By Hanumatpresaka Swami
Prof. H. H. Robinson (Hanumatpresaka Swami), lamenting that there was not an academic institution in ISKCON that related to such areas as cultural anthropology, as the Bhaktivedanta Institute related to physical sciences, combined with Dr. Ravi P. Singh and other distinguished academics to form NIOS. Since then it has published three major academic volumes, many distinguished videos and organized many equally potent symposia, seminar and colloquia.
Specifically, in collaboration with the prestigious Indian National Museum, Kolkata, in May 2012, a three day seminar on The Contribution of Ancient India Toward Making a Better World was organized. The event was inaugurated by former Justice of the Supreme Court of India, the Honorable Mukundakam Sharma, and two former Governors of West Bengal, and was pressed with attendance for specific topics on Medicine, Education, and Philosophy that followed for the next two days.
Every year there have been events in Peru with San Marcos University (along with the University of Mexico the oldest university in the Western Hemisphere), the Peruvian National Library and others on Art and the Sacred, Psychology and the Sacred, interfaith dialogues, and three years of Bharatiya Sanskriti, Classical Indian Culture involving art, music, philosophy, history, science.
With Ramanan Nagarajan and Goloka Education, NIOS is now developing curriculum and institutions for Sanskrit Centric Education and continuing work in such areas as Carl Jung and the Bhagavata, Two Princes: Hamlet and Arjuna and locally promoting gorgeous cultural events such as Viva Kultura in Nashville.
Its flagship journal is Solaris which will be released in its third edition October 2018. Please visit our website and give it the help it obviously needs for this exciting and penetrating work.
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