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The Maha Vallabha Ganapathi Devastanam, owned by the Hindu Temple Society of North America in Flushing, New York, was consecrated on July 4, 1977. [63] There are over 1450 Hindu temples across the United States, [64] with a majority on the East Coast. The New York region has more than 1135 temples; [65] Texas has 128 [66] and Massachusetts has ...
During the British colonial period, the British substantially influenced Indian society, but India also influenced the western world. An early champion of Indian-inspired thought in the West was Arthur Schopenhauer who in the 1850s advocated ethics based on an "Aryan-Vedic theme of spiritual self-conquest", as opposed to the ignorant drive toward earthly utopianism of the superficially this ...
Morrisville’s participation was supported by the Hindu Society of North Carolina and HVM Hindi Pathshala, a nonprofit that teaches children Hindi. The town got a $25,000 grant through the ...
The magazine presents through a Hindu perspective a wide range of topics, pressing both to society and the individual. These topics include, but are not limited to, the following: education, culture, cosmology, philosophy, ethics, sociology, film, music, spirituality, food, and travel.
During his first visit to the US, Vivekananda established the Vedanta Society in 1894. His urge to live as a sanyasi (renunciation of worldly pleasures) made him convert two of his disciples as sanyasis, Madame Marie Louise and Herr Leon Handsberg, and changed their names as Swami Abhayananda and Swami Kripananda respectively so that they could continue the work of the mission of the Vedantha ...
The Vedanta Society built its first temple, called the Old Temple, in North America in San Francisco in 1905. [Note 1] [1] [2] [3] This temple has evolved into a bona fide Hindu temple. [Note 1] Through the 1930s and 1940s, Vedanta Societies were also established in Boston, Los Angeles, Portland, Providence, Chicago, St. Louis, and Seattle.
American Hindus (3 C, 188 P) H. ... Hindu Temple of Toledo; Hinduism Today; I. ... International Society for Krishna Consciousness; Talk:International Society for ...
This is a list of Hindu members of the United States Congress. As of 2025 [update] , five practicing Hindus have been elected to Congress, the first being Tulsi Gabbard in 2013. As of the 119th Congress , four practicing Hindus currently serve in the United States House of Representatives .