四座新的神殿由埃默里的学生和牧师设计，在印度手工雕刻，将允许在新的埃默里宗教间中心进行奉献和学习。 --贝基斯坦摄影。 4月11日（星期四）下午5:30，将为新的达尔密克祭坛和内阁举行奉献仪式。 男性。 请参阅下面的详细信息和注册。 受宗教呼吁减少对所有生物的伤害的影响，希哈沙于2022年秋天来到埃默里大学攻读公共卫生硕士学位。 沙阿信奉耆那教，当她最初在迎新仪式上几乎看不到自己的信仰时，她认为遵循她的宗教饮食习惯可能是一项挑战。 “有没有什么办法让我参与到一个面向印度文化的活动中来，或者尝试在这里建立一个社区？”沙阿回忆道，他曾在精神和宗教生活办公室（osrl）问过埃默里的印度教牧师brahmacharini shweta chaitanya。 4月11日，三个新的手工祭坛和一个与四种达尔密克宗教有关的橱柜将在新的埃默里宗教间中心供奉，向在埃默里信奉（或感兴趣）印度教、锡克教、印度教和佛教的每一个人表示更大的欢迎。 这些神殿是由埃默里大学的学生、教职员工和校友在osrl团队的帮助下设计的。 然后，它们在印度的古杰拉特被手工雕刻，并被运往8300英里外的埃默里。 柴田屋说：“我们一直在努力保护这些新的圣地，这样当学生们现在来到这里时，他们真的会觉得，‘我看到了我的传统，我在这里有了家。’”。 对于詹和锡克教的社区成员来说，设计新神社的过程更进一步，恰逢在埃默里成立了官方的詹和锡克学生协会。 chaitanya说：“这一过程不仅导致了对这些神殿的设想和调试，还发展了新的社区表达方式。”。 “‘谁没有参加谈判？’对我们来说是一个非常重要的问题。 rev说：“这是包容性的一个里程碑。”。 博士。 格雷戈里w。 麦戈尼格尔，埃默里大学牧师兼宗教生活系主任。 “有了这些新的神圣物品，我们的社区成员可以虔诚地使用，也可以向我们所有人学习，emory试图表达对历史上在这里或许多地方都看不到的传统的深深欢迎。 s。 校园。 “这些新的神殿安装在轮子上，可以在整个宗教间中心使用，是纪念活动的一部分，旨在支持所有学生、教职员工的宗教和精神生活。 埃默里增加了资源，如新的牧师角色、新的项目和新的空间，如宗教间中心，埃默里的每个人都被邀请了解更多关于这里实践的许多信仰。 在今世，斋戒尊24位提尔陀罗（开悟者），以与佛同时代的摩诃维结束。 在宗教间中心的新的jain祭坛包括一个提尔坦伽拉rishabanatha或adinath薄伽梵的图像。 罗林斯公共卫生学院的学生shikhashah在新的jain祭坛前祈祷，祭坛由emory教员和当地亚特兰大jain社区的成员捐赠。 来自孟买的沙阿说，祭坛出现在宗教间中心“帮助我继续我去寺庙祈祷的日常生活”。 “如果事情进展艰难，或者我只想后退一步，它给了我一个地方，让我可以去平静地冥想，并与我的精神自我建立联系。 仅仅因为我来这里是为了我的硕士学位，并不意味着我就被切断了信仰练习。 “emory的jain社区的长期支柱是jagdish n。 sheth，charles h。 盖祖埃塔商学院的kellstadt商业教授，他是靖国神社的捐助者。 sheth说：“我很高兴宗教间中心现在包括了一座印度教圣地。”。 “这是非常及时的，因为在埃默里，日本学生的数量正在增长。 同样重要的是，耆那教可能是最现代的古代宗教。 它的非暴力原则、对另类观点的宽容以及有意识的消费与当代的可持续性、社区参与和自我完善问题直接相关。 宗教副教授艾伦高，一个日本学者，同意。 她说：“我一次又一次地从学生那里听说，他们认为自己的传统与印度教不同，但在这个国家，jains有时只在印度教寺庙里找到练习的地方。”。 “现在，在不同信仰的中心，仅仅是这个独特的爪哇圣地的存在就非常重要。 与沙阿一样，资深的普拉布努尔·卡尔（prabhnoorkaur）一开始惊讶地发现，她的宗教在埃默里几乎没有代表性。 锡克教是世界上第五大宗教，有2500万信徒，但她最初在校园里只看到少数其他锡克教徒。 新的锡克教内阁以金殿为特色，金殿是锡克教最神圣的场所之一，并包括存放锡克教崇拜和奉献所用物品的空间。 考尔加入佐治亚理工大学的锡克学生协会“只是为了有人可以倾诉，一个不需要解释我身份就可以得到它的人”。 她与osrl合作，于2023年秋季在埃默里成立了一个类似的组织。 考尔还帮助设计了新的手工雕刻木柜，用来存放与锡克教崇拜有关的物品，如神圣的象征、和声和聚会时用来盖住地板的床单。 考尔指出，达尔密克宗教“对转世有着共同的信仰，只要你在这一生中行善，你最终就能获得启迪”。 “锡克教徒是这个家族中为数不多的不尊重图像的信仰之一，而是一部需要在古德瓦举行特定仪式的圣典。 我们的宗教内阁反映了我们并尊重我们，这是一种表明我们的信仰在这里受到欢迎的物理方式。 chaitanya说：“印度教祭坛印度教有很多变化，没有一个固定的崇拜形式或时间适合每个人。”。 “我们想建立一个开放的印度教圣地，学生和员工几乎可以在一周中的任何时候进入。 埃默里大学大四学生和学生政府协会主席尼哈穆尔蒂在新的印度教祭坛上献上印度教智慧女神的穆尔蒂。 圣地的穆尔提是智慧和学习女神萨拉斯瓦蒂的穆尔蒂。 在宗教间中心建造这座新的圣地将扩大对埃默里大型印度教社区的支持，该社区将从亚特兰大校区的主要礼拜中心坎农礼拜堂（cannon chapel）开始，该社区在周五和节假日与更多的会众聚在一起参加阿耳提节。 在宗教间中心，学生、教职员工几乎可以在一周中的任何时间进行礼拜。 这座新的、更容易接近的印度教祭坛提供了一个精神探索的空间，作为对课堂的补充，宗教助理教授、梵文文学、印度教和大屠杀音乐专家希夫·苏布拉马尼亚姆说。 subramaniam说：“在这个国家，大学往往是学生们第一次在没有家庭调解的情况下思考他们与宗教的联系。”。 “是否、何时以及如何崇拜这些问题突然就由你自己来回答了。 虽然课堂鼓励人们从各种角度思考宗教，但预期的临界距离会使个人问题难以探究。 像宗教间中心神龛室这样的空间提供了一个替代空间，学生可以在这里进行探索性工作。 “佛教祭坛——每一个新的神殿都提供了一个受教育的机会，”德高望重的priyarakkhit-sraman说，他是埃默里的佛教牧师，也是一名西拉瓦达佛教僧侣。 emory佛教俱乐部成员聚集在新的宗教间中心神龛室，讨论新的佛教神龛的设计细节。 他问道：“我们有传统的佛教修行者来，但也有正念冥想者和非佛教徒，那么他们是如何遇到靖国神社的？他们与什么故事有关？”。 “我们认为，对于每一个圣地，每一种传统。 每个社区都花了很多时间有意地创造圣地的叙事，并选择有意义、有教育意义和包容性的细节。 新的佛教圣地描绘了佛触摸大地的画面，下面是见证他开悟的大地女神。 斯拉曼说，这一姿态旨在与埃默里在环境可持续性方面的努力联系起来，并努力向穆斯科吉民族致敬，即埃默里现在所在土地上的土著人民。 “这种对土地、历史和传统的承认，我们认为这个圣地可以将这个故事发扬光大，并将其与佛陀与地球的关系联系起来。 他补充道：“我们希望这些圣地能共同表达每个人之间的联系。”。 “在许多人的一生中，这样的故事表明我们中没有人在做任何全新的事情。 很长一段时间以来，我们一直在以许多不同的方式，一次又一次地尊重神圣的东西。 4月11日，星期四，下午5:30，献上达尔密克祭坛和橱柜。 男性。 位于迪凯特北路1707号的埃默里宗教间中心庆祝活动将包括对印度教、佛教和耆那教祭坛以及锡克教内阁的祝福。 学生反思、音乐和节日大餐都是此次活动的一部分。 