PAD to renovate Lahore Fort and Shalamar Gardens' lawns http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_1-10-2004_pg7_21 * Lights to be installed on lawns...
Humanities can’t be written off: UGC head Saturday October 2 2004 10:35 IST CHENNAI: University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman Arun Nigavekar on Friday has...
[For information -- please pass on to interested scholars. MD] ... From: secretariat [mailto:secretariat@...] Sent: 26 September 2004 1:33 AM Greetings...
King Asoka (Asoka Vardhana Maurya) was a great king, who has been praised no end. After a change of heart, witnessing the bloody havoc created by war on...
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/archaeology/archeology.asp Three Indian sites were added to the World Heritage list by the United Nations' cultural branch,...
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200410/kt2004100518562811950.htm In the relationship between Korea and India, whenever we think of our ancestors a clear...
http://www.culturelink.or.kr/doc/prof.cho.h.y'paper.doc An Archetypal Myth and Its Reality in Korean Shamanism Prof. Hung-youn Cho Department of Cultural...
REVIEWHistory Of Archaeology Tells the story of the ASI as a grand official enterprise, and it is no drab institutional history...SHAHID AMIN THE DISCOVERY OF...
Archaeology Dept gets back Warren Hastings bungalow SRAWAN KUMAR SHUKLA TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 09, 2004 02:00:11 AM ] LUCKNOW: After fighting...
Chennai, Oct 08 - The Centre has decided to withdraw the decision of the previous NDA Government to take over the ancient hill shrine of Lord Arunachaleswarar...
http://www.hindu.com/mag/2004/10/10/stories/2004101000610700.htm I HAVE seen the Great temple of Thanjavur in its many moods — in the rain, bathed in...
... Here is one of the panels from the article. ... I wonder which of the Khajuraho mysteries Baskaran is talking about. Is it about the presence of erotic...
In Kerala there are incidents of Buddhist temples which got converted to Hindu Temples. I was reading the book "History of Syrian Christians of Kerala", which...
Dear JK(?), It is quite true that the very popular Sabarimalai Temple of Ayyappan was indeed a Buddhist shrine of the past. The legends of the origin of the...
Srijata Saha Sahoo Information Assistant, PIB, Kolkata Kolkata has added another glory to its cultural heritage. Just before the `Puja', the renovated...
http://www.ibiblio.org/gautam/heri0008.htm ROCK ART HERITAGE OF INDIA (Unpublished) by Dr. Gautam Chatterjee View Photo India Whose hands fashioned these...
Ram, I have few questions (1) When was the Sabarimala Buddhist temple converted to a Hindu Temple ? What time frame was this ? (2) Did Buddhist Monks who built...
Call to stop politicising Sri Lankan history COLOMBO DIARY | PK Balachanddran Colombo, October 11 http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1051304,00410008.htm A...
... I am rather confused. If you have an image of a god, he has got to be either sitting, standing or supine. What's 'typical Buddhist' about this? Is there...
The homepage of Dr Kak has been revised thoroughly. All his writings on India/Hindu Dharma are either available online now, or their publication related...
JK, All good questions! As you know, in India, myth and mythology, history and legend all blend together. It is a pity that there were hardly any true...
It seems that Ayyappa worship represents a synthesis of local hero worship, Vaishnava, Shaiva and Buddhist and perhaps other traditions. An account is given at...
... The extensive dalistan.org website, created by an unknown organization, is an anti-India and anti-Brahmin website. The articles there combine facts,...
This is the story about Ayyapan I heard while growing up in Kerala. Ayyappan, was found by a childless king & queen on the bank of a river. They brought him...
... In your earlier mail, you had said many of the Vishnu temples in Kerala were originally Buddhist. I am happy to notice that now you seem to be confining...
Dear All The identification of icons based on artistic and stylistic attributes is the subject of art historians. Maybe, some art historians should opine on...
... Dear Balasubrahmanyam, muniyANTi is recognized as a formal Tamil designation for Buddha by many scholars. At any rate, muni also means Buddha in Tamil....
Is there any particular reason you consider ancient Vishnu temples in Kerala Like tiruvananthapuram, Aranmula, tiruvalla or tirunavay to be Buddhist in origin?...
