http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection Join the Hindu renaissance Tue, 21 May 2013 03:05:51 -0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss/ Publications Publications > July/August/September 2008 Do_Not_Reply@hindu.org Do_Not_Reply@hindu.org en http://www.hinduismtoday.com/images/logo.gif http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection 140 75.675675675676 http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=3065 Crossing the Ocean How breaking an ancient taboo plunged a pontiff into controversy and jeopardized his turn of sovereignty at the famed Krishna Temple in Udupi Sections of the Hindu Dharma Shastras, or law books, ban taking a voyage by sea or visiting the lands beyond India. The ancient lawmakers reasoned that travelers could not maintain their daily ritual worship while traveling, and would be polluted by the influence of foreign religion and culture upon arrival at their destination. Today the Hindu disapora has created significant Hindu communities in nearly every country of the world--communities eager for the ministry of their religious leaders and priests. Over the last two hundred years, each Hindu lineage which observed the travel restrictions--and not all of them did historically--has faced the question of keeping or changing a tradition dating back more than two thousand years. In our decentralized religion, the adaptation to a changed world has come about piecemeal--one denomination, teaching lineage or even single temple at a time. In the following story, we recount the difficulties faced within the Madhvacharaya denomination when one of their most prominent swamis "crossed the ocean" to minister to followers in Europe and America. Sun, 31 May 2009 02:50:00 -0000 http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=3065 http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=3062 Quotes and Quips There is no remedy for love but to love more. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), American transcendentalist writer and mystic Sun, 31 May 2009 02:40:00 -0000 http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=3062 http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=3063 Biography Thoreau A Sage in Early America The 19th-century writer drank deeply from the Vedas, lived in communion with nature and advocated a life of mystical simplicity Sun, 31 May 2009 02:40:00 -0000 http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=3063 http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=3064 Medicine Need We Drug America's Children? Skeptics question the existence of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorderand the pattern of giving powerful psychotropic drugs to young children A first-year medical student offers his personal observations and investigations into the controversial issue of ADHD. By Trishul Siddharthan, Florida Sun, 31 May 2009 02:40:00 -0000 http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=3064 http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=3060 Educational Insight "Difference is Real!" The Life and Teachings of Sri Madhva, One of India's Greatest Spiritual Masters By Jeffrey Armstrong (Kavindra Rishi) Sun, 31 May 2009 02:30:00 -0000 http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=3060 http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=3061 Publisher's Desk Who Is the Greatest God? Rivalries abound in the world, even among Hindus, who occasionally vie for the supremacy of their Deity: Vishnu or Siva By Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami Sun, 31 May 2009 02:30:00 -0000 http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=3061 http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=3059 Letters A Western Hindu Checking In Sun, 31 May 2009 02:10:00 -0000 http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=3059 http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=3057 Ancient Path, Modern Youth Young Hindus share their India pilgrimage stories...page 18 Sun, 31 May 2009 02:00:00 -0000 http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=3057 http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=3058 Social Change Through Education How one Hindu-American woman set out to support a village school By Keya Keita, Hawaii Sun, 31 May 2009 02:00:00 -0000 http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=3058 http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=3055 In My Opinion Inter-religious Marriage What our youth should know about the potential stumbling blocks of multi-faith marriages By Dr. Dilip Amin Sun, 31 May 2009 01:50:00 -0000 http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=3055