Jnanadoota Vision and Future Plans

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Dear KrishNa bhaktas,

Here is the announcement about the Jnanadoota

program's vision and future plans, that was sent in

PDF format earlier this week. Some of you could not

read the PDF files, so this is being sent as a text

format again.

 

I want to remark the volunteers at Mahabharatha

Samshodhana PrathisTana have a very far reaching and

noble vision to use the Internet technologies in the

service of study of scriptures and Vedanta. We should

be proud that mAdhva volunteers and community is

spearheading this effort. Please send you comments

and ideas to the list.

 

In the service of Sri Hari and Vayu,

Vasu Murthy

 

 

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Mahabharata Samshodhana Pratisthanam (MSP) is a

registered non-profitable organisation based in

Bangalore, INDIA. Its objects are

a. Research and dissemination of philosophical

knowledge and traditions primarily on the Mahabharata

and other related areas

b. To distribute the traditional wealth of

knowledge

to the common man and to bring in the modern methods

of Information Interchange to the scholars of

traditional fields.

c. Conducting seminars and workshops at the

national

level on the Mahabharata and other related fields with

reference to this great epic.

 

This was started by s/w engineers motivated to learn

and disseminate the spiritual content embedded in the

ocean of knowledge called Mahabharata a.k.a

Panchamaveda. In order to do this, a small association

was launched and later registered in 1997 in Bangalore

as a not-for-profit organisation. Initially, MSP took

up the project of collecting the rare books and

manuscripts related to the Mahabharata and in this

process it found the state of these literary works to

be pathetic and on the verge of death. In order to

electronically restore this and enhance the visibility

of the manuscript contents, it conceived a project in

1998. Recently, MSP has brought out “VYASA” an

eRestoration tool for manuscripts and palmleaves. This

was greatly appreciated by the Oriental Research

Institute, Mysore.(estd 1891). ORI will be signing an

MoU for digital restoration of their huge library of

manuscripts (more than 70,000 rare manuscripts) with

MSP in April 2001.

In late 1999, MSP conceived another project, which is

aimed to become the world largest resource for the

Indian traditional philosophical sciences. This is a

congregation of more than 50 Internet sites to

promulgate the interest in Indian philosophical

thoughts worldwide. In this connection, it has

recently started the educational activities on

Mahabharata and other related fields such as Vedanta

philosophy (to start with Dvaita), Sanskrit education

online under the Virtual organisation called

“JnanaDoota”. JnanaDoota is an International eLearning

center on Indology. Vishwa Madhva Sangha (VMS) has

taken a very active role in supporting the cause of

dissemination of knowledge though Webcasting. We feel

that Webcasting is a very effective way of training

for the global audience. Prof. D.Prahladacharya is the

Chairman of the Executive committee of MSP.

 

 

Vision and Short-term goals

 

· To create a World class knowledge centre for

effective dissemination of different branches of

Indian philosophy with key reference to Mahabharata.

This will be done under www.jnanadoota.org

· To create World’s largest online digital

library of

Indian manuscripts deposited in Oriental Research

Institute, Mysore.

· To spread the Sanskrit language effectively

with the

Internet as the interactive medium and through

production of Sanskrit educational kits. Diploma in

Sanskrit will be awarded at end of course.

· To educate enthusiasts on Vedanta philosophy

with

reference to Itihasa and Gita prasthana in particular.

To start with, we plan to bring out Diploma in Dvaita

Vedanta.

· Create and distribute educational multimedia

CDs and

DVDs.

 

 

JnanaDoota Programmes

 

Preamble

JnanaDoota – International eLearning Centre on

Indology is the innovation of MSP with collective

co-operation of ORI and VMS. This was inaugurated by

Sri Sri Sushameendra thirtha swamiji, pontiff, Sri

Raghavendra Swamiji Matha, Mantralayam on 4th March

2001 in Bangalore. Currently the Web site has very

limited functions and contents. It is going to grow in

a big way by end of 2001.

