{"id":8895,"date":"2010-03-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/03\/27\/hindu-ceremony-for-peace-in-bhutan\/"},"modified":"2010-03-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T12:00:00","slug":"hindu-ceremony-for-peace-in-bhutan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/03\/27\/hindu-ceremony-for-peace-in-bhutan\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Ceremony For Peace In Bhutan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuenselonline.com\/modules.php?name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=14944\">www.kuenselonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DAMPHU, BHUTAN, March 19, 2010: The Hindu religious ceremony, Shri Mudh Bhagwat Puran, organised by Hindu dharma foundation of Bhutan, drew some 1,500 people to the Hindu-Buddhist temple in Damphu. The six-day ceremony will promote and preserve the country&#8217;s rich cultural heritage and pray for peace, prosperity and the well being of the country, its king and people.<\/p>\n<p>An executive member of the foundation, Pundit Dr. P.L. Nirola, said that, through the ceremony, religious morals and principles will be imparted to common people. &#8220;We&#8217;ll recite religious epics like Bhagwat Mahapuran,&#8221; he said. The epic, he explained would educate people on the importance of being a good human being and teach the basic principles of dharma. <\/p>\n<p>The Hindu dharma foundation of Bhutan, formed last October, is conducting religious talks for people in the six southern districts. &#8220;We&#8217;re also collecting information on how many mandirs (Hindu temples), pundits (Hindu priests), parshalas (schools) and Sanskrit students we have in the country,&#8221; Dr Nirola said.<\/p>\n<p>Tsirang lam neten Wangdi said the ceremony promoted peaceful co-existence, compassion and reverence for all sentient beings. Religion, he said, was an important component of gross national happiness and the Constitution guaranteed religious freedom to all citizens. &#8220;It&#8217;s important to respect all religions,&#8221; the lam neten said.<\/p>\n<p>[HPI note: To read more about Bhutanese Hindus (a poignant story that begins with the expulsion from the country of one-sixth of the population and finds a new hope in America) read the Hinduism Today article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/modules\/smartsection\/item.php?itemid=5054\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.kuenselonline.com DAMPHU, BHUTAN, March 19, 2010: The Hindu religious ceremony, Shri Mudh Bhagwat Puran, organised by Hindu dharma foundation,&#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-8895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8895","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=8895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}