from: Campaigner 2010 date: Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:57 PM subject: Updated list of 5285 Hindu Websites including 1810 Yoga & Ayurveda Websites PLUS Details on ROMAs..
Brahmande HinduDharma Janeh: Swagatam!
Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam “Whole world is our single family�. It is truly emerging today as more than 15% of World Population is Hindus and 110 Crore ( i.e. 1100 Million) plus Hindus living in more than 115 Countries of the world. (Data: End of Year 2010 / Early 2011).
A. Countrywise Hindu Population (in Crores), 1 Crore: 10 Million 1.
10.
India Indonesia Malaysia Mauritius
13.
Kenya
4. 7.
98.80 0.78 0.22 0.08
2. 5. 8. 11.
Nepal Sri Lanka USA S Africa
2.60 0.37 0.17 0.08
3.
12.
Bangla Desh Pakistan UK Canada
6. 9.
1.65 0.26 0.09 0.05
0.05
B. Country/Territory wise % of Hindu Population 1.
Bali
4.
Mauritius Suriname Bangla Desh
2.
Nepal
85%
3.
India
49% 26%
5.
Fiji Trinidad & Tobago
34% 23%
6.
8.
9.
Guyana S. Lanka
10%
11.
Malaysia
7%
12.
Reunion
93.5% (Indonesia
80.5%,
2% plus), 7. 10.
13.
Singapore
32% 15% 7% (France 0.1%)
4%
Note: Though, in many Gulf Countries, Hindu population varies from 3 to 22% but mostly they are not permanent settlers there.
Regarding this Database collection, we in India, worked for few weeks to collect details and compile Websites, Logos and Email addresses available in public domains of Hindu Organizations/ Parisadas/ Leaders/ Political Institutions/ NGOs/ Temples spread throughout the world. The information collected is from 121 Countries/Territories and belongs to their respective Institutions/ Organization/ Websites. In this database, nearly 80 Websites have been repeated with different links to include important & comprehensive information, details or contents on the subject. Majority of this repetition is using Website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Now, we have attached the following updates: 1
I. Websites sorted alphabetically: 5285 Websites
These websites include: A. Lords/ Deities: 1.
Vishnu, Vaishnava
161
2.
Shiva
153 (additional, 22 Sri Shankaracharya Sites)
3.
Brahma
12
4.
All Goddesses
74
5.
Ganesha Murugan Ayyappa
34 14 13
Dashavatara 1.
Rama
95
2.
Krishna
115 (additional, 660 ISKCON & 17 Shree Radha Madhav Soc.sites)
Other Deities 1.
Hanuman
20
B. Spiritual Organisations: 1.
ISKCON
660
2.
RK Mission
78
3.
BAPS, Shree Swaminarayan
74
4.
Vedanta Society
42
5.
40
6.
OSHO
25
8.
22
9.
Swami Ramakrishnananda Sri Ram Charran
28
7.
10.
Ananda Sangha, Paramhansa Yogananda Shree Radha Madhav Soc Patanjali Yogpeeth, Baba Ramdev Swami Sivanand Brahmakumaris
22
11.
Shirdi Sai Sansthan Sri Shankaracharya & Mathas Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
19
12.
Arya Samaj
18
17
14.
17
15.
17.
12
18.
Sri Aurobindo Ashram Sri Sathya Sai Sansthan
15
13
AOL, Sri Sri Ravishankar Chinmaya Mission
11
20.
11
21.
Gayatri Parivar
8
8
23.
Bharat Sevashram Sangha Ramana Maharishi
7
24.
Kauai’s Hindu Monastery
5
Sri Vivekananda Yoga University
5
26.
Isha Foundation
13. 16.
19. 22. 25.
3
22
12
27.
Note: List of Vivekananda’s Vedanta Society websites does not include Bhakti Vedanta, Dvait Vedanta and Advait Vedanta spoken by other Saints.
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Updated list includes 359 Blogs/ Discussion Forum etc. II. Websites sorted under 78 broad Categories: 1. 4. 7. 10. 13. 16. 19.
Yoga Ayurveda
1557 237
2.
Temples Information
833 234
3.
Scripture Festival Leaders
135 76 61
8.
126 66 59
9.
14.
Movement Saint Community
News Magazine Yagya
46
17.
Publication
44
30
20.
Meditation
30
5.
11.
6.
Organizations Astrology
783 160
15.
Pilgrimage Education Sanskrit
79 64 54
18.
Youth
32
Vedic Mathematics
24
12.
21.
Note: From India, the most of the larger Hindu Spiritual Establishments/Ashramas have been listed under Organization category and not as Yoga Centres.
III. Websites sorted under 121 broad Country Reference 1. 4. 7. 10. 13. 16. 19. 22. 25. 28.
India Canada Australia
1970 217 95
2. 5. 8. 11.
USA Indonesia Germany
1354 109 81
3.
Thailand Italy Singapore Ireland
42 38 31 25
12.
6. 9.
UK Russia S. Africa
France Spain Costa Rica Argentina
44 38 31 27
20.
New Zealand Trinidad & Tobogo
23 17
26.
Pakistan Sweden
22 16
27.
Mexico Sri Lanka
21 16
29.
Switzerland
15
30.
Mauritius
13
Cambodia
15
14. 17.
23.
15. 18. 21. 24.
Netherland Nepal Brazil Malaysia
277 98 69 40 36 30 23
Note: USA websites include 586 Yoga Centres & Studios
IV. E-Mail addresses collected from 121 Countries: 5971
1.