Webcasting of Philosophical lectures are currently

designed for Maadhva community worldwide and also some

lectures on BhagavadGita and Mahabharata are of

general Interest to all the Kannada speaking community

worldwide.

Most of the programmes are designed to be FREE OF COST

currently. We are making a calculated investment on

these programmes, which are very useful for the

spiritual seekers to improve the quality of their

lives.

JnanaDoota a month-old virtual institution has a very

great honour of being identified by University of

Mysore. It will be on the road map of University of

Mysore to recognize MSP(JnanaDoota) as a nodal centre

for propagating “Sanskrit” (Diploma in Sanskrit)

under the guidelines of University Grants Commission

(UGC) in Bangalore and Worldwide via JnanaDoota.

 

Programmes in making

 

1. Diploma in Sanskrit *

1 year course designed under the UGC Guidelines by

MSP.

Phase I – 25 days

Phase II – 4 months

Phase III – 7 months

Start of course from May/June 2001. Medium - English

 

2. Diploma in Vedanta (Dvaita)

1 year course. Details will be given later.

Course to start by July/Aug 2001 Medium - Kannada

This course will be designed based on the response for

both the courses.

 

At the end of course if the University recognition

process is completed, University of Mysore will give

the certificate. This may enable the aspirants to

continue with Graduate courses in Sanskrit, philosophy

etc., Please note that the Diploma in Sanskrit for

Phase I will be made available FREE OF COST. And other

investments will be looked into once we find

considerable response.

 

 

Method of learning

 

· JnanaDoota will provide the Kit of Learning,

which

contains the text, lectures in form of CDs or

cassettes on charge/free of charge if possible.

· It is also planned to have Internet webcasts

called

JnanaVani, which is FREE.

· Monthly scheduled regular interaction facility

with

the mentors will be made available via net2phone or a

Bridge call or /MSN messenger depending upon the

responses. This will enable the students to have

necessary interactive learning in one-to-one mode.

· Unscheduled interaction can also take place if

there

is prior request with the JnanaDoota administration.

· The pace of learning is left as a choice to

the

participants. But it is recommended that they follow

the standard schedule for easy facilitation.

· The evaluation will be done via assignments

and

interaction.

· On successful completion of the course,

Diploma

certificate will be conferred by University of

Mysore.(subjected to recognition of MSP by University

of Mysore)

 

 

 

JnanaVani

 

JnanaVani – World’s First Philosophical Webcasting

station is an effective medium used by JnanaDoota to

deliver multimedia content of lectures and lessons

from the scholars par-excellence to form the global

classroom.

We will start the webcasts from 15th April 2001 on

three series

a. Discourses on Dvaita Vedanta by Prof.

K.T.Pandurangi in English

b. Discourses on Mandukopanishat by Sri Bannanje

Govindacharya in Kannada

c. Discourses on BhagavadGita by Dr.

Prabhanjanacharya

in Kannada

 

Lessons on Mahabharata Tatparya Nirnaya and SuMadhva

Vijaya will be restarted based on the feedback from

the registrants.

 

All the lectures are processed in Studio before

Webcasting. We plan to distribute them in form of CDs

and Cassettes (subject to approval from copyright

holders)

 

You can listen to the discourses from the famous

scholars in India through this FREE OF COST service of

JnanaDoota.

 

Important Notice:

 

Interested people who have already registered with

JnanaDoota can watch out for an announcement in a day

or two from JnanaDoota on the programmes and are

requested to respond appropriately.

 

 

If you wish to support this cause please write to us

to msp with the subject “MSP-

Support”, we will send details on how you can support

this cause.

 

Thanking you and wishing you a very happy learning

with us,

 

Administrator,

On behalf of

Vidwan Sri A.V.Nagasampige M.A., (PhD),,

JnanaDoota – eLearning Centre.

Bangalore.

 

 

 

 

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Vasu Murthy

Email:vmurthy

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