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Culture and Civilisational Digest: February- 2025

ASI team in Vadnagar to assess 2,000-yr-old wall- The Times of India
A high-level team consisting of Dr Y S Rawat, director general of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), the ADG of conservation from ASI, and Prof Arun Menon from II....

March 17, 2025 Buddhism , Samvad , Nalanda , Archaeological Survey of India , Culture And Civilisation , - Vadnagar , Iron Age , Maha Kumbh , Ekushe February , International Mother Language Day , Jhumur , Dharma-Dhamma , Dwarka Excavation , Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj , Ratnagiri
The Asian Century of Dharma - Dhamma; Call for Universal Responsibility and Interdependent Sustainability
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) in collaboration with Bodhigayavijalaya 980 Institute (BGVI) & Bharat Studies Centre, Mahachulalongkornrajyavidyalaya University (MCU), International Buddhist Confederation (IBC), India & Japan Foundatio....

March 06, 2025 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Commentary , India , Buddhism , Thailand , Samvad , dharma , Hinduism , Bodh Gaya , Dhamma , Hindu Buddhist , Krabi
Opinion | Samvad And The Asian Century Of Dharma And Dhamma
Dr Anirban Ganguly Article

The fourth edition of Samvad – the Global Hindu-Buddhist Initiative for Conflict Avoidance and Environmental Consciousness will be held in Thailand from 14 to 17 February. This flagship outreach programme, initiated in 2015 by Prime Minister....

February 16, 2025 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Article , Samvad , dharma , The Asian Century , Dhamma , Hindu-Buddhist Initiative
VIF Interaction with the visiting delegation from Iran On Interfaith Dialogue in the Historical Perspective, especially from India and Iran Point of View

On December 15, 2022, the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organized an interaction with a high level delegation from Iran. The theme of the discussion was 'Interfaith Dialogue in the Historical Perspective, especially from India and Iran P....

December 26, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Historical and Civilisational Studies , Interaction , Conflict Avoidance , Samvad , Religions , Interfaith Dialogue
Talk on ‘Asia as Method: Towards Deimperialisation and its Afterlife’

The Vivekananda International Foundation organised a talk titled ‘Asia as Method: Towards Deimperialisation and its Afterlife’ by Professor Chen Kuan-Hsing on 20 June 2022. Prof. Chen is an academic from Taiwan, who specialises in inter-Asian cul....

July 14, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Historical and Civilisational Studies , Interaction , Samvad , inter-Asian , cultural studies
A Tribute to Late Shinzo Abe
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

“I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason I am ready to give everything for Japan.”
- Shinzo Abe (wrote in 2012)
Shinzo Abe would go on to give his all to Japan a decade later....

July 12, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , India , Japan , Samvad , JINF , Abe , VIF
Shared Buddhist Heritage between India and Russia

Speakers from Russian side: Prof. Tatiana Shaumyan, Professor for Indian Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Scholar from Kalmykia Region, Telo Rinpoche (Honorary Representative of His Holiness for the Dalai Lama in Russia, Mong....

August 24, 2021 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Conferences , Samvad , Global Initiative , Hindu-Buddhist
Interaction with Ambassador of Japan to India, H.E. Mr. Satoshi Suzuki

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) hosted an online interaction with the Ambassador of Japan to India, H.E. Mr. Satoshi Suzuki on 29 June 2020. The one-and-a-half-hour interaction saw participation by many stalwarts from New Delhi’s str....

July 01, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Interaction , Act East , Samvad , COVID-19 , Self-reliance , Ambassador of Japan , standing cooperation , Global Partnership
Samvad: Global Hindu-Buddhist Initiative for Conflict Avoidance - Inter-Religious Understanding and Interdependent Sustainability, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, September 6 and 7, 2019

The III Edition of Samvad at Ulaanbaatar was a great success in many ways. In particular it cemented the relation between India and Mongolia as Spiritual Partners. It was held in the premises of Gandan Monastery in Ulaanbaatar. The pre - inaugura....

April 17, 2020 Conference , Historical and Civilisational Studies , Conflict Avoidance , Samvad , Ulaanbaatar , Global Hindu-Buddhist Initiative , Inter-Religious Understanding , Interdependent Sustainability
Mongolia’s Buddhist Diplomacy and India’s Union of Religious and Foreign Policy
Article

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), along with Indian, Japanese, and Mongolian partners, hosted its third Samvad (which, in Hindi, means “dialogue”) conference in Ulaanbaatar over last Friday and the weekend. As reported in BDG’s ne....

September 16, 2019 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Article , South Korea , China , Myanmar , Japan , Asia , Buddhism , Samvad , A New India , Ulaanbaatar , buddhist diplomacy , vifindia , military , mongolia , religion
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