在这里注册参加。designed by emory students and chaplains and hand-carved in india, four new shrines will allow for devotions and learning in the new emory interfaith center.— photos by becky stein photography.a dedication ceremony for the new dharmic altars and cabinet will be held thursday, april 11, at 5:30 p.m. see below for details and to register.influenced by her religion’s call to reduce harm to all living beings, shikha shah came to emory university in fall 2022 to pursue a master’s degree in public health. shah practices jainism, and when she initially saw little representation of her faith at orientation, she thought that following her religious dietary practices, for instance, might be challenging.“was there any way that i could get involved in something oriented toward jain culture, or to try to build a community here?” shah recalls asking brahmacharini shweta chaitanya, emory’s hindu chaplain in the office of spiritual and religious life (osrl).on april 11, three new handmade altars and a cabinet related to four dharmic religions will be dedicated at the new emory interfaith center, extending a greater welcome for everyone at emory who practices (or is interested in) jainism, sikhism, hinduism and buddhism.the shrines were designed by emory students, faculty, staff and alumni with the help of the osrl team. they were then hand-carved in gujarat, india, and shipped 8,300 miles to emory.“we have worked hard to secure these new shrines so that when students arrive here now, they can really feel, ‘i see my tradition, and i have a home here,’” chaitanya says.for jain and sikh community members, the process of designing the new shrines went even further, coinciding with the founding of official jain and sikh student associations at emory.“this process led to not just envisioning and commissioning these shrines, but also developing new expressions of community,” chaitanya says. “‘who has not been at the table?’ is a very important question to us.”“this is a milestone of inclusion,” says the rev. dr. gregory w. mcgonigle, emory’s university chaplain and dean of religious life. “with these new sacred items for our community members to use devotionally, and also for all of us to learn from, emory seeks to express a deep welcome to traditions that have not historically been as visible here or on many u.s. campuses.”the new shrines, which are mounted on wheels so they can be used throughout the interfaith center, are part of a larger movement at emory to support the religious and spiritual lives of all students, faculty and staff. emory has added resources such as new chaplain roles, new programs and new spaces like the interfaith center, and everyone at emory is invited to learn more about the many faiths practiced here.jain altarjains revere 24 tirthankaras (enlightened beings) in the present age, ending with mahavir, who was a contemporary of the buddha. the new jain altar in the interfaith center includes an image of the tirthankara rishabhanatha or adinath bhagavan.rollins school of public health student shikha shah prays in front of the new jain altar, donated by emory