TOVP Announces: Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies Online Summer School
Mon, July 01, 2024
by Sunanda Das
We are happy to announce the inaugural Bhaktivedanta Institute Summer School (online-only). Everyone is encouraged to register for free (registration deadline: 10th July)! Please register and advertise this within your circles. Program: Four amazing sessions of online presentations of the latest research and projects of the BI covering: Mind & Consciousness, the Philosophy of Science,
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Bhaktivedanta Research Center Sets Up Largest Acharya Exhibit in History in the TOVP
Tue, February 27, 2024
by Sunanda Das
On February 29, 2024, during the most auspicious observance of the 150th Appearance Anniversary of ISKCON Param Guru His Divine Grace Ashottara Sata Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Prabhupada, the Kolkata-based Bhaktivedanta Research Center (BRC), in association with the Saraswata Gaudiya Vashnava Association, will be opening the doors to the largest exhibit in history of any
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The TOVP, Bhaktivedanta Institute and Intelligent Design
Sun, November 26, 2023
by Sunanda Das
One of Srila Prabhupada’s most important steps in developing ISKCON was the creation of the Bhaktivedanta Institute, the scientific arm of his preaching strategy, which would present Vedic wisdom in the light of modern science, and defeat the prominence of mechanistic and atheistic concepts. At around the same time, the Intelligent Design movement, comprised of
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Temple of the Vedic Planetarium Website Vedic Science Information Page
Sat, November 25, 2023
by Sunanda Das
“Godhead is Light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience.” These words were immortally etched on Srila Prabhupada’s original Back to Godhead magazines in the mid-1940s, and remain there today. They are forever true, and the Hare Krishna movement was founded with this underlying principle in mind. The Temple of the
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Puranic Time and the Archeological Record
Tue, February 28, 2023
by Michael A. Cremo (Drutakarma Das)
By Michael A. Cremo (Drutakarma Dasa): The Forbidden Archeologist This paper was delivered at the Third World Archaeological Congress, New Delhi, India, 4 -11 December 1994. Providing a strong challenge to established academic perception and methodology, Drutakarma Dasa presents the Vaisnava Hindu worldview on the fundamental concepts to the approach to and interpretation of the
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Puranic and Siddhantic Cosmology Conference, Govardhan Ecovillage, November 4-6, 2022
Mon, October 24, 2022
by Brahmatirtha Das
ISKCON, Chowpatty, in academic collaboration with the Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies in Gainesville, Florida (BIHS) and the Bhaktivedanta Research Center in Mumbai (BRC), will be hosting an international hybrid cosmology conference at the Govardhan EcoVillage (GEV) just north of Mumbai, November 4–6, 2022, titled “Puranic and Siddhantic Cosmology: Within an Experiential Mathematical Framework.” For
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Temple of the Vedic Planetarium Outreach Program
Fri, November 26, 2021
by Sunanda Das
“Godhead is Light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience.” These words were immortally etched on Srila Prabhupada’s original Back to Godhead magazines in the mid-1940s, and remain there today. They are forever true, and the Hare Krishna movement was founded with this underlying principle in mind. The Temple of the
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Vedic Science Essay: A Three-Body Interaction Among Science, Hinduism, and Christianity
Fri, October 29, 2021
by Michael A. Cremo (Drutakarma Das)
By Michael A. Cremo (Drutakarma Das): The Forbidden Archeologist I presented this paper at The Sanskrit Tradition in the Modern World conference at the University of Newcastle, England, on May 19, 2000. The interactions among science, Hinduism, and Christianity are as complex as those in the three-body problem of astrophysics. In practice, astrophysicists select a
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TOVP Vedic Science Essays: Did We Land on the Moon?
Thu, August 26, 2021
by Ashish Dalela (Rsiraja Das)
Did We Land on the Moon? By Ashish Dalela (Rsiraja Das) According to a Gallup poll, about 6% of Americans believe that man never went to the moon; they endorse conspiracy theories in which these landings were supposedly staged in a studio. This post is not about such conspiracy theories. I will discuss why we
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