Gilgit: Empty Gilgit-Baltistan, Modi threatens Pakistan. According to reports, the Indian government has warned Pakistan not to change the historical status of Gilgit-Baltistan and its centuries-old heritage.
The Indian government threatened that India would neither recognize nor allow the attempt, as per reports of Baaghi TV.
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A statement issued by the Indian government said that Chilas and northern areas have ancient Buddhist heritage. Pakistan does not have any right to them, Pakistan should stay away from any such attempt, which has a geographical impact on India.
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On the other hand, the government of Pakistan, while rejecting the Indian allegations, has said that India has no right to interfere in the affairs of another country. Rejecting the Indian threats, the Foreign Ministry spokesman said that Pakistan wants to protect these historical heritages.
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It may be recalled that this historical heritage is very old in Gilgit-Baltistan and the government of Pakistan has decided to promote tourism in order to introduce it. That is why it was recently decided that Korean Buddhist monks would visit ancient Buddhist monuments in the northern regions of Pakistan, and perform religious rites in front of the Buddha statue, opening new doors for tourism development for Pakistan.
Following the government’s announcement of the opening of the Kartarpur Corridor and the restoration of ancient Hindu temples, Buddhists have also turned to Pakistan.
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Opportunities for religious tourism in Gilgit-Baltistan have attracted the attention of Buddhists. Korean Buddhist monks perform religious rites in front of a statue of Gautama Buddha, opening new doors for tourism development.
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Korean Buddhist monks attend and perform religious rites at a nine-foot-tall Buddha statue erected on a mountain rock in Gilgit in the 8th century AD. They also visited Buddhist monuments in Taxila.
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This is the first time that Buddhists have visited the northern parts of Pakistan to perform religious rites en masse. Visitors also toured the tourist and historical sites in Nagar and Hunza and saw the ancient Silk Road and Rakapushi. In their honor, the provincial government held a special ceremony and extended traditional hospitality.
Gilgit-Baltistan has a large number of Buddhist relics, including Buddha statues, inscriptions and impressions on mountain cliffs.
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The Buddhist monuments in Gilgit-Baltistan are still preserved centuries later, attracting a large number of tourists. Diamer District has more than 400,000 inscriptions and impressions along the Indus River, the largest collection of rock carvings in the world.
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According to the researcher and author of several books, Sherbaz Barcha, it is the second rarest Buddha statue in the world, carved out of rock by Buddhists in the eighth century. There is a similar statue in Ladakh.
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According to Sherbaz Barcha, who briefed the Korean delegation, it has a special place in Buddhism, which is why visitors come here exclusively and perform religious rites.
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Muhammad Alam, who is associated with the tourism sector, says, “The arrival of Buddhist monks in Gilgit will boost religious tourism in the region. Gilgit-Baltistan has ample opportunities in this regard. Buddhists especially come here in different seasons. With the improved law and order situation in Gilgit-Baltistan, the tourism sector is improving, so religious tourism should be encouraged here.
Mohammad Ashraf Ashur is associated with the hotel sector. He says religious tourism opportunities for Buddhists in Gilgit-Baltistan can be beneficial.
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Religious tourism can be boosted in countries where Buddhists live in large numbers by providing better travel facilities at the local level, including maximizing publicity of these opportunities and facilitating visa policies.
The arrival of the Korean pilgrims was kept secret from local journalists, with senior local journalist Manzar Shugri saying that Gilgit-Baltistan is a peaceful region. It was a good opportunity to do so, but it was wasted.
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Buddhism entered Gilgit-Baltistan at the end of the seventh century. Before Islam, the people of Baltistan were followers of Buddhism and Bon religion. Even today, Buddhist relics are found in many places in the region, including the rock of Manthal Buddha and the sacred rock of Hunza. On the way from Skardu to Lake Satpara, a large granite rock is engraved with various forms of Gautama Buddha.
This ninth-century rock commemorates the golden age of the Buddhist Empire in the Upper Indus Valley between the eighth and tenth centuries. Engraved on this yellow rock, the Buddha is depicted meditating among his followers. In 1906, Ella, a Scottish tourist, drew the world’s attention to the rock in her book.
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In the Hunza Valley, along with Karimabad, lies a small town called Hildiksh, where on a hill, on the banks of the Hunza River, lies this sacred Buddhist rock that is thousands of years old. This rock has two parts and on both of them different pictures and texts are engraved. This place was once used as a Buddhist sanctuary. The government of Pakistan has taken it into its custody, but the floods in the Hunza River continue to damage this ancient cultural heritage.