faculty and members of the local atlanta jain community.the altar’s presence at the interfaith center “helps me continue my routine of going to the temple to pray,” says shah, who is from mumbai. “it gives me a place to go and meditate in peace and connect with my spiritual self if things are going hard or i just want to take a step back. just because i’ve come here for my master’s doesn’t mean that im cut off from my faith practices.”the longtime anchor of emory’s jain community is jagdish n. sheth, the charles h. kellstadt professor of business at goizueta business school, who was a benefactor to the shrine.“i am very pleased that the interfaith center now includes a shrine for jainism,” sheth says. “this is very timely as the number of jain students is growing at emory. equally important is that jainism is perhaps the most contemporary ancient religion. its tenets of nonviolence, tolerance of alternative perspectives as well as mindful consumption are directly relevant to contemporary issues of sustainability, community engagement and self-improvement.”associate professor of religion ellen gough, a jainism scholar, agrees. “i hear time and time again from students that they see their tradition as distinct from hinduism, but in this country, jains have sometimes only found places to practice within hindu temples,” she says. “the mere existence of this distinct jain shrine at the interfaith center now is hugely important.”sikh cabinetlike shah, senior prabhnoor kaur was initially surprised to see little representation of her religion at emory. sikhism is the fifth-largest religion in the world, with 25 million followers, but she initially saw only a few other sikhs on campus.the new sikh cabinet features images of the golden temple, one of the religion’s holiest sites, and includes space to store items used in sikh worship and devotions.kaur joined the sikh students association at georgia tech “just to have somebody to talk to, somebody who just gets it without having to explain my identity.” she worked with osrl to get a similar organization chartered at emory in fall 2023. kaur also helped design the new, hand-carved wooden cabinet to store objects related to sikh worship, such as sacred symbols, a harmonium and sheets used to cover the floor during gatherings.the dharmic religions “hold a shared belief of reincarnation, and that as long as you do good in this life, you can ultimately achieve enlightenment,” kaur notes. “sikhs are one of the few faiths in this family that don’t revere images, but rather a holy scripture that requires specific rituals at a gurdwara. our religious cabinet is something that reflects us and respects us, and it’s a physical way of showing that our faith is welcome here.”hindu altar hinduism has so many variations “that there isn’t a set worship form or time for everybody,” chaitanya says. “we wanted to create an open hindu shrine, that students and employees can access almost any time throughout the week.”emory college senior and student government association president neha murthy offers devotions at the new hindu altar with a murti of the