www.southeastasianarchaeology.com BURI RAM, THAILAND, May 22, 2008: Ancient statues at the Phanom Rung stone temple ruins in Buri Ram have been badly damaged and the Shiva Linga stone has been moved off its plinth. Dusit Thummaporn, chief of the Phanom Rung Historical Park in Chalerm Phrakiat district, said the heads of eleven statues of Nagas, mythical serpent-like animals, at the…
www.hinduismtoday.com Only one task to do here: find out who you are. How do you find out who you are? Dive into silence.
www.manushi-india.org NEW DELHI, INDIA, June 6, 2008: The prominent human rights organization, Manushi, issued the following press release call for protests against false charges lodged against its founder, Madhu Kishwar: “Manushi, a nationally acclaimed women’s rights and human rights organization, led by Madhu Kishwar, a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Developing Societies, has been engaged for…
www.hinduismtoday.com The mystery is no mystery to the mystic. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001)
www.cnn.com LONDON, ENGLAND, June 1, 2008: Jyoti is the Hindi word for light. It’s something Pranav Mehta has never had to live without. And he is lucky. Near where he lives in Gujarat, one of the most prosperous states in India, thousands of rural villages lack electricity or struggle with an intermittent supply at best. “Rural India is suffering a…
www.hinduismtoday.com If our country is to produce robust, intellectual, and long-lived children who believe in God, we must, in my humble opinion, learn ways to control our sense organs. Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, from his book, Yoga Mala
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com NEW YORK, USA, June 4, 2008: Rather than making long distance pilgrimages to bow at the feet of Ganesh or Vishnu, many of the Staten Island’s Hindu residents are practicing their faith a bit closer to home. About 100 families worship at the Prem Prakash Temple on Burgher Avenue, while several hundred more attend the Staten Island Hindu Temple…
beta.ph.news.yahoo.com PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA, June 5, 2008: The United States will donate nearly US$1 million for conservation of the centuries-old Bakheng temple, a famous cultural icon in Cambodia’s Angkor temple complex, the embassy said in a statement Wednesday. It said the US$978,705 will be given to the nonprofit World Monuments Fund, a New York-based archaeological group that has been doing…
www.hinduvoice.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, June 1, 2008: The Hindu Voice’s May newsletter is now available online. This month’s edition has informative and provocative pieces that are generating a good deal of online discussion. Several timely and important pieces include a story on Dilip Lakhani, recently appointed the first Hindu tutor at Eton College, Tibet’s recent human rights struggles with the Chinese…
www.thaindian.com LAHORE, PAKISTAN May 26: Most students in Pakistan are surprisingly keen to learn about Hinduism, despite the hostility that has prevailed between their country and India in the previous sixty years. According to Dr. Maureen Korp, an art critic and a religious studies scholar based in Canada who received her doctorate from the University of Ottawa, the students in…