Gedong Bagus Oka

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Born

Ni Wayan Gedong

(1921-10-03)October 3, 1921

DiedNovember 14, 2002(2002-11-14) (aged 81)^[1]

Gedong Bagus Oka

Personal life
Born	Ni Wayan Gedong (1921-10-03)October 3, 1921
Died	November 14, 2002(2002-11-14) (aged 81)^[1]
Honors	Parisada Hindu Dharma
Religious life
Religion	Hinduism

Gedong Bagus Oka (October 3, 1921 – November 14, 2002) was a Hindu reformer and philosopher in Indonesia. She was one of the foremost authorities on Agama Hindu Dharma and started the Parisada Hindu Dharma Indonesia movement in the 1980s.^[2] She was a recipient of the 1994 Jamnalal Bajaj Award.^[3]

Gedong was born with the name Ni Wayan Gedong in Karangasem as the daughter of the couple I Komang Layang and Ni Komang Pupuh, a member of the village council. Unlike most females at the time, the young Gedong was given the freedom by her parents to undertake all of her wishes. She was allowed to go to school. So she went to study in Yogyakarta and Jakarta.

At school in Yogyakarta, she had the liberty to study Christianity. Her understanding about Christianity and her birth in the Hindu tradition caused her to befriend Mahatma Gandhi. They discussed Christian and Hindu philosophy.^[4]

The understanding about these two religions made her a follower of Hindu spirit, that is ahiṁsā (non violence) and satya (truth).

References

↑ Ibu Gedong Bagoes Oka: 1921 – 2002 Bali Loses its Philosopher-Stateswoman Archived 2016-08-06 at the Wayback Machine. balidiscovery.com. November 18, 2002
↑ Archived 2006-09-24 at the Wayback Machine (Indonesian) – ENSIKLOPEDI TOKOH INDONESIA
↑ "Jamnalal Bajaj Award". Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation. 2015. Retrieved October 13, 2015.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
↑ Ramstedt, Martin (2000) Gedong Bagoes Oka. IIAS Newsletter.

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v t e Jamnalal Bajaj Award winners
Constructive work	Jugatram Dave (1978) Sarla Devi and Baba Amte (1979) Gandhi Niketan Ashram (1980) Amalprava Das (1981) Gokulbhai Daulatram Bhatt (1982) Tagaduru Ramachandra Rao (1983) Popatlal Ramchandra Shah (1984) T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar (1985) Sunderlal Bahuguna (1986) Natwar Thakkar (1987) Krishnammal Jagannathan (1988) K. Janardanan Pillai (1989) Tirath Ram (1990) Dwarko Sundarani (1991) Thakurdas Bang (1992) Vichitra Narain Sharma (1993) L. N. Gopalaswami (1994) Kashinath Trivedi (1995) Manubhai Pancholi (1996) R. K. Patil (1997) Acharya Ramamurti (1998) Narayan Desai (1999) Somdutt Vedalankar (2000) Sisir Sanyal (2001) Siddharaj Dhadda (2002) Rabindra Nath Upadhyay (2003) Radhakrishna Bajaj (2004) P. Gopinathan Nair (2005) Salem Nanjundaiah Subba Rao (2006) Yashpal M. Mittal (2007) Biswanath Pattnaik (2008) Lavanam (2009) Chunilal Vaidya (2010) Ramesh Bhaiya and Vimla Bahan (2011) Jayant Mathkar (2012) G. V. Subba Rao (2013) Surendra Koulagi (2014) Man Singh Rawat (2015) Mohan Hirabai Hiralal (2016)
Science and Technology	Satish Chandra Das Gupta (1978) Jayant Shamrao Patil (1979) Anil Sadgopal (1980) A. M. M. Murugappa Chettiar (1981) Prembhai (1982) Manibhai Desai (1983) Mohan Narhari Parikh (1984) Sanjit Roy (1985) Vilas B. Salunke (1986) Sunit Dhanaji Bonde (1987) Ishwarbhai Patel (1988) T. G. K. Menon (1989) Shripad Dabholkar (1990) S. Krishnamurthy Mirmira (1991) K. Vishwanathan (1992) Dinkarrao G. Pawar (1993) V. S. Aggarwal (1994) G. Muniratnam (1995) V. S. Aggarwal (1996) S. S. Katagihallimath (1997) Devendra Kumar (1998) Ajoy Kumar Basu (1999) Bhaskar Save (2000) Anil K. Rajvanshi (2001) Arunkumar Dave (2002) Vinayak Patil (2003) Prabhakar Shankar Thakur (2004) Rajendra Singh (2005) Anil Prakash Joshi (2006) Anand Dinkar Karve (2007) Tushar Kanjilal (2008) Ayyappa Masagi (2009) Chewang Norphel (2010) Anupam Mishra (2011) Kalyan Paul (2012) Snehlata Nath (2013) Ram Kumar Singh (2014) Perumal Vivekanandan (2015) B. V. Nimbkar (2016)
Women and child welfare	Kamalabai Hospet (1980) Ramadevi Choudhury (1981) Taraben Mashruwala (1982) Pushpaben Mehta (1983) Gaura Devi (1984) Anutai Wagh (1985) Vasanti S. Roy (1986) Annapragada C. Krishna Rao (1987) Malati Choudhury (1988) Indirabai Halbe (1989) Ratan Shastri (1990) Radha Bhatt (1991) Shalini Moghe (1992) Kantaben and Harivilasben Shah (1993) Shanti Devi (1994) Vimla Bahuguna (1995) Indumati Parikh (1996) Vinoba Niketan (1997) Rajammal P. Devadas (1998) Saraswathi Gora (1999) Vidya Devi (2000) Rehmat Sultan Fazelbhoy (2001) Chitra Naik (2002) Alice Garg (2003) Sarojini Varadappan (2004) Arunaben Shankarprasad Desai (2005) Rani Bang (2006) Ashoka Gupta (2007) Phoolbasan Bai Yadav (2008) Jaya Arunachalam (2009) Shakuntaladevi Choudhary (2010) Shobhana Ranade (2011) Glenn D. Paige (2012) Vidhya Das (2013) Chennupati Vidaya (2014) Anne Ferrer (2015) Dr. N. Manga Devi (2016)
International	Pierre Parodi (1988) Danilo Dolci (1989) A. T. Ariyaratne (1990) Charles Walker (1991) Homer A. Jack (1992) Johan Galtung (1993) Gedong Bagus Oka (1994) Kamala (1995) Adolfo De Obieta (1996) Young Seek Choue (1997) Jharna Dhara Chowdhury (1998) Joseph Rotblat (1999) Desmond Tutu (2000) Satish Kumar (2001) George Willoughby (2002) Mary E. King (2003) Marie Thoeger (2004) Daisaku Ikeda (2005) Ismail Serageldin (2006) Michael Nagler (2007) Louis Campana (2008) Charles Peter Dougherty (2009) Lia Diskin (2010) Agus Indra Udayana (2011) Nighat Shafi (2012) Jean-Marie Muller (2013) Sulak Sivaraksa (2014) Minoru Kasai (2015) Rached Ghannouchi (2016)
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