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The commonality between the Hindu and Buddhist religions that we discovered is truly a fitting rebuttal to the sectarian and confrontationist approach of some self-styled neo-Buddhist leaders in India who have turned professional Hindu-baiters and seek to drive wedges between two of the greatest Indic faiths.
The devotees here have no links with India and have never visited the country. Still they strictly follow religious rules and observe rituals in traditional Hindu way.
It can be said without exaggeration that the number of people in Hindi-speaking areas who will be able to read significant figures of Indian culture and popular imagination like Tulsidas, let alone Kabir, will almost disappear by the next generation.
If we consider god, the concept of god, the practices that lead one to god, and the ideas, thoughts and philosophies around the nature of the human mind the source code, then India has been the place where the doors have been thrown wide open and the coders have been given free reign.
The Apatanis staying and settled at Naharlagun and Itanagar have been celebrating “Dree”- an agricultural festival of Apatani since the year 1975.
There are four million of me in Pakistan. This Islamic Republic is the only state in the world which has officially declared me to to be a non-Muslim. Why? It’s simple. I am an Ahmadi.
A majority of Indian Muslims, not unlike South Asians of today, were averse to orthodoxy. From the Bhakti movement to folk and Sufi traditions, mullahs and pundits have not enjoyed popular legitimacy, as their alliance with power was resented and rejected by the populace.
Amid the chant of hymns and beating of odaiko by saffron-robed monks, the Dalai Lama inaugurated the Buddha Smriti Park in Patna. He also planted two saplings one brought from Bodh Gaya and the other from Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka of the sacred Bodhi tree.
The elegant-looking Srikalahasteeswaraswamy rajagopuram is now a heap of rubble. A thin crack that developed 25 years ago eventually worsened into a deep vertical fissure right on its face and ended up in the collapse of the exquisite gopuram on Wednesday night.
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"The economic crisis is causing the loss of many jobs and this calls for a huge sense of responsibility by everyone: entrepreneurs, workers, governing officials," the pope said after his weekly Angelus blessing. "Do everything possible to protect and spur job growth, assuring dignified and adequate work to sustain families."
In the 1990s, both the communities faced tremendous onslaught due to terrorism but now with good atmospherics prevailing the Kashmiri pandits are back again and reopening temple after temple thanks to the support of the local [muslim] people.
Thousands of Chinese citizens are turning to the teachings of Lord Krishna, with the internet acting as a catalyst. Four Chinese devotees have come to Bangalore to know more about the prankster god and his various leelas...
In India, a strain of Islamic orthodoxy was sometimes in open conflict with Hinduism. But in Indonesia, the new faith sat comfortably atop a Hindu-Buddhist past. Like most Indians, and unlike the Arabs, most Indonesians continued to believe that there are many paths to God.
When he was still known as Madhusudan S, Dasa's life could have been the envy of every fan of higher education in India today. His father was an Indian Institute of Science (IISc) scientist.
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