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Flipboard Culture Desk

Today, Hindus around the world celebrate Holi, the festival of colors, and nowhere is it more raucous than in India. Kids and grownups filled their water balloons and water guns yesterday, and have packets of colored powder ready to ambush friends, neighbors and strangers. "If you're spotlessly clean, you're a target," write Mithil Aggarwal and Max Butterworth for NBC. Here's their story about the meaning of the festival and how it is celebrated — complete with some absolutely stunning photography.

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NBC News · Water Balloons and Bollywood, India covers itself with color on Holi festivalBy Mithil Aggarwal
#India#Holi#Hinduism
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Dag-Rune Z
The sunset warm temple by the icy blue pond

This temple complex in the north of Cambodia, on the border mountain range to the large northeast Isaan-region of Thailand, lays the levelled temple complex of Preah Vihear.

The name "Preah Vihear" comes from the Khmer words "Preah" (sacred) and "Vihear" (abode or shrine). The temple is also sometimes referred to as "Phnom Preah Vihear" (mountain of Preah Vihear).

The large temple complex was built during a century one thousand years ago. It has been a Cambodian World Cultural Heritage site for nearly twenty years.

As a tourist attraction, the temple is a popular travelling target with all the usual and some unique reasons. The location and the view and outlook of the surrounding areas are special. The combination of several Angkor art and architectural styles into one complex is very interesting.

It is a mountain temple, but the access is easy going after you have paid someone with 4x4 to drive you up. Not wheel chair accessible, but seniors and other who are able to walk can visit easily.

#ប្រាសាទព្រះវិហារ #Preah #Vihear #Temple #preahvihear #Cambodia #Kampuchea #templevisit #buddhism #hinduism #angkor #art #architecture #bluesky #isaan #sisaket #2019ce #water #well #worldculturalheritage #roadtrip #2019 #colorful #colourful #culturalheritage #cambodia
Photo shows an old temple building build in red stone being warm and yellow-red in the afternoon setting sun. It contrasts nicely with the icy blue pond in the foreground, and the lightly clouded blue sky. The classic Khmer temple is set on a foundation of stone, surrounded by turf-covered ground.
#បរាសាទពរះវិហារ
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tmac3art
To continue with my pink period pieces, I have a painting that I did that was inspired from playing God of War. The themes of grappling with your demons and legacy that was presented in that game really resonated with me, as a man who was about to be a father who wanted to shed the generational trauma that I think we all experienced in one way or another. I wanted to explore the idea that Kratos would be thrown into another pantheon and what would that be and what would be do to evolve as a character. I chose the Hindu pantheon, and instead of him battling Ganesh or something like that (which was my original plan,) I decided to go a more peaceful and mindful route. Here is a man who wants to heal from his past, so I presented him as a meditating man trying to find peace. I thought it would be a recognizable character doing something that I hadn't seen him do yet: meditate before his conflicts. I kept with the oil paint brushes in Infinite painter and threw down some vibrant color, but kept it simple. I knew I wouldn't get away with selling an image like this, so really, it was for fun that I attempted this piece. Not something that I would see hanging on a wall, but maybe I could make posters of it or something. Another dream I have for my art is that I could make a piece and then sell it at an art show. I'd probably get in trouble for selling something like this though. It didn't get the response I was hoping for when posting it on my other accounts, but I was overall happy with how it turned out because it showed that I could paint a fairly realistic looking person.

#godofwar #meditation #digitalart #pixelfedart #painting #oilpainting #digitalart #infinitepainter #hinduism #peace #warrior #colorfulart
#colorfulart
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Estelle Platini

“In her magisterial book The Great Partition, Yasmin Khan offers a sobering conclusion: The Partition of 1947 is also a loud reminder, should we care to listen, of the dangers of colonial interventions and the profound difficulties that dog regime change. It stands testament to the follies of empire, which ruptures community evolution, distorts historical trajectories and forces violent state formation from societies that would otherwise have taken different—and unknowable—paths. Partition is a lasting lesson of both the dangers of imperial hubris and the reactions of extreme nationalism. For better or worse, two nations continue to live alongside each other in South Asia and continue to live with these legacies.”
―Caroline Elkins, "Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire"

#liberalism#raceMaking#hinduism
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Flipboard

Technology has transformed every facet of life — so why not religion?@restofworld created a Flipboard Storyboard of their brilliant Digital Divinity series, which includes Hindu temples made by 3D printers, priests that dance on TikTok and more.
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Flipboard · Digital Divinity: Ancient traditions meet modern technologyBy Rest of World
#Religion#Culture#Lifestyle
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Flipboard Culture Desk

Technology has transformed every facet of life, including religion. @restofworld has created this "illustrated storybook" that looks into how the way people worship is changing, from the Hajj VR simulator that helps Muslims prepare for the holy pilgrimage to an AI chatbot that gives Bible advice.

