The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) in collaboration with Bodhigayavijalaya 980 Institute (BGVI) & Bharat Studies Centre, Mahachulalongkornrajyavidyalaya University (MCU), International Buddhist Confederation (IBC), India & Japan...
Left Historians were noseled by Karl Marx and Max Weber who influenced 20th Century Indian intellectualism, academics and historians. Karl Marx two articles in New York Harold Tribune in 1854 and Max Webers religion of Hinduism & Buddhism were...
On July 23, the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organized a talk on ‘‘Relationship between Hinduism and Buddhism” by Prof. Arvind Sharma, Birks Professor of Comparative Religion in the School of Religious Studies at McGill University in...
On June 24, the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organized a talk on ‘The Indic Religious Tradition and the Philosophical Tradition of India’ by Prof. Arvind Sharma, Birks Professor of Comparative Religion in the School of Religious...
It is imperative to reassess, formulate and develop India’s civilizational and cultural imperatives in an increasingly globalised world. The nation’s perception of its ancient history plays a major role in this. The present series on the history of...
On 17th May, 2023, Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organised a Vimarsh public lecture on ‘Hindutva and Religion’ by Prof. Arvind Sharma. Prof. Sharma, formerly of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), is the Birks Professor of...
On July 12, 2023, His Excellency, Dr. Mohammad Bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa, Secretary General of the Muslim World League, had intense dialogue on the subject of harmony of religions with several prominent Hindu religious leaders at the Vivekananda...
On 9th May, 2022, Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organised a book discussion on "Hinduism in America: A Convergence of Worlds, authored by Prof. Jeffery D. Long, Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Elizabethtown College, U.S.A....
On 13th August 2020, Vimarsh was held through a webinar at VIF, on the topic “Ayodhya Movement and National Polity.” This subject was thoroughly reviewed by Shri S Gurumurthy, Economic & Political Analyst and Chairman, VIF. The Ayodhya movement...
On the occasion of International Day of Yoga, VIF organized a talk by Professor Christopher Key Chapple (Loyola Marymount University, USA) under the VIF Lecture Series ‘Understanding Indian History & Civilization’. The talk was titled The Shared...