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Gorakhpur: The Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) Gorakhpur University is planning to start compulsory regular credit and certificate courses on the “Nath Sampraday [Nath sect]” for postgraduate students in subjects such as philosophy, tourism, yoga and Vedic studies, and cultural and religion studies, its Vice-Chancellor Rajesh Singh said on Monday.
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Gorakhpur: The Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) Gorakhpur University is planning to start compulsory regular credit and certificate courses on the “Nath Sampraday [Nath sect]” for postgraduate students in subjects such as philosophy, tourism, yoga and Vedic studies, and cultural and religion studies, its Vice-Chancellor Rajesh Singh said on Monday.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is from the Nath Sampraday, which is a Shaiva sub-tradition within Hinduism, and is the head priest of the Gorakhnath temple in Gorakhpur.
The university is planning to set up a “world-class” institute on the sect to spread its knowledge, and people’s awareness about it.
While the university’s Mahayogi Guru Gorakhnath Shodhpeeth (research centre) is already working on a detailed encyclopedia on the “Nath Panth [the Nath tradition]”, it will eventually be brought under the Mahayogi Guru Gorakshanath Global Institute for Cultural and Development Studies.
The university administration said a proposal on the matter had been approved by the concerned body, and Adityanath had asked them to go ahead with the initiative.
On Saturday, Rajesh Singh had presented his roadmap for the institute to the Chief Minister.
According to Singh, the university already has been allotted a Rs 37-crore budget by the state government for the research centre.
To develop the institute, around Rs 200 crore will be needed.
“We already have a research centre sanctioned by the government in November 2018 and are planning to make it bigger and proposing to make a multi-disciplinary world-class institution.