{"id":9545,"date":"2017-10-30T16:06:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T13:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/?p=9545"},"modified":"2017-10-30T16:06:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T13:06:01","slug":"hindu-press-international-oct-30-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/sanatana-dharma\/hindu-press-international\/hindu-press-international-oct-30-2017","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Press International- Oct 30, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thais Bid Final Goodbye to Beloved King Bhumibol<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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THAILAND, October 26, 2017 (Manila Bulletin): A sea of black-clad mourners massed across Bangkok’s historic heart early Thursday as funeral rituals began for King Bhumibol Adulyadej, a revered monarch whose passing after a seven-decade reign has left Thailand bereft of its only unifying figure. As dawn broke an estimated 200,000 Thais had gathered around the Grand Palace to bid an emotional farewell to a monarch known as ”father of the nation”, silently packing the pavements, many clutching portraits of the beloved late king.<\/p>\n

The golden spires of a spectacular US$90 million cremation site, purpose-built for the funeral, were bathed in light as Bhumibol’s son and heir, King Maha Vajiralongkorn, joined Buddhist monks to start a day of sombre processions, colorful pageantry and religious ceremony. The lavish event gives the public a chance to say goodbye to a king who was crowned in 1950 and towered over decades of Thai history, before his death last October aged 88 seeded uncertainty in a country ruled by a divisive junta.<\/p>\n

More at ”source” above.<\/p>\n

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Inside the Artisan Workshops Gearing up for the Thai King’s Funeral<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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BANGKOK, THAILAND, October 25, 2017 (by Oscar Holland, Kocha Olarn, CNN) Preparations for the late Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s cremation have been underway for the past year. In an old and cluttered studio outside Bangkok, sculptor Chatmongkol Insawang has been hard at work carefully shaping the trunk of the elephant-headed god, Phra Phikanet (the Thai name for Ganesha). The Hindu Deity forms just a small part of his multi-layered clay artwork. ”Phra Phikanet is the God of art, the God of success,” Insawang explained. ”Phra Phikanet is (also) the God who will send the king to heaven.” Insawang is one of hundreds of artists — both professionals and amateurs — who have been enlisted to create sculptures for the king’s funeral. Tasked with crafting more than 500 works for this week’s extravagant five-day ceremony, some of the sculptors have been working daily for almost a year.<\/p>\n

Most of the completed artworks — the largest of which took between three and five months to complete — have already been transported to the royal funeral pyre. Built to resemble the sacred center of the Hindu universe, Mount Meru, the lavish 166-foot-tall pyre has been erected in central Bangkok, next to the Grand Palace. While Thailand is predominantly Buddhist, many elements of the funeral — including Insawang’s sculpture of Phra Phikanet — draw on Hindu traditions. While state funerals have been held for other Thai royals in recent years, this week’s is set to be the biggest in living memory. The Thai government has set aside 3 billion baht (about US$90 million) for the ceremony.<\/p>\n

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Nepal Criminalizes Christian Conversion and Evangelism<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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NEPAL, October 25, 2017 ( Christianity Today): Last week, Nepal enacted a law to curb evangelism by criminalizing religious conversion, joining neighboring countries like India and Pakistan, where the region’s small-but-growing Christian minority faces government threats to their faith. The ”Nepali government [has] taken a regressive step as this law severely restricts our freedom of expression and our freedom of religion or belief,” said Tanka Subedi, chair of the national Religious Liberty Forum, to Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW). The pastor is 1 of an estimated 375,000 Christians living in the former Hindu kingdom.<\/p>\n

The criminal code bill, which the Nepali parliament approved in August and President Bidhya Devi Bhandari signed last Monday, establishes further constitutional protections for Hinduism (80% of the population practices) by restricting religious conversion and ”hurting of religious sentiment,” or blasphemy. According to a Nepali Christian site, a section of the new law reads: No one should involve or encourage in conversion of religion. No one should convert a person from one religion to another religion or profess their own religion and belief with similar intention by using or not using any means of attraction and by disturbing religion or belief of any ethnic groups or community that being practiced since ancient times.<\/p>\n

Much more at ”source” above from this Christian publication.<\/p>\n

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Daily Inspiration<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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\"\"Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru’s words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself. Therefore the Vaishnavas speak of guru, Krishna and Vishnu equally.
\n— Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa (1836-1886)<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thais Bid Final Goodbye to Beloved King Bhumibol Source THAILAND, October 26, 2017 (Manila Bulletin): A sea of black-clad mourners massed across Bangkok’s historic heart early Thursday as funeral rituals began for King Bhumibol Adulyadej, a revered monarch whose passing after a seven-decade reign has left Thailand bereft of its only unifying figure. As dawn broke an estimated 200,000 Thais had gathered around the Grand Palace to bid an emotional farewell to a monarch known as ”father of the nation”, silently packing the pavements, many clutching portraits of the beloved late king. The golden spires of a spectacular US$90 million <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindu-press-international","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}