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Rest of WorldDigital DivinityAncient traditions meet modern technology.
#Religion#Culture#Lifestyle
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Journeys In Film

We're boosting this Call for Proposals for our friends at Religion Matters - religionmatters.org/. They do good work supporting educators who are teaching about world religions — and their editor is a joy to work with.

. . .

Call for Proposals

The Religion Matters Blog offers a venue for religious studies educators and scholars to share their views on why religion matters today:

- K-16 Perspectives on religious literacy in the classroom.
- Lesson Plans for K-12 Educators.
- Syllabuses for Higher Education.
- Religion in the Public Sphere.

If you are interested in submitting to the Religions Matter Blog, complete the submission form: docs.google.com/forms/d/1PWAWS.

#Education #Edutooters #ReligiousStudies #ReligiousLiteracy #GlobalEducation #Buddhism #Christianity #Hinduism #Islam #Judaism #WorldReligions @education @edutooters @religion @religiousstudies @academicchatter

Call for Proposals. The Religion Matters Blog offers a venue for religious studies educators and scholars to share their views on why religion matters today. The Editorial Team accepts submissions on a rolling basis. Submissions are evaluated by the Editorial Team for content, intellectual rigor, and writing style. We are especially interested in the following kinds of submissions: - K-16 Perspectives on religious literacy in the classroom. - Lesson Plans for K-12 Educators. - Syllabuses for Higher Education. - Religion in the Public Sphere. If you are interested in submitting to the Religions Matter Blog, complete the submission form at bit.ly/RMBlogCall.
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Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

Have you heard of #HinduAtheism?

Feryl Badiani shared quotes from interviews in her talk, #Atheism in Hindus.

Some themes:
- "#Caste played a unique role in mitigating theism"
- There may have also been an "intersection between #education and caste"

You can follow Feryl on ResearchGate: researchgate.net/profile/Feryl

This @wikipedia article was also educational (for me): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_at

The presenter
Some quotes related to caste and "mitigating theism"
More quotes mentioning caste, education, and religion/God/faith
#hinduism#religion#ethnography
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Steve McCarty 🇯🇵

Sumadera (須磨寺) is a unique #temple full of iconographic #arts, at the western end of Kōbe (神戸). Perhaps because it's not in Kyōto or Nara, there is little information available online about Sumadera, even in #Japanese. It was founded in 886 and has its own branch of Kūkai's #Shingon #Buddhism: Sumadera-ha (真言宗須磨寺派). It is internationally active, and a place for #religious practices rather than an outdoor museum. By the same token, it's free to enter.
Suma appears in ancient waka poetry (和歌) of 5-7-5-7-7 syllables, and is associated with the Heike Monogatari (平家物語). I was determined to go, despite the rain, because I'd read an article clarifying wabi and sabi with a #waka coincidentally about Suma. The first photos show Sumadera's exchanges with #Nepal resulting in a display of Tibetan #Buddhist and #Hindu #iconography. Although there was light rain on the beach at first, later up at Sumadera the day turned bright.

#Japan #travel #religion #Hinduism #mythology
@religion @mythology

Tibetan Buddhist style altar at Sumadera
Hindu figure Saraswati
Buddhist pagoda and Shintō shrine
Active Buddhist priests
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Ji Fu

If you need to utilize force to promote your religion, maybe there is something wrong with your religion. Westerners have a perspective that Hinduism is a #religion of #peace. Ghandi was peaceful, that doesn't mean #hinduism is peaceful.

♻ @feed@www.mattersindica.com Hindu flags planted atop churches in Madhya Pradesh – Matters India

mattersindia.com/2024/01/hindu

Matters India · Hindu flags planted atop churches in Madhya PradeshBy Matters India Reporter Jhabua, Jan 22, 2023: Christians in central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh have protested right wing Hindu activists planting saffron flags atop four Protestant churches, …
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