LIVING HERITAGE

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What or who are the Parsis? The Zoroastrian heritage of a "Life enhancing not a world denying faith" creates a Religion of Action which provides the foundation of daily life among the Parsi Zoroastrians.
Zoroastrianism gives importance to both the Menok and Getig, the spiritual and material aspects of existence and, therefore, provides a holistic approach to life.

Unrecognised by most adherents of the religion, the faith sub-consciously provides a deep inner core from which to draw strength for honesty, helpfulness, sincerity, happiness and success.

From its inception the most pressing need of the Parzor Project was to immediately start recording the intangible aspects of Parsi Zoroastrian heritage, as the most valuable resource people, both priests and laity, are of advanced age. The scope is wide and it is often a race against time. The Project needs to record intangible heritage before knowledgeable people are lost- priests, musicians, artists and traditional medical practitioners.
The living heritage of the Parsi Zoroastrians is being recorded by Parzor across India on Beta format and is stored in the Parzor archives for use by researchers and scholars from India and abroad. So far there has been a deliberate attempt to first record the smaller pockets of Parsi settlements since these especially in the interior regions are in grave danger of disappearing. [READ MORE]