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UN Chinese Language Day opening ceremony held at the Vienna International Centre, Vienna, Austria. 2 May 2023.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Here are a few of the Japanese language books I have in my collection. I do not speak or read Japanese, but I love the books I have.
Maybe some of my Japanese speaking Flickr friends can offer translations to these titles.
Photo by Hiro Chang, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs
The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center opened its doors to the public on May 15 for its annual Language Day event.
The event showcased the cultures of the different departmental languages being taught here through dance, skits and fashion shows.
Exhibits were also presented throughout the school grounds with local Monterey ethnic vendors selling their local cuisines to the customers.
Nearly 2,000 high school students and teachers attended Language Day.
FILE
FILE RIO 09
Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica
Electronic Language International Festival
Instalações / Installations – FILE RIO 09
Casilda Sánchez e Julio Obelleiro – The Viewer – Espanha / Spain
Clara Boj e Diego Diaz – AR_Magic System – Espanha / Spain
Daan Brinkmann – Skinstrument – Holanda
Giselle Beiguelman e Mauricio - Suíte para Mobile Tags - Movimento #1 – Brasil / Brazil
Hugues Bruyère - Presence [A.K.A Soft & Silky] – Canadá / Canada
Jarbas Jacome – Crepúsculo dos Ídolos – Brasil / Brazil
Julio Obelleiro & Alberto García - The Magic Torch – Espanha / Spain
Sheldon Brown – Scalable City – EUA / USA
Soraya Braz & Fábio Fon – Roaming – Brasil / Brazil
Symposium – Simpósio
FILE RIO 09
Giselle Beiguelman & Maurício Fleury [BRA] - Mobile Tagging e a Era da Inteligência Distribuída
Diego Diaz & Clara Boj [ESP] - Hybrid city: a selection of Lalalab's research projects
Jarbas Jácome [BRA] - Sistemas Interativos de Tempo Real para Processamento Audiovisual Integrado
Hugues Bruyère [CAN] - Presence [a.k.a Soft n’ Silky]
Casilda Sánchez e Julio Obelleiro [ESP] - "The Viewer" and other confronted gazes
Julio Obelleiro [ESP] - From The Magic Lantern to The Magic Torch
Jane de Almeida & Eunézio A. Souza [BRA] - Rede Kyatera: infraestrutura para transmissão online de cinema em super-alta definição
Daan Brinkmann [NLD] - skinstrument / Lines - an intermediary installation
Cinema Documenta FILE RIO 09
Antonello Matarazzo – Interferenze – Itália / Italy
Bruno Natal - Dub Echoes – Brasil / Brazil
Carlo Sansolo - Panoramika Eletronika - Brasil / Brazil
Kevin Logan – Recitation – Londres / London
Kodiak Bachine e Apollo 9 – Nuncupate – Brasil / Brazil
Linda Hilfing Nielsen - Participation 0.0 – Dinamarca
Maren Sextro e Holger Wick - Slices, Pioneers of Electronic Music – Vol.1 – Richie Hawtin Documentary – Alemanha / Germany
Matthew Bate - What The Future Sounded Like – Austrália
Thomas Ziegler, Jason Gross e Russell Charmo - OHM+ the early gurus of electronic music – Eua / USA
Mídia Arte FILE RIO 09
[ fladry + jones ] Robb Fladry and Barry Jones - The War is Over 2007 – EUA / USA
Agricola de Cologne - One Day on Mars – Alemanha / Germany
alan bigelow - "When I Was President" – EUA / USA
Alessandra Ribeiro Parente Paes
Daniel Fernandes Gamez
Glauber Kotaki Rodrigues
Igor Albuquerque Bertolino
Karina Yuko Haneda
