The Chinese Kali Temple of Kolkata | Unique Stories from India
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- With noodles and chop suey for offerings, this Kali temple is one of a kind!
John Cheng is the caretaker of a unique temple to the Goddess Kali in the heart of Kolkata’s Tangra area. The area is also known as India's very own Chinatown, with its unique symbols of cross-cultural assimilation. Formerly a Buddhist, John Cheng now considers himself a Chinese Hindu, and is the third generation caretaker of the temple. Together with the locals from the community, the temple acts as a melting pot for the Indian and Chinese communities in Kolkata.
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OMG! I'm crying, right now! I'm British, but ethnically Chinese. I was raised Buddhist, but was taught Kali worship by my grandfather back in London. I knew he lived in Calcutta, but never understood why he was so into Kali. Our entire family found it odd, to say the least, but he had a reputation for eccentricity. Before he passed away, he left his altar (a mixture of Buddhist iconography, but with a brass Kali in the center) with my mother. I now feel guilty for not being more curious about this part of his past.
Hear to glad that , you should visit once the china kali mandir of kolkata , i am ready to help you if you want👍
Kali n Kolkata goes together.
I don't understand this. I do know a Chinese guy who is Hindu, like staunch Hindu living in India and his first name is John too. Did they convert to Hinduism after migrating to India or were they Hindu before they left China.
@@mayaout7808 well therez no conversion in sanatan dharm
vishkiller23 what does that mean..you need to born into one?
I am Chinese, but I respect Kali as the Endless One, Eternity Herself. I also learned that Kali Maa is not just the goddess of destruction, but she is also the goddess of eternity, love, purification, holiness, liberation, and justice.
Perhaps she can be an inspiration to do what is right - to destroy evil and promote what is good and righteous. Jai Kali Maa!
Wonderful🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🙏🙏🙏
Wonderful🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🙏🙏🙏
U live in China and india
Even the Buddhist in Bhutan worship Kali Ma, two religion that can coexist with each other is Buddhism and Hinduism.
Well buddhist can also perform there religion and Hinduism at a same time,like Sikhs and Jains. There is no restriction in vedic religions(Hinduism or Sanatna Dharma , Skhism, Jainism and Buddhism ).
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KMY_YUDAH KING Levi tribe ?? What’s that? Buddhism came way earlier than Christianity basically it’s a son trying to teach father how to make baby? Lol
KMY_YUDAH KING and we r not Levi tribe for ur kind info, even in Buddhism we have something about sand nomads always ready to slaughter. We call them mutigpa, meaning the ones who believe only their religion is the best and kills in the name of religion and very narrow minded and blinded by their faith.
Well in my state we worship lord buddha i am a hindu.
tantric budhusm like hindu.
"Faith has no religion." That was a good one.
Wish many other people could respect our own traditions like these Chinese.
You know China is officially Atheist right?
+ Sujith54 Reddy : No it is not.
The Chinese are quite thoughtful they gave the Dalai Lama the motivation to travel the world by evicting him from his own country.
Not the Chinese, the Communist government of China. The PRC government behaves like a feudal emperor and treat all dissidents as their sworn enemies.
Chinese people are actually good and mistreated people under their totalitarian government.
I have Chinese friends,from Tangra!.And they never say that they belongs to China, they still follow the rituals but they're proud as Indians!..Everyone should visit #Tangra!..10mints from SEALDAH!
Nigel Hossain Moulali!..😊
Nigel Hossain opposite of Padmapukur masjid!.C.I.T.Road..☺
Nigel Hossain If you explain that place,I can understand!.. But by name,I don't know about that place!...It is other side of bridge or else where?!
Nigel Hossain Okay!..Now I understand!.. You stay,somewhere,near to Padmapukur market!
it is indeed ..tangra is the really nice with its diversity i can guarantee cause i stay there
Kolkata is really the melting pot of all culture
True bro
@Vishwas Singh # are thanks vaii......typing mistake ho gaya......u morons know the word better cauz u r expertized in spitting.......bloody dirty assholes........