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After the advent of Islam in the fifteenth century, many Buddhists converted to Islam, and the few children migrated to Ladakh, where Buddhists still predominate. The Bamiyan-style workshop of the Buddha is a huge rock on a high mountain, but unfortunately, due to the poor condition of the link road, tourists and Buddhists have great difficulty in getting here. The Buddha Workshop, locally called Ishani, is one of the unique Buddhist archeological sites. The Buddha statue is located on a hill between the Kargah and Shokogah river canals.
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It is located near Burmas, Barsati Nalla and Nepura Basin. In Gilgit’s rich cultural heritage and surrounding areas, the spread of Buddhism is connected with the Silk Road, and it is a historical fact that Buddhists used to pass through here in Buddhist temples. The Buddha statue and other archeological sites indicate that Gilgit was considered a major center of Buddhism from the 3rd to the 11th century.
A few kilometers from Gilgit, a Buddhist shrine, and three stupas and a Sanskrit text were found during excavations. It is believed that the work of Buddhism and religious affairs was completed here in the seventh century. The Sanskrit inscription was discovered in 1931, while a Buddhist statue was discovered between 1938 and 1939, along with a shrine located at an altitude of 400 meters above sea level.
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According to the Gilgit-Baltistan Tourism Department, in 2018-19, about 500,000 tourists flocked to Gilgit-Baltistan to see the Buddha statue. Locals have strange stories about the hole around the workshop Wednesday. Residents here believe that a man-eater lived in the area and ate human flesh.
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To get rid of this man-eating man, people went to him for help from a village elder and surrounded him with a statue of Buddha. The man-eater was imprisoned in the hole that appeared. Pakistan has magnificent and centuries-old Buddhist statues, rock carvings and stupas. It is said that the ashes of Gautama Buddha were preserved in eight stupas, which were later preserved by Ashoka the Great by constructing stupas in all the major cities of the empire at that time.
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Thus the dust was placed in 5,000 stupas. There are many such stupas in Swat and other parts of the country. Swat is said to have seen the rise of Buddhism. In the past, there were hundreds of monasteries on the banks of the Swat River in which thousands of students studied. Gandhara art related to Buddhism is not only an art that can be seen carving the stones of Gautama Buddha into magnificent statues, but it is also a mirror of a great civilization.
This art flourished from the first to the seventh century. There is a cave near the rock at Manthal in the Himalayas where Buddhists still meditate for Nirvana. There is a large rock on the banks of the Hunza River near Karimabad in Hunza, which is said to be thousands of years old. Pictures and texts are engraved on both sides of the rock. This place is now a protected heritage. Experts say that Buddhism went to China from Swat.
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Most of the archeological sites are in the vicinity of Bari Kot, Saidu Sharif and Odigram. During excavations in Bari Kot, Swat, a huge statue of Gautama Buddha on horseback was found. Contains There is another rock a short distance from Mingora on which is a huge statue of Gautama Buddha.
Near the Swat Museum, there is a huge Buddhist temple called Kadha. This temple is about two thousand years old, and was built by Ashoka the Great. In its center was a tall stupa and around it were built five small stupas. The dome of the stupa always has seven canopies, representing the seven heavens. Takht Bai Gandhara district of Mardan is a center of art or Buddhism.
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There is an entire Gandhara-style city on a hill that is now part of the World Heritage Site. Excavations at Takht-e-Bai began in 1836. The remains of Hari Bahlol have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1980. These monuments belong to a fortified city. A rock carved in Shahbaz Garhi can be seen some distance from Mardan city.
The Peshawar Museum is of special importance for all kinds of Buddhist relics. It is said to be the custodian of antiquities from the Buddhist and Buddhist empires around the world, including hundreds of statues, coins, stupas, pottery, and more. It is an attraction not only for tourists but also for historians and researchers. Numerous Buddhist relics have also been discovered in Punjab, such as Taxila, its environs and part of Rahim Yar Khan.
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Traces of Buddhism have also been found in Sindh. Daryl sub-division of Diamer district is a fertile area with a population of 70,000. In the thirteenth century, this area was the headquarters of the state of Dardistan and during the Buddhist period, Daryl was a religious and educational center. The Phugch Valley is located just ten kilometers from the Karakoram Highway, and there are still stone walls made of red clay without stones in the name of the Buddhist University in the 5th century 750 AD. In these circumstances, the allegations made by India are exactly the same.
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