Sunday, March 29, 2026

Resources for discussing and teaching hinduism to GenX, Millennials, Gen Z and Gen Alpha...

 

 

Content pages of some textbooks as a starter for curriculum design (note these two docs are PDFs

 that will be downloaded upon clicking; the PDFs contain Table of Contents of two text books):  

 curriculum_model1 and 

curriculum_model2

(complete books are available below) 

 Some text book / resource materials from Hawaii temple and others

Hindu Dharma by Kanchi Mahaa Periyavaal

 Understanding-Hinduism-DC-Rao

 Mysore.Hiriyanna-The.Essentials.of.Indian.Philosophy.1948

 A hinduism primer (PDF) 

What is hinduism (full-book PDF)  (Hawaii Ashram link)

How to become a hindu? (PDF)  

What is hinduism (PDF) - another link for download if needed 

the-history-of-hindu-india

hindu-basics

fourteen-questions

Hindu mind by Bansi Pandit 

Some books in Advaita perspective

 Introduction to Vedanta by Dr. K. Sadananda

 Introduction to Vedanta – Audio by Swami Paramarthananda

 Tattva Bodhah – Swami Paramarthananda- Audio

 http://arshaavinash.in/index.php/books-by-swami-paramarthananda/

 Some websites 

https://ancientindianwisdom.com/ 

Vyoma Labs is an interesting institution teaching samskritam digitally.  The Center need not re-invent the technology products for samskritam teaching; collaborating with this institution would save money and time.  

The Jijnyasa Research and Education Foundation : http://ancientindianwisdom.com/
This is based in Florida but has roots in Hyderabad. They have created a similar resource to what the Center proposes to do but there is still a large space to cover. This involves academics who are indologists and samskrtam scholars  motivated by the idea of serving Sanathana Dharma in the ways only they can. It will be a crime to re-invent the wheel…mindlessly! 

 

 

 

peace day talk 2026

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