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This week we feature: an action highlight and an aesthetic!
Action Highlight: Making Knowledge Accessible
Tanner Greer is a China expert and scholar who runs the blog Scholarβs Stage, a very insightful blog that engages with politics in a deep and thoughtful manner, with a loot of focus on China and its current political situation. He wrote an interesting twitter thread recently which is extremely applicable to Hindu temples and Hindu communities looking to actually transmit knowledge.
So how does this apply to Hindu temples and organizations? Its important if you want to impart Hindu knowledge, teach Hindu texts, and chronicle Hindu history, that you make resources to learn those topics easily accessible. Organizations like Himalayan Academy, Kinchitkaram Trust, Upword, Govardhan Math and others have great written and audiovisual resources that teach Hinduism and Hindu topics in an accessible way. On top of that, spending time thinking about how to develop a curriculm for imparting religious knowledge in your organization and sharing that widely is another method of doing so. Start building small online Hindu libraries, banks of worksheets and explainers on Hindu topics, and FAQs.
Remember, knowledge that is easy to consume, and frictionless to consume, is more likely to be consumed. Do you want Hinduphobic bigots like the DGH folks defining Hinduism or do you think Hindus should define Hinduism?