'Encyclopedia of Hinduism' to be presented to President

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The ‘Encyclopedia of Hinduism’ complied by a Rishikesh-based organisation, India Heritage Research Foundation, would be presented to President Pranab Mukherjee at the Rashtrapati Bhawan on Monday. Conceptualised by Swami Chidanand Saraswati, founder of IHRF, the encyclopedia carries 7,000 entries contributed by more than 1,000 scholars across the world. The IHRF claimed that the project took 25 years to accomplish and the exhaustive work is compiled in 11 volumes. It says that in Encyclopedia of Hinduism for the first time in history the depth and breadth of India's great spiritual culture is made available in authentic, academic and scholastic form.The encyclopedia is a compendium of thousands of years of history, science, art, architecture, polity, religion, philosophy and culture, it said. The encyclopedia was launched in India by Tibetan spiritual guru Dalai lama.          

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