Now TMC is destroying our West Bengal 😢
@@prasantsagar3071 Chup Bihari
@@Gareeb1997 Mr illiterate, who told you that I'm bihari
Actually a Buddhist can work in a Hindu temple without converting
Ma Kali is for one and all
Yes
@@DramaTV2613 U didnt understood what I said all I wanted to mean was that Hindus and Buddhists are sister religions thats it
@@luniisolar. all are from sanatan dharma 🙏
We asian countries should live as friends and be strong together as western country trying to make fight btwn asian country coz they knw if asian country comes together than no power can fight or break it time for asian power asian supremecy
tae sung yes we are spiritual brother
I so badly want this to happen
@@humanbeing2722 Me too
Agree, from country we are humans but truly together we all are Asians and we must unite.
There is no difference between any. like @Human Being I so badly want Asia to be together
Yes Brother , you are 500% correct. Westerners want to control and dominate the world.
Chinese are our dharmic cousins....it's unfortunate that we are having some problems. Hope that does not get in the way of our ancient sacred bond.
Yes it is correct.
@@shivakumar-ld4tn czcams.com/video/S1P55S76HpI/video.html
I just feel overwhelmed when someone calls Lord Shiva as Bholebaba
This is secularism, not what Mamata Banerjee does
@eb 01 you should try Chinese pork momos first.
@Captain Nascimento bro that's the culture of baniyas , m vegetarian baniya from jharkhand and I will also not eat that Prasad although m mad mad Hindu ,, so please have some sense
@Tiger Bengal you can't tell anyone else to eat nonveg.. it's better you shut your ass...talking bad about our PM, will not make you big...
@Tiger Bengal Modi is vegetarian. He doesn't eat meat. It's not there in vaishnav society. Even in mayapur and chaitanya gudiya maths. You tell that mamta begum to lost of our sacred temple and remove that firad Hakim from our hounred tarakeshwar temple. If try to devide Hindu in the name of mat ,region and language than we will teach you the real Hinduism.
@Captain Nascimento if any place's dietary practices are different from bongo bhumi then who are u to say it to be conservative, if gujarat was effected more by Jainism and vaishnav who are u to question them ,who told u that every Bengali eats chicken pork or mutton ,rather I come from a family restricting myself to fish and Ada jeera bata jhol not even piyaz roshun
Noodles as Prasad awww that's so sweet mix of Chinese in India I love this mix
Very surprised to learn that there are Chinese Hindus around.
Excellent journalism on the Kolkata Chinese/ Chinatown. Thumbs up!
Ur channel should have way more than 16k subscribers! I joined.
Long live Hinduism. Love from North East.
This place is near my house i had this "chowmein prasad " many times and our tangra is really diverse
When the puja is doing..
At what time do they serve this? Is it served everyday?
When they give out this Noodles Prasad ?
Kolakata is the only metropolitan city in India which offers a place to each n everyone irrespective of religion,caste,creed,race,and nationality..
I am proud of my city... Long live mother Kolkata❤️❤️
Breaking the bonds of impermanence is what Kali does for her devotees.
Jai Kali ma!
I think that should be the norm among us pagans of Eastern traditions, I became a Taoist after many years practicing shamanic lucid dreaming techniques and realized much of the teachings I had been following were given in a much higher form by Bön and Taoist lineages, especially the oldest ones which have their shamanic roots preserved more evidently. However, I still have Hindu deities on my wall from the time I was a neo Hindu! And I´ve heard the Taoist feminine deity of my special devotion, Dou Mu, the Lady of Destiny, Time and Space (She is also known for other epiteths) has a Hindu correspondent as well and we know in Chinese legends there´s a deity who must have been taken from Hinduism´s Shri Hanuman, besides the fact that Shri Ganesh Himself has a counterpart in the I Ching hexagram called Kwai Li, which means the Remover of Obstacles! I´ve heard Hinduism (and so does Bön) also has its form of Feng Shui and the concept of the Sunyata is very much akin to the Buddhist Sacred Void and the Taoist Primordial Nature or the Tao as the Source of All Things. Also, Okinawan Shamanic native religion would well mingle with Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Bön. Thank you so much for this lovely, inspirational video!
Samajh mein aaya kya?
Magaj mein aaya kya?