Marcio Pedrosa Tirico da Silva Junior – Reativo – Brasil / Brazil
Alessandro Capozzo – Talea – Itália / Italy
Alex Hetherington - Untitled (sexyback, folly artist) – Reino Unido / United Kingdon
Alexandre Campos, Bruno Massara e Lucilene Soares Alves - Novos Olhares sobre a Mobilidade – Brasil / Brazil
Alexandre Cardoso Rodrigues Nunes
Bruno Coimbra Franco
Diego Filipe Braga R. Nascimento
Fábio Rinaldi Batistine
Yumi Dayane Shimada – Abra Sua Gaveta – Brasil / Brazil
ALL: ALCIONE DE GODOY, ADILSON NG, CAMILLO LOUVISE COQUEIRO, MARINA QUEIROZ MAIA, RODOLFO ROSSI JULIANI, VINÍCIUS NAKAMURA DE BRITO – Vita Ex Maxina – Brasil / Brazil
Andreas Zingerle - Extension of Human sight – Áustria
Andrei R. Thomaz - O Tabuleiro dos Jogos que se bifurcam - First Person Movements - Brasil / Brazil
Andrei R. Thomaz e Marina Camargo – Eclipses – Brasil / Brazil
Brit Bunkley – Spin – Spite – Nova Zelândia – New Zeland
calin man – appendXship / Romênia
Carlindo da Conceição Barbosa
Kauê de Oliveira Souza
Guilherme Tetsuo Takei
Renato Michalischen
Ricardo Rodrigues Martins
Tassia Deusdara Manso
Thalyta de Almeida Barbosa / Da Música ao Caos – Brasil / Brazil
Christoph Korn – waldstueck – Alemanha / Germany
Corpos Informáticos: Bia Medeiros, Carla Rocha, Diego Azambuja, Fernando Aquino, Kacau Rodrigues, Márcio Mota, Marta Mencarini, Wanderson França – UAI 69 – Brasil / Brazil
Duda. – do pixel ao pixel – Brasil / Brazil
Daniel Kobayashi
Felipe Crivelli Ayub
Fernando Boschetti
Luiz Felipe M. Coelho
Marcelo Knelsen
Mauro Falavigna
Rafael de A. Campos
Wellington K. Guimarães Bastos - A Casa Dentro da Porta – Brasil / Brazil
David Clark - 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein – Canadá
Thais Paola Galvez
Josias Silva
Diego Abrahão Modesto
Nilson Benis
Vinicius Augusto Naka de Vasconcelos
Wilson Ruano Junior
Marcela Moreira da Silva – Rogério caos – Brasil / Brazil
Diogo Fuhrmann Misiti, Guilherme Pilz, João Henrique - Caleidoscópio Felliniano: 8 ½ - Brasil / Brazil
Agence TOPO: Elene Tremblay, Marcio Lana-Lopez, Maryse Larivière, Marie-Josée Hardy, James Prior - Mes / My contacts – Canadá / Canada
Eliane Weizmann, Fernando Marinho e Leocádio Neto – Storry teller – Brasil / Brazil
Fabian Antunes - Pousada Recanto Abaetuba – Brasil / Brazil
Edgar Franco e Fabio FON - Freakpedia - A verdadeira enciclopédia livre – Brasil / Brazil
Fernando Aquino – UAI Justiça – Brasil / Brazil
Henry Gwiazda - claudia and Paul - a doll's house is...... - there's whispering...... – EUA / USA
Architecture in Metaverse: Hidenori Watanave - "Archidemo" - Architecture in Metaverse – Hapão / Japan
Yto Aranda – Cyber Birds Dance – Chile
Dana Sperry - Sketch for an Intermezzo for the Masses, no. 7 – EUA / USA
Jorn Ebner - (sans femme et sans aviateur) – Reino Unido / United Kingdon
Josephine Anstey, Dave Pape - Office Diva – EUA / USA
Josh Fishburn – Layers – Waiting – EUA / USA
Karla Brunet – Peculiaris – Brasil / Brazil
Kevin Evensen - Veils of Light – EUA / USA
lemeh42 (santini michele and paoloni lorenza) - Study on human form and humanity #01 – Itália / Italy
linda hilfling e erik borra - misspelling generator – Dinamarca / Denmark
Lisa Link - If I Worked for 493 years – EUA / USA
Marcelo Padre – Estro – Brasil / Brazil
Martha Carrer Cruz Gabriel - Locative Painting - Brasil / Brazil
Martin John Callanan - I Wanted to See All of the News From Today – Reino Unido / United Kingdon
