Friday, January 1, 2010

Buddhists demand holy town status for Bodh Gaya

  • Buddhists demand holy town status for Bodh Gaya

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    • Patna
    Bodh Gaya
    • Buddhist monks have demanded that Bihar’s Bodh Gaya, the place where Lord Buddha attained enlightenment, be declared a holy town.
      Bodh Gaya should be declared a holy town as it deserves the status, Bhante P. Sivli, an official of the Mahabodhi Society of India, said.
    • Demand also rose for declaring the town a vegetarian zone. Tenzin Kunga Luding of Tibetans for a Vegetarian Society, a non-profit public charitable trust, said the government should declare Bodh Gaya a holy town as it will help his campaign to turn it into a vegetarian zone.

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Varun Gandhi to be part of youth meet - Mangalore - City - The Times of India

  • Varun Gandhi to be part of youth meet - Mangalore - City - The Times of India

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    • MANGALORE
    • BJP MP Varun Gandhi will be here on January 24, to take part in the Hindu Yuva Samavesha at Nehru Maidan, organized as part of the
    • silver jubilee celebrations of Bajrang Dal.

      Speaking to presspersons here on Friday, the convention organizing committee president Bharath Shetty and general secretary Krishnamurthy said BJP Lok Sabha member Varun Gandhi had agreed to attend the convention and address the gathering.

      As many as 50,000 Bajrang Dal cadre and youth from Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Kasaragod districts were expected to take part in the programme.

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Hinduism Today Magazine - Hindu Press International » With Cremation on The Rise, Other Alternatives Appear

  • Hinduism Today Magazine - Hindu Press International » With Cremation on The Rise, Other Alternatives Appear

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    • The cremation rate has been on a brisk rise in the United States, in part because cremation is cheaper than burial and saves land. But powering a crematorium requires an enormous amount of gas and also sends carbon dioxide and other pollutants skyward. Enter resomation, an alternative to cremation for the eco-conscious cadaver.

      Resomation is a process that liquefies rather than burns body tissues. It uses about a sixth of the energy of cremation and has a much smaller carbon footprint, according to Sandy Sullivan, the managing director of Resomation, a company in Scotland that has designed a resomation machine.
    • Resomation was first proposed for use in Europe as a method of disposing of cows infected by bovine spongiform encephalopathy. The corpse is placed in a pressurized chamber. The vessel is then filled with water and potassium hydroxide, creating a highly alkaline solution, and heated to 330 degrees. After about three hours, all that’s left are a soft, white calcium phosphate from bone and teeth and a light brown primordial soup of amino acids and peptides. Bodies buried underground decompose in the same way, albeit over many years and aided by microorganisms.

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Hinduism Today Magazine - Hindu Press International » Swami Satyananda Saraswati Attains Mahasamadhi

  • Hinduism Today Magazine - Hindu Press International » Swami Satyananda Saraswati Attains Mahasamadhi

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    • Swami Satyananda Saraswati, the founder of the world famous Bihar School of Yoga (Munger), took Mahasamadhi on Saturday at Rikhia Dham in Deoghar. According to the tradition for Paramahansas, ashodashi puja (sixteen day ritual) will be observed at Rikhiapeeth for Paramahansaji which will culminate in the final puja on December 22.

      Swami Satyananda Saraswati was born in Almora, in the Himalayan foothills. His parents were large landowners. As a young child he experienced spontaneous spiritual experiences. In 1943 at nineteen, Swami Satyananda came to live and take sannyasa from Swami Sivananda at Sivananda Ashram in Rishikesh. There he served in different departments at the Ashram for over 12 years. He edited the ashram’s Hindi journal, wrote various articles and composed poems in both Hindi and Sanskrit. He wrote a translation and commentary in the English language of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad by Swami Sivananda.

      Upon leaving the ashram, he wandered through India, Afghanistan, Nepal, Burma and Ceylon for the next 8 years, extending his knowledge of spiritual practices. He eventually found his way to Munger, Bihar. After establishing himself there, in 1963 he founded the International Yoga Fellowship and the Bihar School of Yoga a year later.
    • December 6, 2009
    • DEOGHAR/PATNA

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सर्वे भवन्तु सुखिनः सर्वे सन्तु निरामया........... | धर्म यात्रा

  • सर्वे भवन्तु सुखिनः सर्वे सन्तु निरामया........... | धर्म यात्रा

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    • सर्वे भवन्तु सुखिनः सर्वे सन्तु निरामया ।
      सर्वे भद्राणि पश्यन्तु मा कश्चित् दुःखभाग् भवेत् ।।
      (सभी सुखी होवें, सभी रोगमुक्त रहें, सभी मंगलमय घटनाओं के साक्षी बनें, और किसी को भी दुःख का भागी न बनना पड़े ।) 
    •  इसी मंगलकामना के साथ आप सब को नववर्ष की हार्दिक 
       शुभकामनाऎँ!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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