Current Affairs Question - 30 July 2020

Explanation :

Tabo Monastery

• Also known as Tabo Chos-Khor Monastery, it is situated in the Spiti valley above Tabo village on the left bank of the Spiti River, Himachal Pradesh.
• It was founded in 996 CE in the Tibetan ‘year of the Fire Ape’ by the Tibetan Buddhist Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo (Mahauru Ramabhadra).
• Tabo is noted for being the oldest continuously operating Buddhist enclave in both India and the Himalayas

Nako Monastery

• Nako is a village in the Himalayas of northern India, located near the Indo-China border in the Trans-Himalayan region of Kinnaur district in Himachal Pradesh.
• Nako Monastery is located in the village as well as several other Buddhist chortens.
• It is also known as 'Lotsava Jhakang' meaning "complex of the translator"named so in honour of Rinchen Zangpo who translated Buddhist scriptures from Sanskrit to the Tibetan language.

Alchi Monastery

• Alchi Monastery or Alchi Gompa is a Buddhist monastery, known more as a monastic complex of temples in Alchi village in the Leh District, under the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council of the Ladakh Union Territory.
• Dukhang or Assembly Hall and the Main Temple (gTsug-lag-khang), which is a three-storied temple called the Sumtseg (gSum-brtsegs), are built in the Kashmiri style as seen in many monasteries; the third temple is called the Manjushri Temple (Jam-dpal lHa-khang).

Explanation :

• Bal Gangadhar Tilak (23 July 1856 – 1 August 1920), born as Keshav Gangadhar Tilak, was an Indian nationalist, teacher, and an independence activist.
• He was one of the Lal-Bal-Pal triumvirate.
• He was also conferred with the title of "Lokmanya", which means "accepted by the people (as their leader).Mahatma Gandhi called him "The Maker of Modern India".
• He was one of the first advocates of Swaraj or self-rule.
• He started two weeklies, ‘Kesari’ (The Lion) in Marathi and ‘Mahratta’ in English in 1880–81 with Gopal Ganesh Agarkar as the first editor.
• Both the newspapers actively propagated the cause of national freedom and stressed on making Indians aware to be self-reliant.
• Tilak helped found the All India Home Rule League in 1916–18, with G. S. Khaparde and Annie Besant. He started his Home Rule League in Maharashtra, Central Provinces, and Karnataka and Berar region.
• In 1903, Tilak wrote the book "The Arctic Home in the Vedas". In it, he argued that the Vedas could only have been composed in the Arctics, and the Aryan bards brought them south after the onset of the last ice age.
• Later, he wrote "Shrimadh Bhagvad Gita Rahasya" in prison at Mandalay – the analysis of 'Karma Yoga' in the Bhagavad Gita, which is known to be a gift of the Vedas and the Upanishads.