Since the year 2000, he has sponsored and directed a team of six scholars in theYoga Siddha Research Project in Tamil Nadu, whose objectives include the preservation, transcription, translation, writing of commentaries and publication of the literary works of the 18 Tamil Yoga Siddhas, fro...
IFC Executive Vice President Philippe Le Houérou recently acknowledged the need for the World Bank Group member to re-examine its work with financial institutions. In ablogpost from April 10, Le Houérou wrote that the IFC would make “some important additional...
Scientists are aware of more than 7,100 languages in use today. Nearly 40 percent of them are considered endangered, meaning they have a declining number of speakers and are at risk of dying out. Some languages are spoken by fewer than 1,000 ...
At the same time , he was cautious and conceded that it was too early for the Indian common men to understand the meaning and value of participatory democracy propagated by him because they were ’seeped in the feudal tradition of monarchic hierarchy as well as in the customs of a religious...
This name of S´ iva is attested nowhere other than the Tul.u region (and possibly its environs),108 where it is understood to mean "the gentle Lord", mañju meaning "gentle" in Sanskrit. It is of course also redolent of Mañjus´r¯ı (or Mañjuvajra, the form in which...