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India Heritage Research Foundation

India Heritage Research Foundation is an international, non-profit, humanitarian foundation founded and chaired by one of India's most revered saints, H.H. Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji. IHRF runs and sponsors free schools, women's vocational training programs, a medical clinic, orphanages/gurukuls, frequent free medical health camps, "Clean, Green and Serene" programs, organic gardening programs, Cow-Care programs, an extensive rural development program, and innumerable other humanitarian projects including the first ever Encyclopedia of Hinduism as well as ashrams and medical clinics in the sacred land of Mansarovar and Mt. Kailash in Tibet.

 
Live Webcast: 51st Anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day

Ganga Clean Up

Pujya Swamiji leads group in a pledge to care for Ganga, launching the A-Z Ganga Clean Up program, at the 2010 Interfaith Harmony Conference.

Live Webcast: 51st Anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day

Children

Children at a school in a small, lower caste village outside of Rishikesh, which IHRF has just recently adopted.

Escape into Exile

Gurukul

Pujya Swamiji and rishikumars from Parmarth's gurukul on the banks of Ganga.

Special Teachings Images

Gurukul

Aarti on the banks of Ganga with guests and participants from around the world

Larry King Interviews His Holiness

Encyclopedia of Hinduism

H.H. the Dalai Lama is presented with the first volume of the Encyclopedia of Hinduism, at a Special Preview and Blessing Ceremony.

Mansarovar

IHRF's ashram on the banks of Lake Mansarovar

Tsunami Relief

Foundation stone of the orphanage and other facilities constructed in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, by IHRF in the wake of the devastating tsunami.

Tsunami Relief

Houses in Pannithittu, Pondicherry constructed by IHRF in the wake of the devastating tsunami.

Latest News

From December 4-9, Pujya Swamiji was a speaker in the Parliament of World Religions, a huge inter-religious gathering of the top leaders of all the world’s religions. The first Parliament took place in Chicago in 1893 and it was there that Swami Vivekananda gave his famous speech, beginning with “My sisters and brothers of America.”

Download the October - December 2009 Newsletter

 

Projects

In this urgent and noble program, IHRF, with the cooperation of Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh pledges to clean up the holy banks of our Mother Ganga.

 

Calendar

Download 2010 Calendar by clicking image above

 
 

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