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It is well known that the first presenter of Indian Culture in the West was Swami Vivekananda, who took the world by storm while appearing at the Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893. He became a rage in America, delivering lectures and talks on various aspects of Indian Philosophy and culture. This included his exposition in quite some detail of the theory and practice of Rajayoga- or Yoga as Popularly known-, which turned out to be a matter of great ...
Methodology of Educational ResearchMethodology of Educational Research is specially designed for use as a textbook by students pursuing post graduate degrees in Education, Psychology and sociology. A user-friendly edition, the main objectives is to equip students and beginning researchers with a basic and conceptual understanding of the important aspects of research in education and allied fields.
The contents of the book are based on the syllabus of educational ...
The need for Guidance and Counselling is felt the most during career choice. With our society getting industrialized so rapidly, the young student needs help with information about various jobs available to him, the requirements, responsibilities and the nature of work involved in a particular job or career. The need for counseling is enhanced with large number of students seeking admissions to colleges. Education is no more a privilege of the elite; our ...
India’s awakening in modern times started in nineteenth century and with Swami Vivekananda’s appearance in 1893 at the Parliament of Religious in Chicago, it started influencing in west. Though quite young, the mesmerized America and Europe and walked as a colossus wherever he went. He impressed giants like Max Muller, Paul Deussen and Romail Rolland, taught Yoga and gave call to develop a world religion. His mission was essentially a revolution, ...
The Hindu being one of the most ancient cultures in the world, its religion and mythology are not only immense but highly varied, colourful and interesting. The religion was not limited to one or two books, but many and many more, which included the bulky Puranas, an unlimited storehouse of all kinds of fables, legend and essentially history-based stories.
These materials are important because they have given shape to their society’s culture. Not only the ...
Buddhism has a large corpus of scripture and The Lotus Sutra is regarded as the most important of the Mahayana Buddhism which spread in most parts of the then known world, including China, Korea and Japan, where it served as the basis of Tien-tai, Tendai and Nichiren schools, the latter now very popular in the West under the name of Soka Gakkai led by the famous Daisaku Ikeda. The work bears the character of a dramatic performance, the chief interlocutor being ...
Most religions of the world have been spread with force, killing mercilessly those who did not agree to convert, the after effects of which are being experienced till date, of which the present terrorism is also a result; but the religion of Lord Buddha did not take this course and, on the contrary was invited by the Chinese to come over and teach; their scriptures were translated in very large numbers; stupas were erected one after the other; and one of their ...
Philosophy took precedence over Religion in India and there have been many philosophies in course of time, and finally the six famous came to hold: Mimamsa, Purva and Uttara the latter also known as Vedanta; Samkhya and Yoga; and Nyayan and Vaisheshika, Religious practices developed around one or the other at times modifying them to suite their ends. Gods did not hold so supreme a place in Indian thought-systems, and another concept, that of Atman and Brahman, ...
Sister Nivedita’s role in Indian Renaissance of the early 20th century as well as her contribution to freedom movements remains unrecognized till this late date, and we regard her largely as a foreigner interested in Hindu religion. In the words of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, she became not merely an interpreter of India to Europe, but even more, the inspiration of a new race of Indian students, no longer anxious to be Anglicized, but convinced that all real ...