India To Open Centre For Ancient Medicine, Yoga In China
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Set up by an Indian Yoga teacher Mohan Singh Bhandari and his Chinese journalist wife Yin Yan, Yogi Yoga so far has trained about 10,000 Yoga teachers all over China.
It is being organised as part of the year long 'Glimpses of India Festival' currently being organised all over China to showcase a wide range of events including Indian performing art, visual and photographic exhibitions, Indian modern art, food and film festivals.
A similar workshop was organised earlier in Shanghai.
Early this month, India held its biggest Yoga Summit at Dali in China in which over 5000 people participated.
According to the recently released Encyclopedia of Cultural Contacts between two Asian giants tracing back to centuries, ancient India not only gifted Buddhism to China but also its precious Ayurvedic medicines which became part of the Chinese milieu.
"Buddhism reached China in the 2nd century CE via Silk Route. Soon there was a regular flow of Buddhist monks between India and China", the two volume document jointly developed by scholars of India and China said.
"Chinese monks visited India for pilgrimage and also to collect canonical works. Buddhism thrived in China during the Tang Dynasty and the number of Buddhist monasteries and temples increased Rapidly," it said.
The Chinese techniques of acupuncture and pulse examination gained ground in India around the same time.