Mateus Knelsen, Ana Clara, Felipe Vasconcelos, Rafael Jacobsen, Ronaldo Silva - A pós-modernidade em recortes: Tide Hellmeister e as relações Design e cultura – Brasil / Brazil
Mateus Knelsen, Felipe Szulc, Mileine Assai Ishii, Pamela Cardoso, Tânia Taura - Homo ex machina – Brasil / Brazil
Michael Takeo Magruder - Sequence-n (labyrinth) - Sequence-n (horizon) – Reino Unido / United Kingdon
Michael Takeo Magruder + Drew Baker + David Steele - The Vitruvian World - Reino Unido / United Kingdon
Nina Simões - Rehearsing Reality ( An interactive non-linear docufragmentary) - Reino Unido / United Kingdon
Nurit Bar-Shai - Nothing Happens – EUA / USA
projectsinge: Blanquet Jerome - Monkey_Party – França / France
QUBO GAS - WATERCOULEUR PARK – França / France
rachelmauricio castro – 360 - R.G.B. – tybushwacka – Brasil / Brazil
Rafael Rozendaal - future physics – Netherlands
Regina Célia Pinto - Ninhos & Magia – Brasil / Brazil
Roni Ribeiro – Bípedes – Brasil / Brazil
Rubens Pássaro - ISTO NÃO É PARANÓIA – Brasil / Brazil
Rui Filipe Antunes – xTNZ – Brasil / Brazil
Selcuk ARTUT & Cem OCALAN – NewsPaperBox – Brazil
Tanja Vujinovic - "Without Title" – Switzerland
Hipersônica Screening – FILE RIO 09
1mpar – hol – Brasil / Brazil
Art Zoyd - EYECATCHER 1 - EYECATCHER 2, Man with a movie camera - Movie-Concert for The Fall of the Usher House – França / France
Audiobeamers (FroZenSP and Klinid) - Paesaggi Liquidi II – Alemanha / Germany
Bernhard Loibner – Meltdown – Áustria
Bjørn Erik Haugen – Regress - Norway
Celia Eid e Sébastien Béranger – Gymel – França / France
Studio Brutus/Citrullo International - H2O – Itália / Italy
Daniel Carvalho - OUT_FLOW PART I – Brasil / Brazil
David Muth - You Are The Sony Of My Life – Reino Unido / United Kingdon
Dennis Summers - Phase Shift Vídeos – EUA / USA
Duprass - Liora Belford & Ido Govrin – Free Field – Pink / Noise – Israel
Fernando Velázquez – Nómada – Brasil / Brazil
Frames aka Flames - Performance audiovisual sincronizada: Sociedade pós-moderna, novas tecnologias e espaço urbano - Brasil / Brazil
Frederico Pessoa - butterbox – diving - Brasil / Brazil
Jay Needham - Narrative Half-life – EUA / USA
Soundsthatmatter – trotting – briji – Brasil / Brazil
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center held its version of Language Day at venues throughout the Presidio May 9, 2014. Thousands of visitors attended the free event aimed primarily at students in grades K-12. School groups attended from across the state. Language Day features cultural displays and activities, classroom presentations, ethnic foods served by local multinational vendors, and a wide variety of entertainment. Throughout the day, visitors were entertained by a colorful program that included Korean dancers, a leaping 60-foot Chinese paper dragon, Hindi and Afghani musicians playing traditional instruments, European choral ensembles and troubadours, Hebrew recitations, Persian folk singers, and a variety of other performers and cultural entertainments. All 24 languages taught at the DLIFLC were featured in special presentations during the day. To read the full story visit www.army.mil/article/125750/
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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Metà del mondo è composto da persone che hanno qualcosa da dire e non può, e l'altra metà che non hanno niente da dire e continuare a dirlo.
Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet ~ Poeta statunitense ~
A map entitled "Canada Showing Location of Indian Bands with Linguistic Affiliations." Published by Indian Affairs Branch, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development in 1968.
Scale: 100 miles : 1 inch.
Jawa Barat is West Java, the province where Bandung is. The competition judges the language abilities of high school (SMA) students, who must speak and listen in Bahasa Indonesia, Sundanese (the local language around Bandung), and English.
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The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center held their annual Language Day 2016 at the Presidio of Monterey, California, May 13 to promote and encourage cultural understanding and customs from around the world.
Approximately 5,000 people attended the event, which features cultural displays and activities as well as ethnic foods served by local international vendors on the Presidio’s Soldier Field every year.
(Photo by Amber K. Whittington)
Anthropology professor Victor Golla works with students to produce a manuscript of the Wailaki language.
Photo by Hiro Chang, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs
The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center opened its doors to the public on May 15 for its annual Language Day event.
The event showcased the cultures of the different departmental languages being taught here through dance, skits and fashion shows.
Exhibits were also presented throughout the school grounds with local Monterey ethnic vendors selling their local cuisines to the customers.
Nearly 2,000 high school students and teachers attended Language Day.
I never realized how important words are... they can make you or break you. That's why I love photographing words. Language/communication is so important... words have the power to tell people you you are; they can represent or misrepresent. Lack of words can leave people in the dark or searching; too many words can leave people feeling overwhelmed. Words can be daggers to your heart or they can uplift your soul. It's important to tell people whom you care about how important they are in your lives and to effectively express to them specifically just what they mean to you.. always communicate to the fullest extent. Ask the important questions and also learn to listen and try not to hurt the ones you love with ugly words. Otherwise you might find that you lose the people who are most important in your life. I have learned this the hard way and it was not fun. Treat people the way you would want to be treated and at the end of the day --- hello, we are all only human, so forgive, forgive, forgive. Life is too short to do otherwise.
(poster) Esperanto, Elvish, and Beyond: The World of Constructed Languages
What are Constructed Languages?
Many people are familiar with languages like English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Swahili, and German. Lesser-known languages include Basque, Georgian, Tibetan, Mohawk, Quechua, and Guguyimidjir. Some languages that are no longer spoken include Etruscan, Gothic, Gaulish, Tocharian, Hittite, Akkadian, and Ancient Egyptian. The one thing that all these languages share is that they all evolved naturally, arising organically within a group of people through various natural forces. No single person defined their vocabularies, designed their syntaxes, or deliberately decided to create them.
Of course, this is a continuum. Some languages (French, for example) are regulated by government bodies like l'Académie Française. Some (like Korean or Cherokee) have had writing systems created for them but otherwise have evolved naturally.
Constructed languages, or conlangs for short, stand at the other end of the spectrum: a single person (or a small group) defines the vocabulary, designs the syntax, and deliberately decides to create a language. Why would someone want to do this when there are so many "real" languages to learn? The reasons are legion: from the simple artistic desire to play with linguistic concepts to the obsession to provide the world with a universal language. Conlangers (those who construct languages) bring a myriad of skills, tastes, and goals to the art and craft of conlanging. Conlanging is a worldwide phenomenon practiced by people of all ages. It is hoped that this exhibit will provide a glimpse into the fascinating world of conlangs and those who take part in this art. As J.R.R. Tolkien may have said in Quenya: Á harya alassë! Enjoy!
(Top left) Invent a new language anyone can understand.
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “Challenges to Young Poets” (excerpt)
(Top right) My language! heavens!
