Fwd: [t'vengadam] Pontiff reaches overseas devotees through IT

[Guest guest]

SrI:

 

Dear BhakthAs:

 

The attached note from SrIman Sudarshanan

is self-explanatory and might be of interest to you .

 

The establishment of similar focal center

(Computer-aided service Cemter )for links to

SrI VaishNavite AchAryAs and Scholars would be

most desirable for all of us overseas to have

ready and continous access to our AchAryAs .

Currently , we have special web pages, e-lists ,

CD ROMs and Monographs and Telebridges . Face to face

video conferencing backed up by satellite communication

would be a natural next step. I can not think of

a better institution with wherewith all and expertise

to reach out in this area.

 

The MadhurAnthakam Schools just established

a computer Center and has ambitous plans to use that center

for developing instruction and to create perhaps a network

that would link SrI VaishNavites in India and abroad.

Dr.P.N.Sridharan , The Honorary Secretary of

MadhurAnthakam Schools , is working hard to

expand the thrust of traditional scholarship

resident at MadhurAnthakam schools for uptodate

training for the students with IT and at the same time

strategizing to develop outreach solutions to serve

the larger VaishNavite Community in India as well as

overseas.

 

The educational outreach thru new media , Internet

based technologies would be of great help to protect

and preserve VedAntha darsanams in general and

SrI Bhagavad RaamAnuja SiddhAntham in particular.

The MadhurAnthakam Schools has the faculty expertise

and commitment in this area of educational advancement

and training of future scholars.

 

It is most heartening to know that a partenrship

agreement has been reached now by the Executives of

MadhurAnthakam School with BITS Pilani Institure

for future cooperation. This happened during

the recent visit of HH SrImad Azhagiya Singar

to Pilani .

 

There are many members of these lists , who have

expertise in Internet Based Communication Technologies to

help in creating a center at MadhurAnthakam as

it moves forward.

 

Please suggest the ways in which you wish to

help financially and Shrama dhAnam in the creation

of the visionary outreach area. It will take some time.

As they say , a journey of 1000 miles starts with

a single step. Fortunately for us , the MadhurAnthakam

has traveleld quite some distance on this journey already.

 

NamO NaarAyaNAYa ,

Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan

 

 

 

>sudarshan,DShankar

> " P. Jayalakshmi " <PJaya

Pontiff reaches overseas devotees through

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>Monday November 25, 9:47 AM

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>By Papri Sri Raman, Indo-Asian News Service

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>Chennai, Nov 25 (IANS) There could perhaps be no better example of how

>religion can adopt technology than the story of a Hindu pilgrimage centre

>in Tamil Nadu.

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>The Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham is one of the first major religious

>institutions in India to introduce computer-aided services for thousands

>of its followers around the world.

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>The centre, established by the first Shankaracharya about 2,000 years ago

>about 80 km south of Chennai in Kancheepuram town, went online about five

>years ago.

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>Today, its Web site, www.kamakoti.org, has 5,000 web pages -- 2,000 of

>them in Tamil. A Telugu service is to be launched shortly.

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>The site is maintained by the centre's own computer division; all

>accounting and financial records are maintained on computers.

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>And it is not just computers, but the entire gamut of electronic

>technology that is bringing a revolution in the dissemination of religion

>at Kanchi.

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>Most gizmos were presented to the centre by expatriate Indians and

>industrialist devotees who were only too glad to be able to give servers,

>special screens and printers, telephones, fax machines, anything that

>would help the place modernise, instead of the traditional gifts of fruits

>and jewellery.

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>There are closed circuit TVs in the centre that telecast in-house

>programmes to various departments, schools and other institutions of

>learning run by it.

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>Especially popular are talks by Kanchi pontiff Jayendra Saraswathi and

>dignitaries who visit him throughout the year. The best part is that the

>pontiff can now interact with his devotees through a video conferencing

>facility.

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>A week ago, the pontiff talked to 5,000 Hindus at a gathering in a

>badminton stadium in Kuala Lumpur across the oceans.

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>Hindu seers are reportedly not permitted to cross the seas but online

>there is no such limit and the CEO of the Kanchi centre loves to bless his

>overseas followers whenever there is an occasion.

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> " This is not the first such videoconference he has had with his devotees, "

>says Vasanth Mehta, who heads the communications division of the centre.

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>A graduate from BITS, Pilani, Mehta says very often Saraswathi has

>religious discussions with his followers in the U.S.

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>But the conference with Malaysian Hindus on November 17 was the biggest

>event of its kind.

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>The pontiff spoke to his Malaysian followers from a facility at Sastra, a

>university in the temple town of Thanjavur.

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>As many as 37 Hindu groups including the Malaysia Hindu Sangam, Malaysia

>Hindu Dharma Mamandram, Malaysia Siva Sidhantha Mandram and International

>Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) participated.

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>The Shankaracharya discussed how to propagate Hindu religion, especially

>to the younger, technology savvy members of the community.

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>Subjects as complex as the " Relevance of Hinduism in Modern Society " and

> " Challenges of Hinduism from Within and Without " were debated at the

>daylong event.

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>One programme on the agenda of Hindus in Malaysia and in Kanchi was

> " modernising Hindu print and electronic media " to reinforce the faith.

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>More electronically printed books in Tamil, English, Malaysian and other

>languages using modern desktop technology are on the cards.

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>So is the production of audio-visual religious aids, CD-ROMs, VCDs, DVDs,

>CDs and more Web sites about Hinduism -- a long-term programme to be

>guided by the citadel of tech-savvy Hinduism, the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham.

 

 

 

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