“If I’m not getting better, then I’m stagnating, and if I’m stagnating, what’s the point? So I have to be pushing myself, questioning who I am. Hinduism to me is finding my dharma through a process of self-improvement.”—Abhijith Ravinutala, MTS ’19... Read more about Humans of HDS: Bringing Knowledge Out of Ivory Towers
Student Hal Edmonson said the monasticism series at the CSWR aims "to show the diversity of contemplative practices that exists in Boston and around the world, and what that wisdom has to offer to a very complex moment in our history."
This feature is part of an HDS Communications interview series offering students a closer look at selected upcoming courses. Below, we chat with Professor Anne Monius about her fall 2017 class “Indian Religions Through Their Narrative Literatures”—an examination of the religious traditions and communities of South Asia through the stories they tell.... Read more about Shopping Period: The Epics of Indian Religions
Shrestha Singh grew up in the Bay Area in California. She is the daughter of Indian immigrants and has an older sister and a pit bull mix named Scout, whom she loves very much. Shrestha is the Hindu Chaplain at both Wellesley College and Brandeis University.... Read more about Humans of HDS: My Path to Hindu Chaplaincy
Professor Frank Clooney, director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, discusses finding, losing, and again finding wisdom in Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali.