I am the best of them that speak this speech,
Were I but where 'tis spoken.
~ Shakespeare, The Tempest (Act I, Scene 2)
(middle left, quote only) La plus part des occasions des troubles du monde sont grammairiennes.
The greater part of the world’s troubles are due to disputes about grammar.
~ Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Book 2
(Middle, left w/photo) …language is not the frosting, it’s the cake.
~ Tom Robbins, “What is the Function of Metaphor?” Wild Ducks Flying Backward
(Middle, center) But language is wine upon his lips.
~ Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room
(Middle right) We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.
~ Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
(Middle left, quote only) ...und in irgend einer fernen Zukunft wird es eine neue Sprache, zuerst als Handelssprache, dann als Sprache des geistigen Verkehres überhaupt, für Alle geben, so gewiss, als es einmal Luft-Schifffahrt giebt.
...and in a future as far removed as one may wish, there will be a new language which will first serve as a means of business communication, later as a vehicle for intellectual relations, just as certainly as there will be some day travel by air.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche, “Anzeichen höherer und niederer Cultur,” Menschliches, Allzumenschliches (1876) (Nietzsche’s skeptical late-nineteenth-century prophecy of the possibility of both an international language and air travel.)
(Bottom) Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality
(Dr. Seuss) “In the places I go there are things that I see
“That I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.
“I’m telling you this ‘cause you’re one of my friends.
“My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!
~Dr. Seuss, On Beyond Zebra!
(small rectangular disclaimer; place in one bottom corner of case please):
NOTE: Translations from The Bible (Genesis 11:1-9 (Tower of Babel text) and Genesis 6:6-7) should not be taken as an endorsement of any specific religion. The use of verses from The Bible for illustrative purposes is due to the prevalence of translations of this work across both time and languages.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
~ Noam Chomsky, Syntactic Structures (Chomsky cites this sentence as one which makes no semantic sense but can make grammatical sense.)
Brian Dettmer
Imagining Language,
2012,
Hardcover book, acrylic varnish, ink jet print, frame,
9-1/4” x 8-1/4” x 1-5/8” (book), 15-1/8” x 12-1/8” x 3/4" (framed print)
Image Courtesy of the Artist and Toomey Tourell Fine Art
We've recently adopted this English Language programme for school children, and are running demo lessons for local kids. This was the first.
Seine netting for breakfast on Four Mile Beach, Port Douglas. This bloke, his son and a mate had come down from Mareeba way for the long weekend at Port.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. – More than 3,000 students from across California visited the Presidio of Monterey on May 13 for DLIFLC’s Language Day. Students, educators and other participants were treated to stage performances, classroom displays and ethnic cuisine, highlighting the cultures of the many foreign languages taught here.
Official Presidio of Monterey Web site
Official Presidio of Monterey Facebook
PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
Photo by Hiro Chang
The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center opened its doors to the public on May 15 for its annual Language Day event.
The event showcased the cultures of the different departmental languages being taught here through dance, skits and fashion shows.
Exhibits were also presented throughout the school grounds with local Monterey ethnic vendors selling their local cuisines to the customers.
Nearly 2,000 high school students and teachers attended Language Day.
Photo by Hiro Chang, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs
The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center opened its doors to the public on May 15 for its annual Language Day event.
The event showcased the cultures of the different departmental languages being taught here through dance, skits and fashion shows.
Exhibits were also presented throughout the school grounds with local Monterey ethnic vendors selling their local cuisines to the customers.
Nearly 2,000 high school students and teachers attended Language Day.
