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| BBC_World_Service Guide to Buddhism with online audio. |
| Buddhist_Information_of_North_America Free Buddhist e-texts, books, lectures, and teachings. Links to individual schools of Buddhism. |
| Cyberkaya An interactive Dharma Journal. It has been a meeting place for Dharma practitioners who may work independent of the organizations and schools of institutional Buddhism. It is no longer being updated |
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| E-Sangha_Buddhism_Portal Features directory, discussion forum, gallery, sutras and weblog. |
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| Individual_Answers_to_Your_Questions_About_Buddhism Confidential answers to your questions by the volunteer members of Allexperts.com. |
| Instructions_for_Daily_Dharma_Practice A non-sectarian program geared to American Buddhists to be used as part of one's daily Buddhist practice. |
| Kalavinka_Dharma_World Informational website which includes a non-sectarian Buddhist journal (Kalavinka Dharma Notes) and translations of stories and teachings. Translations include sections from Lotus Sutra, Nagarjuna, Mas |
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| Manjushri_Buddhist_Online_Community Buddhist history, teachings, way of life, and the locations of the Buddhist Dharma centers and temples. |
| Sasana__A_Refuge_for_the_Skeptical_Buddhist A Buddhist community with respect for tradition, but that does not blindly accept the baggage of the centuries. |
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| Celebrations_Around_the_World Provides holiday activities, games, and links |
| Donna\'s_Holiday_Sentiments Includes animated stories, poems, online interactive games, visuals and free internet greeting cards. |
| Education_World__Special_Days Craft ideas and projects for kids on various holidays that emphasize multicultural learning, gift-giving, and peace. |
| eHow_Index Holidays and events by category. |
| Flower\'s_Holiday_Pages Holidays poems, jokes, and clipart. |
| Gramma_Lowe\'s_Home Holiday fun ideas and crafts for kids and older. Also miscellaneous crafts, crochet, knit and plastic canvas. |
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| Holiday_Family_Fun Holidays on a family budget, ideas on crafts for the kids, decorations, and recipes. |
| Holiday_Fun_Cathy_and_Tim A personal page put together by two collaborators that features the most recent USA holiday at hand. |
| Holiday_Greetings Traces the ancient origins of holiday celebrations and traditions. |
| Holiday_Homepages Concentrates on education, entertainment and fun. |
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| The_Holiday_Zone Includes seasonal language arts activities, games, songs, fingerplays and action rhymes, and crafts. |
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| HolidayPages4u Offers histories of Christmas, Halloween, and Thanksgiving. |
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| Holidays_and_Celebrations Holiday fun and information, party planning, recipes, holiday graphics, seasonal poems and quotes. |
| Holidays_At_Home Weekly articles about different holidays or topic pertaining to holidays. Covers topics such as planning, decorations, invitations, and working on a budget. |
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It's been said often enough that Hindus celebrate everything. So they do. The birth of gods, death of asuras, victory of the gods, marriage of the gods, the new year, new months, full moons, new moons, harvests, birthdays, initiations, marriages, deaths, anniversaries - you name the event, and it is reason for music, dance, processions, and what have you. And there is the religious bit lurking behind it all. The reasons for this lie deep, in the origin of Hinduism as an organic religion. Its followers have over time considered anything, animate or inanimate, to be sacred and aspects of divinity. That is also why even secular events like harvests take on religious overtones, with the patron deity presiding over the festivities. As soon as something happens, there is a kind of thanksgiving to the divine that follows it. Apart from the universally celebrated festivals like Dussehra, Diwali and Ganesh Chaturthi, there are others that are observed in specific communities or geographical areas. Hindu holidays are also confined to particular regions by the importance a certain god enjoys. Worship of Kartikeya (as during the festival of Skanda Shashti) is predominant in Tamil Nadu, where the god is considered a patron of the region. Onam is a good example of a festival that is celebrated solely by Keralites. Another interesting aspect of Onam is that it is perhaps the only major Hindu festival that celebrates the reign of an asura king, although a benevolent one. The profusion of legends and the contradictions inherent in them is reflected in festivals too. Travel around the country, and you will hear people tell you a variety of legends involving different gods behind a single festival. Besides, you will also find versions of the same festival being celebrated under different names in different regions. All this adds that facet of unending novelty and constant change to the strikingly colourful kaleidoscope that is India. You might end up thinking the thought: "The more things change, the more they remain the same", which is something often said about India and its magical agelessness. With so many holy days and more than 20 major hindu festivals, the calendar should be liberally sprinkled with them. But it isn't so. There is a distinct festival season, which runs from late August through December. This is when there is a fever of celebrations, with a string of important festivals following one another in a rush. But the major festivals are not the only ones that the people celebrate. Browse through the Hindu almanac, and you will find a mention of holiness or sacredness against almost every day of the year. Most of the lesser festivals are lesser because they have a private rather than public face. 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