Dear friends and fellow-"vedadhyAyin-s" of Kuwait, Below is a post that appeared in Srirangasri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx yesterday. Reading it will make us all really proud! The UNESCO has declared the Chanting of Vedas to be a priceless "intangible heritage" of the world! We as Vedic students, living and working here in a land outside India, are trying in our own humble way to learn Vedic chanting. We are indeed blessed! All the time and effort that we as a group have spent these past 2/3 years surely have been worthwhile! When we started, all of us indeed resolved rightly! We must understand that we have truly gained an "intangible" wealth of inestimable value... "veda-dhanam"! ... as even the UNESCO now seems to have recognized and attests! Let us all celebrate! We have every reason to! Regards, dAsan, Sudarshan > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:09:48 -0500 (EST) > From: "Shaasa A. Ruzicka" > <amritasyaputra@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: UNESCO Declares Vedic Chanting an > ?Intangible Heritage of Humanity" > > > UNESCO Declares Vedic Chanting an ?Intangible > Heritage of Humanity" > ********************************************* > http://pib.nic.in/archieve/lreleng/lyr2003/rnov2003/11112003/r1111200311.html > > PARIS, FRANCE, November 12, 2003: The oral tradition > of Vedic chanting has been declared an intangible > heritage of humanity by UNESCO. In a meeting of jury > members on November 7, 2003, at Paris, Mr. Koichiro > Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, declared the > chanting of Vedas in India an outstanding example of > heritage and form of cultural expressions. The > proclamation says that in the age of globalization > and modernization when cultural diversity is under > pressure, the preservation of oral tradition of > Vedic chanting, a unique cultural heritage, has > great significance. > The jury members included Dr. Richard Kurin, > Director of the Center for Folklore and Cultural > Heritage of the Smithsonian Institution (United > Nations), Mr. Juan Goytisolo, Writer (Spain), Mr. > Yoshikazu Hasegawa (Japan), Ms. Olive W.M. Lewin. > Pianist, ethnomusicologist, Director of the Jamaica > Orchestra for Youth (Jamaica). > The UNESCO declaration will bring international > recognition to the excellence of the Vedic chanting > tradition of India, which has survived for centuries > encoding the wisdom contained in the Vedas through > an extraordinary effort of memorization and through > elaborately worked out mnemonic methods. The purity > and fail-safe technique devised for Vedic chanting > in the olden days led to access to one of the > ancient literatures of humanity in its entirety > today. > The Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and > Culture, took the initiative to put up the > candidature of the Vedic chanting to UNESCO. A > presentation was prepared by Indira Gandhi National > Centre for Arts. The Department has also prepared a > five-year action plan to safeguard, protect, promote > and disseminate the oral tradition of Vedas in terms > of their uniqueness and distinctiveness, encourage > scholars and practitioners to preserve, revitalize > and promote their own branch of Vedic recitation as > the custodians of their own traditions and direct > the efforts primarily to making the tradition > survive in its own context. > -------- > ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Mobile: Download the latest polyphonic ringtones. Go to http://in.mobile.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/VkWolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Srirangasri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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