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Hindu Studies

Shanti: A Journey of Peace

Saturday, October 1st 2016, 3:00pm

You are cordially invited to attend the upcoming performance of Shanti: A Journey of Peace, a spectacular multi-media musical production that fuses western choral and orchestral music with Indian musical and dance elements. The event will be held at the Oakland Mormon Temple, 4780 Lincoln Avenue, Oakland, CA, on October 1, 2016, at 3:00 pm. Tickets purchased for the postponed performance originally scheduled for May 21, 2016, will be honored on...

December 09, 2015

GTU Establishes First Center for Dharma Studies in U.S.

December 9, 2015, For Immediate Release

The Graduate Theological Union (GTU) of Berkeley, California, has announced a $4.4 million gift from Mira and Ajay Shingal to establish and endow the first Center for Dharma Studies in the United States. The Center will focus on leading edge, multidisciplinary, graduate research and teaching in Hindu Studies and Dharma Studies. The GTU currently offers a graduate certificate in Hindu Studies, MA and PhD degree concentrations in Hindu Studies, and courses in Jain Studies. The Mira and Ajay Shingal Center for Dharma Studies will support...

Experiencing the Divine: Sacred World Music

Friday, April 12th 2019, 12:30am to 2:30am

Join us for a lunchtime event on Hindu devotional, or bhakti, music, featuring a lecture by Dr. Graham Schweig in the Doug Adams Gallery and followed by vocals and musical performance by Stefan Andre Waligur, and special guest Karnamrita Dasi. Lunch to follow.

GTU Student Lounge

The Secret Yoga of the Goddess

Thursday, March 15th 2018, 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Join the Center for Dharma Studies for a lecture on Tripura, the Great Goddess, with Professor Y. Shastri. 

GTU Student Lounge

May 05, 2015

New Options for Interreligious Studies

By Arthur Holder

from Currents Fall 2015

The GTU is a great place to study different religious traditions. Resources abound for students interested in Christianity (Protestant, Catholic, or Orthodox), Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Confucianism, Taoism, and now Hinduism and Sikhism. But in today’s increasingly pluralistic world, many students come to the GTU not to study any single tradition, but to explore the connections between two or more of them. Students may be interested in Muslim-Jewish relations, or...

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