Hello and welcome to the blog today. I will be discussing what I have done and where I am. Right now I am in Delhi in India (though you will probably be reading this 9 days later and I hope you are in a world where no brown people always stare and are afraid to touch you*). For your information, I am about to tell you what has been happening around here. Let me tell whichever one of my friends you may be, some things that have happened to me and my family.
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| One sick Kitty - Gwalior. |
First of all, my family (apart from me) have got Diarrhoea (Die-o-ree-a). Apparently my sister was throwing up in the night which is disgusting.
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| Harry at Stupa, Sarnath |
I can tell you what the most recent thing I have done. In a new place I went to called Varanasi I went to a silk factory and we saw beautiful decorative patterns made of silk. The factory not only made the silk but it also designed the patterns on the silk. (I just found a new word I called SPATTERNS.)
I went to a place for Buddhists, called Sarnath. It is very important to Buddhists because there is a big thing called a Stupa (it has loads of gold leaf printed on it!) and it was built really long ago and also their god (Buddha) was a real person and in the middle of the place there was a big circle and apparently the ashes of Buddha (who was cremated) was buried underneath the circle. The inscription reads: truth alone triumphs. (Mum quite likes this inscription!)
I went to a place for Buddhists, called Sarnath. It is very important to Buddhists because there is a big thing called a Stupa (it has loads of gold leaf printed on it!) and it was built really long ago and also their god (Buddha) was a real person and in the middle of the place there was a big circle and apparently the ashes of Buddha (who was cremated) was buried underneath the circle. The inscription reads: truth alone triumphs. (Mum quite likes this inscription!)
| Lion Capital, India |
I also saw one of the most important things in the whole of India! It is called the Lion Capital. It is important because in 300 BC there was a bloodthirsty king called Ashoka. The only thing he wanted to do was expand his empire. Then one day he visited the battlefield. The only thing he saw was dead bodies and blood. Then he had second thoughts. He soon realized what he had done and he turned over a new leaf. He started following Buddhism and taught it too. And for his army, instead of fighting, they spread Buddhism.
His son and daughter went to Sri Lanka to spread Buddhism. All and all, he was happy but the neighbouring emperors thought that he had weakened. Ashoka knew that and he had a plan. On the border of India, he put up four large columns with a Lion Capital on the top of each pillar. This signified that he didn’t want to fight and he had gone peaceful. And now, on any money you find in India the Lion Capital is on it.
*This is getting very boring for me LLLK
