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Ayurveda (आयुर्वेद; Āyurveda, "the knowledge for long life in Vedas"; or ayurvedic medicine is a Hindu system of traditional medicine native to India and a form of alternative medicine. The earliest literature on Indian medical practice appeared during the Vedic period in India, in Rigved.
Some other known written text are Suśruta Saṃhitā and the Charaka Saṃhitā, encyclopedias of medicine compiled from various sources from the mid-first millennium BCE to about 500 CE, and are among the foundational and formally compiled works of Ayurveda. Over the following centuries, ayurvedic practitioners developed a number of medicinal preparations and surgical procedures for the treatment of various ailments. Current practices derived (or reportedly derived) from Ayurvedic medicine are regarded as part of complementary and alternative medicine. (Full article...)
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- ... that in 2012, a three-day World Congress of Religions conference was organized by the Institute of World Religions to commemorate the 150th birthday of Swami Vivekananda?
- ... that Tao Porchon-Lynch, who studied under Sri Aurobindo and Indra Devi, has been recognized as the world's oldest yoga teacher at age 95?
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- May 2: 1921 – Birth of Satyajit Ray, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1992)
- May 3: 1913 – Raja Harishchandra the first full-length Indian feature film is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.
- May 4: 1649 – Birth of Chhatrasal, Indian warrior (d. 1731) from the Bundela Rajput clan, who fought against the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, and established his own kingdom in Bundelkhand, becoming the founder of Panna State
- May 5: 1479 – Birth of Guru Amar Das, Indian 3rd Sikh Guru (d. 1574)
- May 6: 1542 – Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.
- May 7: 1861 – Birth of Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
- May 8: 1916 – Birth of Chinmayananda Saraswati, Indian spiritual leader and educator (d. 1993)
- May 8: 1891 – Death of H.P. Blavatsky
- May 9: 1540 – Birth of Maharana Pratap
- May 10: Visaka Bochea Day (Buddhist)
- May 10: 1855 – Birth of Yukteswar Giri, Indian guru and educator (d. 1936)
- May 10: 1857 – Indian Rebellion of 1857 begins.
- May 11: 1895 – Birth of Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian-American philosopher and author (d. 1986)
- May 13, 2008. Jaipur bombings
- May 14: 1657 – Birth of Sambhaji, Indian emperor (d. 1689)
- May 18: 2012 – Death of Jai Gurudev, Indian religious leader (year of birth unconfirmable)
- May 20: 1894 – Birth of Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Indian guru and scholar (d. 1994)
- May 20: 1975-1979 Day of Remembrance (Cambodia)
- May 20, 2000: Bagber massacre of unarmed Bengali Hindu by NLFT militants
- May 21-22, 1996. 1996 Lajpat Nagar bombing and 1996 Dausa bombing
- May 28: 1883 – Birth of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian poet and politician (d. 1966)
- May 28: Martyrdom of 5th guru, Guru Arjan Dev Ji, he never bowed to tyrants and underwent 5 days of torture as ordered by Jahangir.
- May 30: 1963 – Buddhist crisis: A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination was held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open demonstration against President Ngô Đình Diệm.
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