Ajanta Caves a UNESCO World Heritage Site and place of pilgrimage for Mongolian Buddhists and Buddhists worldwide.
Mongolia emerged from the fall of Communism and the Berlin Wall as an independent nation over 30 years ago. A majority Buddhist country, it’s history is intertwined with most of Asia.
Mongolian Buddhists are rediscovering their cultural links with India as well as China through shared Buddhist traditions and customs. Mongolians practice a form of Buddhism influenced from Tibetan Buddhism which has been mixed with their traditional shamanic practices. Inner Mongolia which is part of the People’s Republic of China is part where Mongolian Buddhism has had extensive cultural exchange with Chinese Buddhism. In the state of Mongolian many Mongolian Buddhists have travelled to India to Buddhist holy sites like Bodh Gaya in Bihar.
In a sign of India’s strong cultural Buddhist ties with Mongolia in 2019, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi jointly unveiled with Mongolian President Khaltmaagiin Battulga a statue of Lord Buddha in Gandan monastery in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Co-Founder of Ajanta Heritage & Culture, Vedan Choolun is enthused about the possibilities of connecting with Mongolian Buddhist with Buddhist and Hindu holy sites and places pilgrimage in India. In particular Ajanta Caves is very much part of Mongolian culture and history and part of every Buddhist majority nation in Asia as much as it is Indian. There is strong will from both the Indian and Mongolian side to take cultural relations to new heights.
Ajanta’s purpose as laid out by Mayfair; London based Co-Founder Vedan Choolun is a unique initiative using state of the art AI techniques to digitally preserve 2nd Century BC Ajanta Cave Paintings to benefit generations to come.
Leading the preservation and digitization efforts is Ashwin Srivastav Co-Founder of Ajanta Heritage & Culture based in Mumbai, India. The digitized form of these paintings in Ajanta Caves in Aurangabad District, Maharashtra India are designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Ajanta Paintings will be restored and stored on an island in Svalbard, Norway together with other digital artifacts from the Vatican Library, political histories, masterpieces from times past.
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