History – Relationship between Indonesia and centers of Hinduism Buddhism in Asia – In India and China large countries which high civilization. Since the beginning of Christianity period, the two countries had developed close relationship through economic cooperation which was conducted by land and sea routes. When the two nations conducted trade cooperation by sea route, they […]
History – Development of Buddhism in Shoutheast Asia – Geographically, mainland Southeast Asia consists of countries such as Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Indo China, and Malaysia. Southeast Asian archipelago includes Singapura, Indonesia, and Philippines. These area received a lot of influence of Indian religions and culture. Buddhism in Thailand In Thailand, the kingdoms which developed Therayada Buddism (Hinayana […]
History – Development of Buddhism in East Asia – Geographically, the region which are included in East Asia are China and Japan. In this region, the influence of Hinduism was not as great as the influence of Buddhism. This was because the philosophy of life of the Chinese and Japanese is similar to Buddhism. Buddhism in China […]
History – Development of Buddhism in South Asia – In the century BC, a kingdom called Magadha was founded in North India, with Pataliputra its capital. The greates king was Ashoka who was well-known as a cruel king. The prison he built for people who opposed him was called Ashoka Hell. However, after losing a war against […]
History – Development of Hinduism Buddhism in Asia – Hinduism first appeared in north India, then it developed and spread farther north, among others to Nepal. The influence of Hinduism in Nepal was so strong that itcould attract a lot of followers, reaching 90% of the whole population. Until now Nepal is the only Hindu kingdom in […]
History – Early development of Buddhism – Buddhism was first taught by Sidharta, a son of King Suddhodana of Kapilavasta kingdom who was a descendant of Sakya people. He was known as Buddha Gautama or Sakyamuni. At first Buddhism was not a region, it was only a new sect in Hinduism which developed because of a feeling of […]
History – Development of society and culture during Hindu-Buddhist period – Hindu-Buddhist infulenze had been present in Indonesia before the foundation of the first Hindu-Buddhist kingdoms in Indonesia, such as Kutai Kingdom in East Kalimantan and Ho-ling in Central Java. The government development in the kingdoms in Nusantara was also influenced by Hinduism-Buddhism, but local rulers had […]
History – Pre historic peoples of Indonesia – Because of the migration of people from mainland Asia to Indonesia, the Indonesian Archipelgo was already inhabited by several ethnic groups in pre-historic time. Melanesian people/Papua Melanesoids who belonged to Negroid Race had the following characteristics : dark skin, strong build, curly hair, wide mouth and pointed nose. The […]
History – Before discussing the migration of peoples to Indonesia, you had better have a look a figure which shows the route of distribution of square axes and oval exes (Neolothic culture) in Indonesia. From the figure yo know that the remains of Neolithic culture in the form of square axe and oval were not distributed in […]
History – Pre historic people in Indonesia – In the discussion about pre-historic people, you will study about various species of humans who lived in the period. Pre-historic human species in Indonesia People who lived in pre-historic time have now turned to fossils. The human fossils which have been found in Indonesia consist of several kinds. This […]
