Lokesh Chandra

Samarkand—the famous city with Buddhist and Sanskrit roots now hosts the SCO summit

Samarkand was once a great centre of Buddhism and Sanskrit learning. It lay on the trade route from India via…

2 years ago

How China preserved India’s cultural brilliance in Far history—Part 2

<p> In Part-1 of his <a href="http://article/" target="_blank">article</a>  Prof. Lokesh Chandra explains how a powerful cultural connection between the two ancient civilizations—India…

2 years ago

How China preserved India’s cultural brilliance in Far history—Part 1

<p> Father, Prof. Raghu Vira studied Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London in 1928. He was…

2 years ago

India and China: Cultural osmosis between two towering civilizations—Part 2

<p> <em>(<a href="https://www.indianarrative.com/opinion-news/india-and-china-towering-cultural-osmosis-between-two-ancient-civilizations-part-185935.html">In part one, published yesterday</a>, Prof. Chandra explains how India and China have shared more than two millennia…

2 years ago

India and China: Towering cultural osmosis between two ancient civilizations—Part 1

<p> <em>India and China have shared more than two millennia of cultural interflow, and joined in the quest of ageless…

2 years ago