Georgetown University Appoints Hindu Priest as College Chaplain By _Anugrah Kumar_ (http://www.christianpost.com/author/anugrah-kumar/) , Christian Post Contributor August 31, 2016|9:12 am Georgetown, a Jesuit university, is now the first academic institution in the United States with a Hindu chaplain, Brahmachari Vrajvihari Sharan, who led the first Hindu worship service on campus on Sunday. Sharan began the morning service by asking worshipers, about 40 college students, to still their minds. "Close all the tabs that are open, just as you would do to a Firefox window," he said, according to _The Washington Post_ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/08/30/georgetown- a-jesuit-university-is-the-first-u-s-college-with-a -hindu-priest-as-a-chaplain/) . The first Hindu priest to serve in the role of chaplain at any university in the United States, Sharan was wearing a traditional white garb as he chanted Sanskrit mantras and played the harmonium as he led the service on campus in Washington, D.C. "All of us students, we're religious and Hindu, but we wouldn't have been able to do what Brahmachari-ji (names are suffixed with "ji" in India to show respect)," Neharika Khandavalli, a senior at the university, was quoted as saying. Sharan, who is 31 years old, was trained as a priest at ashrams in India, completed his PhD in Sanskrit at the University of Edinburgh and taught at universities in Wales and London. Georgetown is now seeking a graduate assistant to support the Hindu chaplain. "The Hindu Life Graduate Assistant is expected to support the new Hindu Chaplain with development and implementation of Hindu Life programming through the Office of Campus Ministry." -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RC] Georgetown University Appoints Hindu Priest as College Chaplain
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