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The Sri Venkateswara Temple, Pittsburgh, inaugurated on June 8, 1977, and the Hindu Temple Society of North America in New York, consecrated on July 4, 1977, became the first Hindu temples in the U.S. built by Indian immigrants. In the 1980s and 1990s, temples were built in nearly all major metropolitan areas.
Acharya M. R. Rajesh, [1] [2] (born 31 May 1972), better known as Acharyasri Rajesh is an Indian Spiritual Guru, Vedic Educator, and Author, Founder of World's first Veda temple. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] As he was born in an orthodox Namboodiri family, he was able to learn Vedas from his father Subramanyan Namboodiri himself.
The Hindu calendar is based on a geocentric model of the Solar System. A large part of this calendar is defined based on the movement of the Sun and the Moon around the Earth (saura māna and cāndra māna respectively). Furthermore, it includes synodic, sidereal, and tropical elements. Many variants of the Hindu calendar have been created by ...
A former synagogue of the Herzl Congregation is now the Odessa Brown Neighborhood Health Clinic. Congregation Beth Shalom, Seattle [1] Temple Beth Shalom, Spokane This merges the earlier Temple Emanu-El (who founded the state's first synagogue, opened September 12, 1892) and Keneseth Israel [1]: 14–15
The Vedic solar months were grouped into six by the names given to the months. The "sweet" months – Madhu and Madhava – corresponded to spring. The "bright" months to summer, the "cloudy" names to monsoons, the "sapful" nomenclature for autumn harvest, the "forceful" to winter, and the "ascetic" names – Tapas and Tapasya – reminding of ...
The emphasis in Vedic texts here is the jnana-kanda (knowledge, philosophical speculations) in the Upanishadic part of the Vedas, not its karma-kanda (ritual injunctions). [82] Along with the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita and Brahma Sutras are the central texts of the Advaita Vedanta tradition, providing the truths about the identity of Atman ...
The school's main temple, the Ling Shen Ching Tze Temple in Redmond. The main shrine in the main temple. The True Buddha School (Chinese: 真佛宗; pinyin: Zhēn Fó Zōng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chin-hu̍t-chong) is a Mahayana Buddhist sect founded in the 1970s.
Adhika-māsa (Sanskrit: अधिकमास, romanized: Adhikamāsa), also called the Adhik-mas, Mala-māsa, and the Purushottama-māsa, is an intercalated month [1] in the Hindu calendar that is inserted to keep the lunar calendar aligned with the months of the year.