America's first real encounter with Dharma came with the visit to America of Swami Vivekananda, who was born on January 12, 1863, and who was the chief disciple of the 19th century mystic Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and the founder of Ramakrishna Mission. He is considered a key figure in the introduction of Vedanta and Yoga in Europe and America and is also credited with raising interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a world religion during the end of the 19th century. Vivekananda is also considered to be a major force in the revival of Hinduism in modern India..
A Democratic Party activist and a U.S. Army soldier currently deployed in Afghanistan have co-founded Hindu Democrats, a Virginia-based political action committee aiming “to mobilize the Indian American bloc in the United States” to support Democratic Party candidates through the “representation of Hindu American values in American politics.”
Hindu Democrats executive director and co-founder Bharat Krishnan, a junior at American University in Washington, D.C., told India-West that his fle ...
We have just received an important update about the Center for Dharma Studies ashram currently being established in Omaha, Nebraska. By the grace of God, the generous prayers and donations of our hundreds of local supporters, and the active and enthusiastic support of the entire Hindu community nationwide: The Omaha Dharma Ashram now has a building.
They have purchased a beautiful five bedroom, three bathroom building that will contain a large meditation and satsangha hall, a Yoga room, a libra
A new prose translation of the Bhagavad Gita by Śri Śivadasa Bharati Swami with a foreword by Śri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya (Dr. Frank Morales) has just been published. This new translation was especially created for American readers new to Dharma and written in an easy to understand format.
Dr. David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shashti) writes of this translation: "Swami Śivadasa has produced a clear and easily readable prose translation of the Gita which makes this spiritual classical accessib ...
A Democratic Party activist and a U.S. Army soldier currently deployed in Afghanistan have co-founded Hindu Democrats, a Virginia-based political action committee aiming “to mobilize the Indian American bloc in the United States” to support Democratic Party candidates through the “representation of Hindu American values in American politics.”
Hindu Democrats executive director and co-founder Bharat Krishnan, a junior at American University in Washington, D.C., told India-West that his fle ...
INDIA, January 12, 2010: Every year, India celebrates Swami Vivekananda’s birthday, January 12, 1863, as Youth Day. Swami Vivekananda exhorted the people of Bharat to “be proud to call yourself a Hindu. Have muscles of iron and a heart of steel. Serve the poor, needy and ignorant like your brothers and sisters”.
When asked by youth for knowledge from the Gita, Swamiji asked them to play football to understand the holy Gita better. His idea was that only the brave and strong in every respect ...
Ventura, CA (USA) - A public talk and photo exhibit based on Audrey Kitagawa’s pilgrimage to the sacred sites of Lord Buddha and Mount Kailash will kick off the third annual International Vietnamese Buddhist Sangha Conference, an event in which hundreds of monks and nuns will gather to discuss plans for the future of Buddhism in the 21st century.
“Many who are Buddhists and friends of Buddhism would be coming to the temple these days,” said Tapovanaye Sutadhara, director of the Ventura Budd ...
A Buddhist temple run out of a Chandler, Arizona home has been banned from hosting Sunday worship services.
Chandler has barred a local Buddhist temple from holding Sunday worship services for the last three months after an investigation into neighborhood parking issues associated with the temple turned up building code violations.
The City Council could grant a permit to allow services at the Vien Minh Buddhist Temple to resume next month, albeit with a limit on the number of people who can parti ...
At Mercy Medical Center in Merced, where roughly four patients a day are Hmong from northern Laos, healing includes more than IV drips, syringes and blood glucose monitors. Because many Hmong rely on their spiritual beliefs to get them through illnesses, the hospital’s new Hmong shaman policy, the country’s first, formally recognizes the cultural role of traditional healers like Va Meng Lee, a Hmong shaman, inviting them to perform nine approved ceremonies in the hospital, including “soul ...
Hindu statesman Rajan Zed has suggested Oscar winner Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow to change the tagline of her weekly newsletter “GOOP” from “nourish the inner aspect” to “nourish the outer aspect”.
Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that Paltrow’s newsletter mostly talked about shallow substances dealing with temporal and external pleasures. When looked for words like spirituality, meditation, realization, con ...
