Guest guest Posted July 9, 2002 Report Share Posted July 9, 2002 Guruevents, jiva jivazz <purushaz> wrote: Note: forwarded message attached. Sign up for SBC Dial - First Month Free http://sbc. HINDU PRESS INTERNATIONAL A daily news summary for breaking news sent via e-mail and posted on the web for media, educators, researchers, writers, religious leaders worldwide and Hinduism Today magazine rs, courtesy of Hinduism Today editorial staff Visit our archives at http://www.HinduismToday.com/hpi/ View sample pages of our beautiful print edition at http://www.HinduismToday.com/sample_pages/ July 8, 2002 HPI will next be issued July 11 Today's Stories: 1. Pune's Women Priests in Demand 2. Women Priests from Jnana Prabodhini Take a Different Approach 3. Three Thousand Attend Opening of Hindu Temple in Germany 4. Medicinal Use of Cow Urine Receives US patent 5. Should We All Be Vegetarians? 6. Japanese DVD "RG Veda" Not About Our Rig Veda 1. Pune's Women Priests in Demand Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com//articleshow.asp? art_id=15204870 PUNE, INDIA, July 7, 2002: As the demand for priests to perform certain rituals has increased, the supply of male priests has dwindled. Often young men do not follow in their father's footsteps and have taken up what they feel to be more lucrative careers. Hence in 1990, an organization call Jnana Prabodhini started training both women and men in the priestly arts. Over 800 people to date have completed the training. After completing a three-month priesthood training class, graduates from JP can perform rituals such as weddings, various pujas, and the rites of passage after death. Another organization called Shankar Seva Samiti has been training women to become priests since 1976. After one year of traditional training, SSS priestesses now numbering 7,000, serve all castes and are from all castes themselves. The two organizations have taken a different approach to their training, SSS a traditional one and JP a modern participatory one. Regardless of their training, women priests are very much in demand. As one patron put it, "They do not take short cuts while performing rituals, explain the meaning and always have time." See also next story. 2. Women Priests from Jnana Prabodhini Take a Different Approach Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com//articleshow.asp? art_id=15203306 PUNE, INDIA, July 7, 2002: Jnana Prabodhini, a Pune-based organization, has been training women to become priests since 1990. With very little opposition from the public, JP has found that women priests have filled a demand, that priests graduating from their program perform rituals for all classes of people, and that women should have an equal opportunity in the profession. Yashwant Lele, who works for JP, says, "We have modified the rituals to suit the jet age where people have the inclination to perform rituals, but have less time and limited money." Lele points out that the modifications were done after consulting the Lonavla-based Dharmanirnay Mandal. JP priests also perform the last rites and have revived the sacred thread ceremony for girls, to emphasize their importance 3. Three Thousand Attend Opening of Hindu Temple in Germany Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com//articleshow.asp? art_id=15297236 HAMM, GERMANY, July 8, 2002: Around 3,000 Hindus on Sunday attended the inauguration of the largest Hindu temple in Europe, at Hamm in northwest Germany, police said. The 700-square-meter Sri Kamadchi Ampal temple took two years to build and cost US$990,000, most of it from donations. The building is built in an architectural style typical of southern India and includes 180 icons and altars, the architect Heinz-Reiner Eihorst said. The inauguration was marked by a party that was expected to continue late into the night. The Hindu priest Siva Sri Paskarakurukkal, who will officiate at the temple, expects around 300 devotees per day to worship there. 4. Medicinal Use of Cow Urine Receives US patent Source: http://headlines.sify.com/1008news5.html NEW DELHI, INDIA, India, July 3, 2002: Joint research conducted by the Scientists of Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, a Central Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) laboratory, and Go-Vigyan Anusandhan Kendra, Nagpur, has resulted in the granting of a US patent for a unique pharmaceutical composition, announced Union Minister Murli Manohar Joshi. The research discovered the unique bio-enhancing activity in a specific cow urine distillate, which enhances the anti-microbial effects of antibiotic and anti-fungal agents. Cow urine has been used for its medicinal properties in India since ancient times and has been described as a substance/secretion with innumerable therapeutic values in ''Sushrita Samhita'' and ''Ashtanga Sangrah.'' This contemporary finding is the synergy of Indian traditional wisdom and modern science. The impact of this novel patent will be on reducing the dosage of drugs to get a given therapeutic effect. It will also reduce the cost of treatment and the side- effects due to toxicity, according to the details of the research paper. Joshi also believed the achievement would give impetus to the traditional researchers of the country. Details of the cow urine patent, entitled Pharmaceutical composition containing cow urine distillate and an antibiotic, #6,410,059, are available at the US Patent Office website: www.patft.uspto.gov/ 5. Should We All Be Vegetarians? Source: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,300595,00.html NEW YORK, NEW YORK, July 15, 2002: Sporting the ubiquitous hamburger bun overflowing with vegetables, the July 15 issue of Time magazine carries a cover story on the merits of vegetarianism for everyone. For many, meat is an obscene cuisine. It's not just the additives and ailments connected with the consumption of beef, though a dish of hormones, E. coli bacteria or the scary specter of mad-cow disease might be effective enough as an appetite suppressant. It's that more and more Americans, particularly young Americans, have started engaging in a practice that would once have shocked their parents. They are eating their vegetables. Also their grains and sprouts. Some 10 million Americans today consider themselves to be practicing vegetarians, according to a Time poll of 10,000 adults; an additional 20 million have flirted with vegetarianism sometime in their past. Discussing a number of nutritional issues like calcium absorption and vitamin B12 to the ethical argument that vegetarianism is a much more environment-friendly diet than those revolving around meat, this lengthy article provides much food for thought. 6. Japanese DVD "RG Veda" Not About Our Rig Veda Source: http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/8584/rgveda.html TRINIDAD, July 8, 2002: HPI's local contacts here sent in a note that a Japanese-language DVD had appeared entitled "RG Veda." Our correspondent, Anil Mahabir, spoke with a distributor of the DVD who said, "The film is not about anything even remotely resembling Indian culture or Hinduism, although the name "RG Veda" might seem to suggest such." Intrigued, HPI tracked down a website on this DVD ("source" above). There we learned, "RG Veda was created by a group of female Japanese artists and writers who go by the name of CLAMP. RG Veda was one of their first creations, and they are also responsible for X (called X/1999 in the U.S.), Tokyo Babylon, Clover and a few others." The illustrations, apparently made some time ago, are in Japanese "anime," a stylized cartoon, and the plotline summarized on the website does indeed seem to have nothing to do with the Rig Veda. Concerned that Hindus might take offense at the cartoon, the Trinidad distributor, Hafeez Amin of Genesis Foundation (genesis@w...) has decided not to feature the DVD as part of their Japanese cartoon festival. He did ask our correspondent, "Should you do the necessary research and deem this movie able to be shown to general audiences in Trinidad & Tobago please do not hesitate to contact us." HPI readers who want to look into the cartoon are welcome to send Hafeez their comments. ----------- Some source URLs cited in HPI articles are only valid on the date the article was issued. 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