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Vedika's Founder Receives International Award
Dr. P. H. Kulkarni honors Shunya Pratichi Mathur
with international award
At the 10th International Seminar on Evidence Based Ayurveda held in Pune in December 2010, Vedika's Founder & Acharya Smt. Shunya Pratichi Mathur was awarded the Padmavati Aai (Mother Padmavati) International Ayurveda Award for her outstanding work in founding and propagating the Gurukula system of education in CA, USA. The award was presented by. Dr. P. H. Kulkarni, the Founder and Editor in Chief Deerghayu International and Founder Director Institute of Indian Medicine. In presenting the award, he commended her on developing an education platform infused with the spirituality that is so central to classical Ayurveda, yet rarely given proper emphasis nowadays.
Dr. P. H. Kulkarni himself embodies a lifetime of accomplishments and untiring service to Ayurveda, as an international teacher, practitioner, promoter, researcher and author. He has been instrumental in founding Ayurveda centers in every continent. For four generations, his family has been devoted to Ayurveda, and this award in the name of his mother reflects his deep respect for the praiseworthy women who keep the flame of Ayurveda bright.
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Vedika teachers honor Dr. P. H. Kulkarni for his lifetime contributions to Ayurveda |
The Indian Institute of Medicine was founded by Dr. Kulkarni thirty years ago. As a recognized Ayurveda research institute, IIM has produced several PhD's and over 300 fellows of IIM (FIIM) who are working across the globe in the promotion of Ayurveda. IIM has organized 50 international and 60 domestic Ayurveda conferences till date, published 185 books on Ayurveda by various authors from India and abroad, and is successfully publishing “Deerghayu International” a quarterly journal for the last 28 years.
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