Nopes........😐
magick
@Nischay Miglani Well, I'm glad you think that way. Master Alex Anatole says Bön is the Tibetan form of Taoism and though the lineages of Enlightened Ones are different, the core beliefs are the same, the Sacred Primordial Nature or Anterior Heaven is tantamount to the concept of Parabrahman and the aeons of what physics theories now call the big bang and the big rip are the nights and days of Brahman, which in Taoism is also taught about, cycles within cycles, etc. Mahayana Buddhists, if I'm no mistaken, believe in the Womb of the Tatagathas, the Sacred Void which originates all buddhas and this sounds to me much like the Hindu Sunyata, the Sacred Nothingness, which, buy he way seems to have been attested in one of its infinite qualities in the Quantum Physics of matter and antimatter particles clashing in the so-called 'nothingness', which they say once originated the present universe from that one single particle of matter which escaped clashing with its antimatter counterpart! It´s interesting that in the oldest, shamanic schools of Taoism we also are taught about multiple parallel universes, and that the Ascended Ones who transcend death - not just the ones who manage to create the so-called 'spiritual fetus' but the real immortals who turn their physical bodies into the Primordial Nature, keeping, nevertheless, their capacity to manifest as individuals at will. It seems Baba Ji is going in this direction (and also his sister, who is also said to be immortal). Some arrogant philosophical masters of some Taoist schools, however, mock these beliefs saying they are but the naive superstitions of the masses, forgetting that even acupuncture came from the same shamans who gave them these and other beliefs in Taoism. I remember reading about the Banyan magi who turn into trees to live as long as five thousand years, which also reminds us of the European folk tales which speak of such wizards who turn into trees, but whose knowledge seems to have been either forgotten or kept in secrecy by hermetic oral traditions.
@Vishwas Singh Jay Maha Rani, Jay Vayu, may this awareness of our common wisdom thrive and deepen worldwide!
@Vishwas Singh Dhanyawaad for this info!
Eastern cultures like India China Japan are unique in a sense that here people are multi religious that is an Indian can be sikh and Hindu at the same time like in Punjab an Indian can be Buddhist and Hindu at the same time like in kinnar and lahaul Spiti of Himachal Pradesh
Chinese can be Buddhist Taoist or follower of Confucius simultaneously
Japanese can be Shinto and Buddhist at the same time it is only the semitic religion which are exclusivist and actively promote hatred and rejection of other paths of spirituality
Sikkim and north bengal with dominant nepali population is the best example of mixture of Buddhist and Hindu ..as a Buddhist we follow lots of hindu rituals and worship many Hindu goddess and Hindus worship Buddhist goddess
The divine mother is mother of everyone.
It doesnt matter from which community her devotees belong.
@Captain Nascimento Bhag bangladeshi mullah.
awesome video.
I've always felt that 101 India makes such awesome videos but I see that their subscriber's are around 13-14K . Every video is like a learning/teaching. The few of us need to share these videos with friends n family.
please continue this 101 India
Well said Anirudh
Kolkata should be cultural capital of india cause only in Kolkata you can see the beautiful blend of so many culture
Even here in Australia Chinese people are soo helpful and friendly to Indians
Malaysia too. They live peacefully and pray their deities together(Hinduism&Taoism)
Kudos to you guys for fishing out such amazing stories. Even being a Bengali I never knew about the Chinese Kali mandir.
you don't have to !!! future muslim
@Mna. Fake God your
Thanks to your channel. I am born & brought up in Calcutta,now I am 62 years old, yet I was ignorant of this holy fact. Suerly I am going to this temple shortly.
Jay mata di...Nice so nice. I LOVE n respect Indian n Chinese cultures..! Ma Kali devi is most strogest n powerful God...! I I m happy to see here Chinese Hindus..!
Vajrayana tradition of tantrik Buddhism was directly and profoundly influenced by the Shakt tradition of tantrik Hinduism. Devi Durga, Devi Maa Kali, Dashamahavidya deities etc are the fundamental base of the core philosophy of that sect. The same for the tantrik Buddhism aka Vajrayana. So its absolutely not shocking that some Chinese or Tibetan or Japanese will worship the mother goddess of Hinduism.
hii who is Naro Khandroma in hinduism?
@@tsarzlolz1984From the picture she seems to be similar to Hindu Goddess Chinnamosta. The sixth Goddess of Dashamahavidya.
You guys make the most interesting videos. I've learned so much about my birth city from you. Keep up the good work!
Wow ... so beautiful channel !! Where was this channel all the while?
I am a Bengali and live in kolkata.
This channel is great and very well done
Wonderful channel...unique and explorative
Wonderful informations, wonderful videos, thank you for posting such informatic videos...)))