22nd August, 2015 is the JAYANTI of GOSWAMI TULSIDAS, one of the Greatest Hindu Saint-Poet in Hindi-in India and World Literature. A composer of several popular works, he is best known as the author of The Greatest Epic ShriRamcharitmanas, a retelling of the Maharshi Valmiki’s Sanskrit Ramayan based on Bhagwan Shri Ram's life in the vernacular Awadhi. Tulsidas spent most of his life in the city of VARANASI. The TULSI GHAT on the Ganges River in Varanasi is named after him. He founded the SANKATMOCHAN Temple dedicated to GOD HANUMAN in Varanasi, believed to stand at the place where he had the sight of Lord Hanuman. The impact of Tulsidas and his works on the art, culture and society in India is widespread and is seen to date in vernacular language, RAMLILA Plays, Hindustani Classical Music, Popular Music, Movies and Television Series.
Tulsidas was born in 1532 in RAJAPUR (Present day CHITRAKOOT, Uttar Pradesh), a village on the banks of river YAMUNA, on the border between two states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradseh. His parents were Hulsi and Atmaram Dubey. Tulsidas was born after staying in the womb for twelve months. He had all thirty two teeth in his mouth at birth. His health and looks like that of a five-year-old boy and he did not cry at the time of his birth but uttered Ram instead. He was therefore named Ram-bola. He was born under the Abhuktamula constellation, which according to hindu jyotish astrology, causes immediate danger to the life of father. Due to the inauspicious (astrological configuration) events at the time of his birth, he was abandoned by his parents on the fourth night and sent away with Chuniya/Muniya, a female servant of Hulsi. Chuniya took the child to her village Haripur and looked after him for five and a half years after which she died. Rambola was left to fend for himself as an impoverished orphan and wandered from door to door begging for alms.
Rambola was adopted by NARHARIDAS. He was given the virakta diksha (Vairagi initiation) with the new name of TULSIDAS. When he was seven years old, his Upanayan Sankar (sacred thread ceremony) was performed by Narharidas at Ayodhya (a pilgrimage-site related to Lord Ram). Tulsidas started his learning at Ayodhya. After some time, he came to the sacred city of VARANASI and studied Sankrit grammer, four Vedas, six Vedangas, Jyotisha and the six schools of hindu philosophy over a period of 15-16 years from Guru SHESHA SANATANA. Shesha Sanatana, who was based at the Panchaganga Ghat in Varasani, was a friend of Narharidas and a renowned scholar on literature and philosophy. After completing his studies, Tulsidas came back to his birthplace Rajapur with the permission of Shesha Sanatana. Here he found that his family was no more, with his parents dead. Tulsidas performed the Shraddha ceremony of his parents. He started living in his ancestral home and narrating the Katha of Ramayan in Chitrakoot. Tulsidas started the RAMLILA plays, a folk-theatre adaption of Ramayan.
Tulsidas was married to RATNAVALI, a daughter of Dinbandhu Pathak, belonged to Mahewa village of Kaushambi district. Once when Tulsidas had gone to a Lord Hanuman temple, Ratnavali went to her father’s home with her brother. When Tulsidas came to know this, he swam across the YAMUNA River in the night to meet his wife. Rantavali chided Tulsidas for this, and remarked that if Tulsidas was even half as devoted to God as he was to her body of flesh and blood, he would have been redeemed. Tulsidas left her instantly and left for the holy city PRAYAG. Here, he renounced the Grihastha (householder’s life) stage and became a SADHU (Hindu ascetic).
Tulsidas used to visit the woods outside Varanasi for his morning ablutions with the water of pot. On his return to the city, he used to offer the remaining water to a certain tree. This quenched the thirst of a PRETA (a type of ghost believed to be ever thirsty for water), who appeared to Tulsidas and offer him a boon. Tulsidas said wished to see Bhagwan Ram with his eyes, to which the Preta responded that it was beyond him. However, the Preta said that he could guide Tulsidas to HANUMAN, who could grant the boon Tulsidas asked for. The Preta told Tulsidas that Hanuman comes everyday disguised in the mean attire of a leper to listen to his Ram-Katha, he is the first to arrive and last to leave. That evening Tulsidas noted that the first listener to arrive at his discourse was an old leper, who sat at the end of the gathering. After the Ram-Katha was over, Tulsidas quietly followed the leper to the woods. In the woods, at the spot where the Sankat Mochan Temple stands today, Tulsidas firmly fell at the leper's feet, shouting "I know who you are" and "You cannot escape me". At first the leper feigned ignorance but Tulsidas did not relent. Then the leper revealed his original form of LORD HANUMAN and blessed Tulsidas. When granted a boon, Tulsidas told Hanuman he wanted to see Bhagwan Shri Ram face to face. Hanuman told him to go to Chitrakoot where he would see God Ram with his own eyes.
