{"id":5476,"date":"2017-05-24T13:17:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T10:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/?p=5476"},"modified":"2017-05-24T13:17:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T10:17:58","slug":"hindu-press-international-may-24-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/sanatana-dharma\/hindu-press-international\/hindu-press-international-may-24-2017","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Press International- May 24, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tokyo’s Invisible Ganeshas<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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\nHowever, the journey over mountains and oceans from India via China to the Japanese archipelago transformed these deities both in their physical representations and metaphysical meanings. Consequently, for the average Japanese, the Hindu underpinnings of the deities they so often genuflect before at temples have become more or less invisible. Neither the names nor the appearance of the deities betray their origins to the uninitiated. In the case of Ganesha this invisibility is literal, since statues of the elephant-headed deity are almost never displayed public. He is considered so powerful that beholding him can be dangerous and his icons are secreted away, sometimes not even seen by the priests themselves. The juushoku or head priest of Matsuchiyama Shoden, Hirata Shinjyun, confesses to never having looked at the temple’s statue of Ganesha. In fact, the last time it was seen by human eyes was following World War II, when it was extracted from its underground wartime hiding place, and placed in an inner sanctum that has remained shut since. The priest says the secrecy surrounding the deity adds to the belief in the efficacy of its power.<\/p>\n

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Rediscovering India: The British Legacy of India Part 3<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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INDIA, May 23, 2017 (Slideshare by Arindam Bandyopadhyay): One of the most extraordinary examples of whitewashing of history is the sustained, continuing deletion of two centuries of massive recurrent, man made famine in British India from British and world history. How did these famines occur? The main reason was not bad weather or natural causes but rather the breaking up of India’s indigenous crop patterns. The British replaced food crops such as rice and wheat and instead forced Indian farmers to produce jute, cotton, tea and oil seeds, which they needed as raw materials for their home industries. The implication of this in times of shortages was catastrophic, as the famine figures show.<\/p>\n

Slideshow and written text for Part 3 at ”source” above as well as access to Parts 1 & 2<\/p>\n

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Hindu University of America is Launching Online Certificate, Masters and Doctoral Program on Conflict, Peace and Hindu Philosophy<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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ORLANDO, USA, May 17, 2017 (press release): The Mahatma Gandhi Center for Nonviolence, Human Rights and World Peace at the Hindu University of America is launching online Certificate, Masters and Doctoral program in Conflict, Peace and Hindu Philosophy (CPH) from July 2017. The program aims at enriching the discipline of Conflict and Peace Studies by providing a Hindu perspective. The dominant perspectives in conflict resolution prioritize rigid notions on peace and security, often at the cost of other perspectives from pluralistic cultures and traditions. The program aims to widen the discipline by drawing upon the finer principles of Hinduism. It brings into focus ideas and contributions of the philosophers, leaders and Yogis from Dharmic traditions.<\/p>\n

For details of the program see ”source” above.<\/p>\n

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Daily Inspiration<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Hinduism is not a definite dogmatic creed, but a vast, complex and subtly unified mass of spiritual thought and realization. Its tradition of the Godward endeavor of the human spirit has been continuously enlarging through the ages.
\n— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975),<\/b> philosopher, statesmen and second President of India<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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