That proof how Vibrant is our Great India !!!
just come to malaysia, this has been common for ages
prathification Chinese in India is different context and face different challenges thou
Yes I know in Malay about jambhavan
Very inspiring and beautiful
Super. This is called blessing.
So beautiful Jai Maa Kali 🙏😘👍
You people are doing a great job
This is called true bhakti ...we can divide everything but not goddesse Kaali ...
Deep words indeed
nantha kumar
Thanks
Very good content! All the best
truer words have never been spoken...faith has no religion
Well buddhist can also perform there religion and Hinduism at a same time,like Sikhs and Jains. There is no restriction in vedic religions(Hinduism or Sanatna Dharma , Skhism, Jainism and Buddhism ).
Sarang Shastry Buddhist can not worship Gods or Goddesses. Mainstream Buddhism rejects the belief in a creator or deity along with Jainism
@@itsnadaaaa there are 3 major sects of Buddhism. Mahayana and Vajrayana do worship Vedic gods, just the Theravada do not.
@@highpeaks3598 theravada also did... in Combodia, Laos.thailandu can find many Buddhist worshiping Hindu Gods...
China and India share a lot of culture and living fashion. Our language and land may be different but if you start digging you will know how deep the roots of India, China, Myanmar, Indonesia are.
Truth, Belief and Faith Has NO RELIGION, on the Outside. It is In One's Heart. Jai Kali Mata. 🙏.
❤️💕Them. They aren't yet Chinese, they are Tru Indian 🌟 now.
U guys doing awesome work,need something about mansions from colonial era,and churches,graveyards....
THIS IS MY🇮🇳 INDIA🇮🇳
There is no boundary in jainism,buddhism,sikhism and hinduism. They all can be followed together without sacrificing teaching of any one. THIS IS SECULARISM. THIS IS WHAT WE NEED IN INDIA AND NOT ABRAHMIC RELIGIONS
YES
I respect you with all my heart ,John sir ❤️
If you walk around the streets in kolkata you will see such surprises very often... Like Chinese kali mandir, muslims artists designing pandels and designing dresses in Durga - kali puja, crowded zakaria street in Ramzan for kebabs, there was Chinese press also few years back, tower of silence, Kabuliwala's Mohalla and lots of stuff
Indian & Chinese civilisations are 'Yin & Yang' of the world civilisations. 🙏🏻
incredible India
this can be only in India.India i am proud of you
JAY HO ! blessings !
I want to visit this place and have noodle prasad! After praying there of course.
this is India amazing
Really great sir
Really it looks very nice kalimaa bless me amma
Smriti dewan is so beautiful. Keep up the good work. I enjoy every single clip.
Keep up the good work.
Amazing
It is really inspired to me
wow!
This would make a great cable tv reality/doc show.
I wish more people watch your Videos.
Awesome
Nice Khup Sundor
this is india and im proud to be one
JAI MAA KALI....
This can happen only in India. love my country.Sanatan dharm is great.Sanatan dharm is the home of every human being in the world.
Amezing temple 🙌😍
Very good amalgamation of cultures
I also want noodles prasad.. Yumm 😋
Mujhe to bara acha laga ye sab dekhkar. Jai maa kaali
We have Chinatown in Kolkata,,,
Waoo I didn't know that☺️☺️☺️
You are helping culture.
Jai maa Parvati Adishakti Mahamaya kali.....🧡🧡🧡
Great story...I am from ruby,kolkata...
Jai maha Kali ..
☺☺☺☺☺☺
Asian we United. .
India.china.thailand.bhuthan.nepal.srilanka.japan
Hindu buddhism taos I'm we unite
Jai Maa Kali
Great praying to Buddhism and Kali maa
Nice story
Wow what a beauty at 3:25. Now I forgot what happened before 3:25.
ah ! the diversity!
Jai Shre Ram 🙏🙏🙏
Jai ShivaShakthi Jai Gangamma 😇🙏🕉️
Har Har Mahadev 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺....
Nice ❤
My Kolkata, My Bengal ❤️❤️❤️
👏👏
This is too cute❤
Jai Kali! 🙏
OMG SHAKTI OM SHAKTI OM SHAKTI OM SHAKTI OM SHAKTI!
Jai Kali Maa..
Goddess Kali bless you all.
Joy Maa .....🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺
jai maa kali
jai maa durga
i always had a feeling tht Chinese n indian culture are kinda similar 🙂 love to all chinese brother n sisters❤