Weekend MAURITIUS, February 26, 2006: A 108-feet-murthi of Lord Siva, in standing posture, has been consecrated at Ganga Talao, the Hindu sacred lake at Grand Bassin in Mauritius. Built by Indian artisans, this Deity now overlooks the whole sacred lake, a traditional place of pilgrimage on Maha Sivaratree every year that draws thousands of devotees. The consecration ceremony was organized…
www.archaeologyonline.net USA, March 3, 2006: This website (“source”) by David Osborn is informative and well illustrated. It says in the introduction, “A vast number of statements and materials presented in the ancient Vedic literatures can be shown to agree with modern scientific findings, and they also reveal a highly developed scientific content in these literatures. The great cultural wealth of…
jurist.law.pitt.edu CANADA, March 2, 2006: (HPI note: This decision would also impact other displays of religious symbols in Canadian schools, such as bindis.) The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday unanimously overturned a Quebec school board’s ban on carrying Sikh ceremonial daggers at school, ruling that it infringed students’ religious freedom under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Gurbaj…
www.hinduvoice.net SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, March 3, 2006: For those following the California textbook issue, a comprehensive report on who said what for and against during the long meeting is posted at “source” above.
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www.indianexpress.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, March 1, 2006: US President George W. Bush will hold a meeting with nine prominent persons representing five religions tomorrow including a Shia leader from Lucknow, a Tibetan monk and a Dalit scholar. Bush will meet these religious leaders on Thursday afternoon following the lunch hosted by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. This list includes Mohammed Ammar…
vivekananda@btinternet.com LONDON, ENGLAND, March 6, 2006: Jay Lakhani of Vivekananda Centre reports: “This afternoon the Department of Education and Skills in London held a conference on Hinduism and Religious Education. The conference was well attended by Hindu bodies and teachers. The suggestions made by myself and Hindu Council UK were well received. Compared to the severe struggle faced by Hindus…
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,…
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…
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…