Archaeology, Heritage Management and Immortality Project

 This is something went through me while reading Mark Manson's Subtle Art of... which may be equally useful to see another perspective of our heritage, the past. When it comes to Archaeology, my personal view point is the western or so called well known archaeological theory has been highly relying on their philosophy, the oriental thinking still fully not able to incorporate their thoughts in to the past, the Archaeology, which is usually a cyclic nature as well as the uncetainity principle. The way how Lord Buddha used the relics to show the uncertainity and using such as a path to Nirvana.

When it comes to a phase where archaeology is gradually dying to hard science core, while the traditionality being overlooking, the Heritage Management has taken place, which is to my point of view, a mythical being which is none existent. Is it possible for someone to be stand in a free stance to solve a problem of a living culture, in favour of two or multiple parties where everyone are happy? Is it possible to enact such a thing going in to the core of the problem. Is it able to perform something that law and regulations cannot. If it is possible, it is greate and where all the humanity will praise. But the matter is, culture it self in willing to consume another culture and expand.

This is where the Immortality Project comes. Each individual person, family, community, society and country are always in willing to be immortality of their values, their thoughts and belief systems. In such a background, when the past could be a part of such a project, which will need to be managed. Manage what? the Heritage. This is the Heritage Management, which is a part of the Immortality Project. Finding the best solution! yes, it is good, yet Asoka was failed. 

This is where we need the 'bitter antidote', which may rooting from an Oriental or Buddhist thinking, a theoretical school of archaeology, which we will need to form. Such a school may express the true view of the past, the so called Heritage in Lord Buddha's view point, the uncertainity rather than immortality. If one group in this dialogue or the argument can take a single step back and say 'well, we are sticking to our principles, though these are Buddhist remains we had been taught to see all these through their uncertainity', other party can be also stopped. How you may ask? by the law. Then it will come again to the concept of living heritage thing, and one may ask, 'Buddhism is still here, so these are monuments which will need to be reconstructed to their old glory......' yet I may say, hey wait! Yes, it is, these are living. Perfectly living to the words of Lord Buddha. You can go to any living monument which are deteriorating, and medidate about the uncertainity. 

Then what about the past, all the heritage we derived from our ancestors who protect those by giving their life, the dignity? We should not forget that we are not living in future, but past. It is always past. Immortality is for future, protecting these are for future, but still we are living in past. 

tbc....