{"id":10569,"date":"2011-10-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/10\/19\/new-hindu-temple-in-thimphu-bhutan\/"},"modified":"2011-10-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T12:00:00","slug":"new-hindu-temple-in-thimphu-bhutan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/10\/19\/new-hindu-temple-in-thimphu-bhutan\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hindu Temple In Thimphu, Bhutan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuenselonline.com\/2010\/modules.php?name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=21085\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BHUTAN, October 11, 2011 (by Sudarshan Subedi): Work to construct the first Hindu temple in Thimphu will begin after a ground breaking or Sa-Lang ceremony was conducted yesterday. The temple will be constructed on a 2.53-acre government land at Kuenselphodrang on the way to the Buddha statue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Establishment of this temple will enrich the spiritual heritage of our country,&#8221; the Je Khenpo said. Highlighting the similarity between Buddhism and Hinduism, His Holiness said that both religions originated from the same place and have similar principles. &#8220;These two religions are interdependent and inseparable like milk and water,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>This temple is expected to contribute directly in pursuing the mission of the Hindu Dharma Samudaya of Bhutan, which is to deepen the devotees&#8217; understanding of the essence of religious values and devotional practices, chairman of the Samudaya, Dasho Meghraj Gurung said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source BHUTAN, October 11, 2011 (by Sudarshan Subedi): Work to construct the first Hindu temple in Thimphu will begin after,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}