Broad Group Temples & Organizations
3649
2.
Yoga Ayurveda
1982
2.
USA
248 101
5.
7.
Canada Indonesia
8.
Australia South Africa
10.
Malaysia
61
11.
Singapore
1. 4.
Country Wise India
&
1947
3.
Astrology & Vedic Sciences
1636
3.
UK
403
151 92
6.
Germany Russia
109 74
46
3
9.
382
Note: List of email addresses of Temples & Organizations listed in group of 500 in txt format is only attached. V. Hindu
Symbols and Logos of Organization, Temples, Councils etc: Total 453 Logos 1. 4.
Organizations Communities Educational Institutes
&
144
2.
83
5.
OM & other Symbols Governing Bodies
101
3.
18
6.
Temples & Spiritual Orgns Saffron Organizations
96 11
Note: Logos Attachment (Zip File) dropped as size exceeded 27.0 MB VI. Many Photographs (Historical & New): VII. Database Analysis: From the Database collected so far, the following loose inference is made, which may be not taken as ground for any controversy. 1. ISKCON is a world in itself and very focused for activities worldwide. 2. From India, the Four Top Hindu Leaders of the two Millennium, according to their contributions, are listed below: 1.
Sri Adi Shankaracharya
8-9th Century AD
2.
Mahatma Gandhi
19-20th Century AD
3.
AC Bhakti Vedanta Srila Prabhu Pada (The founder Acharya of ISKCON) Swami Vivekananda
19-20th Century AD
4.
19-20th Century AD
Note: The list kept short as it may lead controversies for hierarchical order etc. 3. In Comparison to the Western Countries (like USA, Canada & UK), Hindu Population to no. of Hindu Websites ratio is very low for Nepal & Bangladesh. This speaks about low Media awakening level there. 4. No. of Websites & Temples for Lord Brahma are few in comparison to Lord Vishnu & Lord Shiva. (Trideva). VIII. Magnificent locations to visit: If you have not visited the following, kindly check the same in Image search of Google. The magnificent ones......... 4
1.
“Angkor Vishnu" and "Angkor Wat"
2.
"Prambanan Temple" (a group of Shiva & Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia Chandi Temples) "Besakih Temple" and "Bali Temples" Bali, Indonesia
3.
Siem Reap, Cambodia
4.
"Akshardham Delhi"
Delhi, India
5.
"Kailshnath Bhaktapur"
Kathmandu, Nepal
6.
"Murugan Batu Caves"
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
7.
"Murudeshwar Temple"
Karnataka, India
8.
"Jakhu Hanuman Statue"
Himachal Pradesh, India
9.
"Hanuman Trinidad"
Trinidad & Tobago
10.
"Vishnu Statue Bali"
Bali, Indonesia
11.
"Samudra Manthan Bangkok"
Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok
IX. Information on ROMAs (Gypsies): We studied details on Roma Community which is today in 15 Million Plus and spread in 27 Countries of Europe & few in Americas & Australia. Majority of Historians agree that they are descendants of Hindus (Rajputs & few tribal community) of North West India including Hindu Kush Region who were repeatedly attacked by Mahmud Ghaznavi (i.e Sultan who looted Somnath Temple in Gujarat on many times & destroyed it) in 11th century and finally taken them slave, in many thousands of numbers, to Persia. Weakening of Rulers there , Romas further migrated to Armenia, Balkans, Rumania & other part of Europe. Still, many of them follow counting system, words for their day to day activities & many customs & worshiping of Gods based on Hindu system. As an academic interest & for awareness, we collected Websites and Email addresses (of those who are subject experts or leaders of the Community) and the same are attached. A similar example but older than Roma plight is of an Israeli race who migrated to Mizoram in India more than 2500 years back. Israelis carried out DNA testing and found the truth. Accordingly, many thousands of Mizos recently migrated back to Israel. (http://www.chhinlungisrael.com/mizo-israel).
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By outside aggression, Ramas (Hindus) of Western India were made to become Romas but today they are awaken and finding their roots and ancient linkages to connect back to Ramas. If you have more details or links on Roma Community, kindly send to us.
XI. General Points for Database We have only listed working Websites & E-Mail addresses in the lists attached. Kindly enlarge magnification of pdf file to 125 % or more to see Websites clearly. Click on any website address shall directly enable access to it. It is for your kind information that we have listed sites/Logos/E-Mails etc under broad category/reference country etc as it is difficult to categorize them by water tight boundaries. Also few websites have been listed under World category as they either have larger dimensions or country reference could not be found. Kindly check the websites directly in xxx.xxx.xxx or xxx.xxx format, as the case may be and without using prefix www, as few websites' names listed are without www. We sincerely feel that so far we could collect around 85-90% information of all Hindu Websites in the vast Internet public domain. Any updation (addition/ deletion/ correction/ changing category etc) may please be informed and shall be received by us with due respect. In case any other detail, other than listed and specifc to Country/Organisation/Deity wise needed, we shall be happy to provide.
An Appeal: Database attached may not be used in any form for marketing of any product/commercial activity etc. If we have added any website/Email entry wrongly, kindly send a line to us for taking necessary action in this regard. We apologize in advance for any error done by us. A Quote from Mahatma Gandhi "There is no path to peace. Peace is the path" A Quote from Swami Vivekananda “In a day when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are traveling in the wrong path�
Om Namah! Hindus Media Network
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