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Hum D Bui concludes the series on CaoDai with a look at what it says about how past deeds set the course for the next life in comparison to other religions. Most religions conceive human beings as consisting of three parts: the physical body, the soul, and the spirit. Hinduism calls the spirit, "Brahman," "Atman" or the absolute (metaphysical) self and the soul "jiva," or the miniature self. Buddhism...
RANCHI, JHARKHAND, INDIA, October 6, 2008: An elephant attacked houses of people allegedly involved in damaging a temple of Lord Ganesha in Jharkhand and ensured their arrest. According to media reports on Saturday, a wild elephant attacked houses of around 10 people who on August 16 had damaged the temple situated in Mahudi hills of Hazaribagh district, around 120 km from here. Later the police arrested...
KATHMANDU, NEPAL, October 8, 2008: Mahanavami, the ninth day of Dashain, is being celebrated by followers of Hinduism around the globe. Devotees throng the temples of Durga on this day which marks the last day of Navaratri festival that started with Ghatasthapana. Thousands of people have queued up to worship the Goddess Taleju at the historic temple of Taleju located at Hanumandhoka from early this...
A new Jain temple was opened in California, the United States last weekend. Adherents of this faith share a belief in reincarnation and nirvana with Hinduism, but differs in quite some ways from it nonetheless. The new temple had a tremendously high price tag to it, $20 million. It is likely to attract followers, tourists [...]
NEW YORK, USA, October 4, 2008: A decision of parents to cremate their deceased son has sparked religious turmoil. Shafayet Reja, the son of a a Muslim father and a mother who was raised Hindu, died September 10 in a car accident; and his parents decided to follow the Hindu tradition of cremation rather than burying the body in a shroud as Islam prescribes. The couple, Mina and Farhad Reja, say that...
MADURAI, INDIA, October 5, 2008: A seventh-century sculpture of Lord Bhairava, 125 cm tall and 52 cm broad, has been unearthed from the Pachaiyaru river bed at Azhagapuri near Palani in the district, officials said. Narayanamurthy, the archaeological expert who unearthed the granite stone sculpture of the Lord, said that a Shiva temple once stood where the river now runs, but it has been either washed...
NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 4, 2008: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is lending $150 million to India to help revitalize the khadi industry, which has suffered from poor production and marketing techniques. A $2 million grant will also be provided by the Japan Special Fund to support the implementation and monitor the progress of the loan-funded reform package. Increased production of the widely-revered...
MARSEILLE, FRANCE, September 29, 2008 At St. Mauront Catholic School, 80 percent of the students are Muslim. "There is respect for our religion here," one girl explains. "In the public school, I would not be allowed to wear a veil." France has only four Muslim schools, and some of the country's 8,847 Roman Catholic schools have become refuges for Muslims seeking high academic standards and a spiritual...
Immediately after Salman and family performed the Ganesh Pooja not long ago on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi, Mufti Manjar Hassan Khan Ashrafi Misbahi, the chief of Darul-Uloom Hijaziya Chishti, Mumbai, issued a fatwa against the Khan family. When Salim Khan protested, the family was threatened with a boycott.
From: IslamPlague NonBelievers, Christians, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Stand up for your right to freedom. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoH4I9HyJCk Mosquewatch
It's too bad that youtube didn't exist in the 1960s when all of the hippies thought that Hinduism was just another peaceful, enlightened religion:BHUBANESWAR: The brutal rape and murder of a Hindu orphan by Hindu fanatics, who thought she was...
MASSENA, NEW YORK, October 2, 2008: A group of parents and religious leaders in upstate New York want yoga classes out of public schools, saying the instruction violates boundaries between church and state. Two high school teachers began using yoga last year to help students relieve stress before exams. Special education teacher Martha Duchscherer and Spanish teacher Kerry Perretta also were developing...
LUCKNOW, INDIA, October 1, 2008: In a gesture of communal amity, Muslims visited a Hanuman temple Monday evening to participate in an Iftar party thrown by their Hindu friends, who seated them and served delicacies such as dates and deep-fried kachauries. Some 150 members from both communities participated in the event, which aimed to bridge the rift between the two communities in the backdrop of terror...
TAMIL NADU, INDIA, October 6, 2008: An excerpt from this editorial piece by journalist Francois Gautier: "I am also aghast at the one-sided coverage by the Indian media of the Christian- Hindu problem: blasts after blasts have killed hundreds of innocent Hindus in Varanasi, Delhi, Mumbai train blasts, Jaipur, etc. Yet, neither Manmohan Singh nor Sonia Gandhi have pronounced once the word "terrorism."...