Tulsidas followed the instruction of Hanumanji and started living in an Ashram at RAMGHAT in CHITRAKOOT. One day Tulsidas went to perform the Parikrama (circumambulation) of the KAMADGIRI Mountain. He saw two Princes, one dark and the other fair, dressed in green robes pass by mounted on horsebacks. Tulsidas was enraptured at the sight; however he could not recognize them and took his eyes off them. Later Hanumanji asked Tulsidas if he saw Ram and his brother Lakshman on horses. Tulsidas was disappointed and repentful. Hanumanji assured Tulsidas that he would have the sight of Ram once again in the next morning. On the next morning, Wednesday, Shri Ram again appeared to Tulsidas, this time as a Child. Tulsidas was making sandalwood paste when a child came and asked for sandalwood Tilak (a religious mark on the forehead). This time Hanumanji gave a hint to Tulsidas and he had a full view of Bhagwan Shri Ram. Tulsidas was so charmed that he forgot about the sandalwood. Child Ram took the sandalwood paste and put a Tilak himself on his forehead and Tulsidas' forehead before disappearing.
Tulsidas, in the year 1575, started composing the ShriRamcharitmanas in Ayodhya on Tuesday, Ramnavami day (birthday of Bhagwan Shri Ram). He composed the Epic over two years, seven months and twenty-six days, and completed the work in 1577 on the Vivaha Panchami day (wedding day of Shri Ram and his wife Sita Devi).
Tulsidas came to Varanasi and recited the Ramcharitmanas to Lord Shiva (Vishwanath) and Goddess Parvati (Annapurna) at the Kashi Vishwanath Temple. A popular legend goes that the Brahmins of Varanasi, who were critical of Tulsidas for having rendered the Sanskrit Ramayan in the vernacular awadhi, decided to test the worth of the work. A manuscript of the Ramcharitmanas was kept at the bottom of pile of Sanskrit scriptures in the sanctum sanctorum of the Vishvanath temple in the night and the doors of the sanctum sanctorum were locked. In the morning when the doors were opened, the Ramcharitmanas was found at the top of the pile. The words Satyam Shivam Sundaram (Sanskrit: सत्यं शिवं सुन्दरम्, literally "truth, auspiciousness, beauty") were inscribed on the manuscript with the Signature of Lord Shiva. The words were also heard by the people present.
Tulsidas’s composed & written literatures :-
(1) ShriRamcharitmanas (2) Kavitawali (3) Geetawali (4) Dohawali (5) Vinayawali (6) Krishna Geetawali (Krishnawali) (7) Vinay Patrika (8) Vairagya Sandipani (9) Barvai Ramayan (10) Parvati Mangal (11) Janaki Mangal (12) Ramlala Nahachhu (13) Ramagya Prashna (14) Tulsi Satsai (15) Sahitya Ratna (Ratna Ramayan) (16) Shri Ram Stuti/Vandana/Ramavatar (17) Hanuman Chalisa (18) Hanuman Ashtak (Sankatmochan Hanumanashtak) (19) Bajrang Baan (20) Hanumanji Ki Aarti (21) Hanuman Bahuk (22) Hanumat Stavan (23) Hanuman Kavach.
Tulsidas died at the Assi Ghat on the bank of River Ganga, Varanasi in 1623.