www.hindueducation.org SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, March 1, 2006: (HPI note: Following is a joint press release of the Hindu Education Foundation (“source”) and the Vedic Foundation following the California State Board of Education subcommittee meeting of February 27. This meeting was also covered in yesterday’s HPI, and there is some duplication of reporting.) More than a hundred Hindu parents and community leaders…
www.himalayanacademy.com KAUAI, HAWAII, March 2, 2006: The Spanish translation of Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami’s book, Dancing with Siva, is now available for free download at “source.” The translation is by Saraswati Kumara, a teacher at Mt. Shasta College in California. Everything of the original book has been translated, including the extensive lexicon, timeline of Hindu history, comparison of major world religions,…
HPI SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, March 1, 2006: (HPI note: For continuity on this issue, please reference HPI articles here and here. The following report is drawn from first-person accounts of those attending the meeting. An article on this issue, current as of February 1, which appears in the April, 2006, issue of Hinduism Today, and Hinduism Today’s testimony to the Board…
www.deccanherald.com MAURITIUS, February 25, 2006: When the Siva temples in India echo with the chaste chants of “Om Namo Sivaih” and ardent devotees make a beeline at Sivalingams all over the country to offer their prayers on the occasion of Sivaratri, the beautiful island of Mauritius too resounds with the devotional notes of “Bam Bam Bhole.” Thousands of worshippers prefer…
www.newkerala.com JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, February 26, 2006: Chanting prayers, Hindu youths took part in an annual procession ahead of the Sivaratri festival in the South African Indian township of Lenasia near here. The procession drew a crowd of more than 2,500 devotees. At each of the six Hindu temples along the eight-kilometer route in Lenasia, devotees welcomed the procession with…
www.tamilnet.com COLOMBO, SRI LANKA, February 25, 2006; Maha Sivarathiri Day religious observance is to be held in the historic Trincomalee Koneswaram Temple, Thiruketheeswaram Temple in Mannar and Kantalai Choleeswaram (Siva) Temple, about 20 km southwest off Trincomalee town on February 26th Sunday night . Arrangements are being made by the temple societies and Hindu Affairs Department, sources said. Koneswaram, Thiruketheeswaram…
HPI NEW DELHI, INDIA, February 25, 2006: Pandit Ananda Shankar Vyas of Ujjain announces the following dates for the ardha (“half,” the sixth year between the main 12 year cycle) and purna (the 12th year event). He is a Vedic scholar, astrologer and priest of international repute. He was a member of the governing body of Mahakal temple in Ujjain…
www.asianews.it BHUTAN, February, 23, 2006: HPI Note: This report comes from a Catholic news service: Bhutanese authorities are describing the launching of nationwide satellite TV services as a landmark in the history of electronic media in the tiny Himalayan Buddhist Kingdom. Minority groups see it however as a tool to entrench Buddhist cultural hegemony over the country and keep other…
www.newkerala.com BHOPAL, INDIA, February 24, 2006: People in Bhopal have decided to make 10.25 million Shivlingams for the forthcoming Maha Sivaratri festival. Unlike normal Sivalingams that are made of stone, those being made at Bhopal are from dhoop or, incense. Hundreds of devotees in Bhopal are organizing a Maharudra Yajna at Dasharat, people are making the Sivalingam from pure desi…
www.gorkhapatra.org.np KATHMANDU, NEPAL, February 23, 2006: The Pashupati Area Development Trust (PADT) has made special arrangement for providing necessary services to the devotees thronging the Pashupatinath temple on the occasion of Mahasivaratri festival. The Trust has specified various points for the devotees to enter the temple on February 26, the day of Mahasivaratri. Accordingly, the devotees can enter Pashupatinath from…