hindu goddess of wisdom.the shrine’s murti is that of saraswati, the goddess of wisdom and learning.having this new shrine at the interfaith center will expand support for emory’s large hindu community from cannon chapel, the atlanta campus’ main worship center, where the community gathers on fridays for aarthi and on holidays with a larger congregation.at the interfaith center, students, faculty and staff can visit almost any time throughout the week for their devotions. this new, more accessible hindu altar provides a space for spiritual exploration as a complement to the classroom, says assistant professor of religion shiv subramaniam, an expert on sanskrit literature, hinduism and carnatic music.“in this country, college is often the first time students think about their connection to religion without the mediation of family,” subramaniam says. “whether, when and how to worship these questions are suddenly yours alone to answer. and while the classroom encourages thinking about religion from all sorts of angles, the critical distance expected there can make personal questions difficult to explore. a space like the interfaith center shrine room offers an alternative space where students can do that exploratory work.”buddhist altar each of the new shrines presents an educational opportunity, says the venerable priya rakkhit sraman, emory’s buddhist chaplain and a theravada buddhist monk.emory buddhist club members gather in the new interfaith center shrine room to discuss the design details of the new buddhist shrine.“we have traditional buddhist practitioners who come, but there are also mindful meditators and non-buddhists, so how might they encounter the shrine? what story would they connect with?” he asks. “we considered that for each shrine for each tradition. each community spent a lot of time intentionally creating the narrative of the shrine and choosing its details to be meaningful, educational and inclusive.”the new buddhist shrine portrays the buddha touching the earth, with the earth goddess who witnessed his enlightenment just below. this gesture seeks to connect with emory’s efforts toward environmental sustainability, and efforts to honor the muscogee nation, the indigenous people of the land where emory now exists, sraman says.“this acknowledgment of the land, history and traditions we thought this shrine could carry forward that story and connect it back with the buddha’s relationship with the earth.“together we hope these shrines express how connected everyone is,” he adds. “over many lifetimes, such stories show that none of us is doing anything completely new. we’ve been honoring what is holy for a long time, in many different ways, over and over again.”dedication of dharmic altars and cabinetthursday, april 11, at 5:30 p.m.emory interfaith center, 1707 north decatur roadthe celebration will include blessings for the hindu, buddhist and jain altars and the sikh cabinet. student reflections, music and a festive meal are part of this event.register here to attend.亲，点击此处在线申请留学咨询服务和报名评估！我们将竭诚提供最佳评估服务！
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