{"id":22733,"date":"2015-12-20T16:34:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T15:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/135574025226"},"modified":"2017-01-27T13:15:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T12:15:55","slug":"4-6-million-endowed-for-new-hindu-studies-program-in-berkeley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=22733","title":{"rendered":"$4.6 Million Endowed for New Hindu Studies Program in Berkeley,&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41618\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_nznxwsMMUr1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nznxwsMMUr1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nznxwsMMUr1sbj0vuo1_500-280x139.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>$4.6 Million Endowed for New Hindu Studies Program in Berkeley, California. <br \/>\nAjay Shingal \u2013 a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur \u2013 said in a press statement announcing the endowment: \u201cI have two kids, they don\u2019t go to the temple without us. I truly believe if we want these temples to survive, our kids have to be very grounded in their religion through education.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cTo me the biggest contribution one can make is the gift of education; I truly believe that the institution we are forming at GTU will be transformative in its impact,\u201d said Shingal, who serves on the Board of Trustees of the Dharma Civilization Foundation.<br \/>\nRead the entire article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/VTnVJM\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/VTnVJM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/12371e9eb64f4ce1ae8b8535583d1746\/tumblr_nznxwsMMUr1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>$4.6 Million Endowed for New Hindu Studies Program in Berkeley, California. <br \/>\nAjay Shingal &ndash; a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur &ndash; said in a press statement announcing the endowment: &ldquo;I have two kids, they don&rsquo;t go to the temple without us. I truly believe if we want these temples to survive, our kids have to be very grounded in their religion through education.&rdquo;<br \/>\n&ldquo;To me the biggest contribution one can make is the gift of education; I truly believe that the institution we are forming at GTU will be transformative in its impact,&rdquo; said Shingal, who serves on the Board of Trustees of the Dharma Civilization Foundation.<br \/>\nRead the entire article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/VTnVJM\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/VTnVJM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41619,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22733\/revisions\/41619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}