January, 1997
Digital Dharma
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January, 1997
25 articles
Health & Ayurveda
Hospital Hopes and Hazards
By Devananda Tandavan Historically the hospital has been an institution created as a central place to give nursing care,…
January, 1997
EVOLUTIONS
BORN: Medicine Wheel, a silvery-white buffalo calf on a South Dakota, USA, ranch, May 9, 1996. Native American Indians r…
Temples & Pilgrimage
City of 10 Million Icons
BY CHOODIE SHIVARAM, BANGALORE Kammasandra was just an obscure town 100 km from Bangalore until Sri Samba Shivamurthy Sw…
Culture & Society
E-mails from Heaven?
Mediums–persons able to go into a trance and speak out messages from the Gods, devas or people “on the other…
Philosophy & Scripture
Personal Peace Leads to Universal Peace
By Karunamayi Sri Vijayeswari Devi My wish is universal peace, to be achieved through the cultivation of individual peac…
Philosophy & Scripture
Booted Out of Bhutan
By DR. HARI BANSH JHA, NEPAL Religious and political persecution is alleged to have forced 100,000 Hindus from Bhutan, t…
Culture & Society
Will They Ever See the Valley?
A handful of pandits returned to the Kashmir Valley in early October from the bleak camps of Jammu in which […]
Philosophy & Scripture
Death and Dying
The Transition Called Death: Each of us must ultimately confront our mortality. For Hindus, this is not a fearsome prosp…
Publisher's Editorials
Chronicling Hinduism’s Modern Experience
By Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Just days before we went to press, the ancient rajput painting to the right was compl…
Philosophy & Scripture
Great Departure
By the Editor General George Patton of World War II fame, no stranger to personal reincarnational remembrances (he claim…
January, 1997
Letters
Media Kinships Hinduism is like the center-of-gravity doll which regains its equilibrium howsoever it be disturbed. Wave…
January, 1997
Diaspora
SOUTH AFRICA Buddha, Most Merciful South africans were blessed when the dalai lama paid them a rare visit in August. [&h…
January, 1997
Quotes & Quips
"AS YOU WOULD NOT BARK BACK AT A DOG, DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME ARGUING WITH FOOLOSH PEOPLE." SAGE YOGASWAMI [&he…
Opinion
It’s Easier to be Hindu in Ireland than India
BY JAY KESHAVAPPA SHANKAR It is easier for me to bring up my children to be Hindus in the West […]
Culture & Society
Getting Heard in America
By Donna Abu-Nasr (AP) Brahim Hooper travels around the country to teach Muslims how to make their voices heard, America…
Philosophy & Scripture
Joint Family at Risk
By CHOODIE SHIVARAM, BANGALORE If current trends continue, the turn of the 21st century may witness the extinction of on…
Philosophy & Scripture
Books Bouy Up Hindu Women
By V. G. JULIE RAJAN, PHILADELPHIA Of a sudden, a burgeoning interest in the status of Hindu women has produced [&hellip…
January, 1997
Briefly . . .
GANAPATI PUJA IS NEITHER misconduct nor grounds for discipline. So ruled a Kerala court in the case of a government [&he…
Temples & Pilgrimage
Kerala Controversy
By VRINDAVANAM S. GOPALAKRISHNAN The Kerala police anticipated resistence when they made their move to enforce a court-o…
The Arts
Happy Roman New Year
Today’s worldwide civil calendar was actually the making of the Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar, derived from Egyptia…
Personal Practice
Dexterity to the Max
By LAVINA MELWANI, NEW YORK If Ganesha is everywhere–even in a grain of rice–He is surely in the tip of [&he…
Philosophy & Scripture
USA’s “Peace Pilgrim”
Renunciation in India is arduous enough, even though there it has been the most esteemed spiritual path since before rec…
Health & Ayurveda
72 – Hour Marthon Dance
BY JENNIFER M. FLAKER What drives a marathoner to go the extra mile? When Vidya Chandra Sekhar set a new […]
Hindu Priesthood
Women Priestesses
By V.L. MANJUL, PUNE The City of Pune, in Western India, has not only been a prominent cultural center, but […]