presumably from Orissa. He is in our contact list and is contributing comments to our discussion on the Buddha and Kapilavastu also. We found it interesting to post his thoughts here below.
He writes he has made a 12 part film on the Buddha. (We had lots of posts on The Buddha PBS documentary in March and April and received quite a number of comments also). He had in his email also suggested for an international conference on the Buddha sometime ago.(email follows)
We have posted his messages received in reply to our different posts. His ideas look completely different but interesting. He even says Kapilavastu can’t be found the way we are searching for it. We should try to find it different ways perhaps - he says. ( He proposes more than 30 different places). But everybody is talking of evidence.  Let’s hope he posts  preview of his film somewhere on the Youtube soon.]

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From: Akhil Kumar Sahoo
Date: Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: DEBATING KAPILVASTU; NEPAL AND INDIA SHOULD FORM A TEAM OF EXPERTS
To: The Himalayan Voice

Out of 12 part films , only Part-I & Part -IV films have been out. Part I film deals with the exact locations of the Kapilavastu as described by the Vamsa Gatha of Ceylon. I have shown the visuals. So, please wait to see it in TV channels. My intention is not to hurt your sentiments or to wound your nationalist feelings. I have shown the places as described in classical literatures of Burma, Tibet and Ceylon. Part-IV deals with the war between Kalinga and Ceylon. The two kingdom's relation and their war for alms bowl  of the Buddha and tooth relics has been detailed as per Vamsa gathas. The 4th Part will show the places where the Chinese Pilgrims stayed  and that will give everybody some sense on the birth place of the Buddha.

Akhil Kumar Sahoo,
Orissa, India

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From: Akhil Kumar Sahoo
Date: Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:46 AM
Subject: Re: DEBATING KAPILVASTU; NEPAL AND INDIA SHOULD FORM A TEAM OF EXPERTS
To: The Himalayan Voice   

I welcome your suggestion for forming of a team of experts to find out the truth and settle the historic issue once and for all. It is Himalayan idea, of course. The birth of the Buddha lives in the culture of the land where he was born.

The epics of the land also sing the glory of such a great event. Excavation is not a great thing. Wait! I shall show you more than thirty places where excavations should be taken up.

First see the 12 films on the Buddha I have made and then you raise your Himalayan voice. I have nothing to say. It is never meant to hurt your sentiment. And also it is not out of nationalistic feeling that I am putting this film before the world. It is an attempt to show the truth, as it exists unto this day.

Akhil Kumar Sahoo,
Orissa, India


From: The Himalayan Voice
Subject: DEBATING KAPILVASTU; NEPAL AND INDIA SHOULD FORM A TEAM OF EXPERTS
To:
Date: Saturday, 1 May, 2010, 2:52 PM

May 1, 2010

BOTH THE NEPALESE AND INDIAN GOVERNMENTS SHOULD FORM A TEAM OF EXPERTS FOR FURTHER EXACAVATION AND EXAMINATION OF KAPILVASTU

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The Himalayan Voice Team
Cambridge, Massachusetts
United States of America
http://www.thehimalayanvoice.blogspot.com/

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From: Akhil Kumar Sahoo
Date: Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: ON LOCATING THE LOST KINGDOM OF KAPILVASTU
To: The Himalayan Voice   

Read the books to convince yourself that no archaeological evidence obtained till date are correct. Whether it is Uttar Pradesh, India or elsewhere the facts are not conclusively drawn. Whatever has been said or written till today are more hypothetical in nature. Please read the books and you will know everything. Kapilavastu can not be found in the way others are searching for it.

We can not fight against each other to say that each one of us is correct. There are enough of evidence and you must look to them impartially and with the facts attached to the life of the Buddha.

You must know what Spencer has said long back even if he was refuted by other scholars of his time. If Buddha were born, the facts about his life must have been in some form or the other in the epics of this great land. He was completely correct.

Akhil Kumar Sahoo

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Akhil Kumar Sahoo wrote:

Thank you for sending your opinion to me. I would request you to kindly see my films in ten-parts. Read the books I have given in reference and then talk to me. Or arrange a gathering of all scholars around the world to meet in one place to quantify the objective views to reach at an end. Please first see the visuals. Try to relocate the differences through proof I have given in visuals in all the ten documentary films. Wait.

You must remember there is a defined geographical boundary of Kapilavastu which was in Madhyadesa. Again it was on Vyaggapatha. Can you show me 'Baku' where Sampaka after being driven out from Kapilavastu, raised his kingdom?

So, please wait, now you try to question the answer. Again it was on Vyaggapatha. Can you show me 'Baku' where Sampaka after being driven out from Kapilavastu, raised his kingdom? So, please wait, now you try to question the answer.


Akhil Kumar Sahoo