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Urmila Devi Dasi (also known as Dr. Edith E. Best) (born in 1955 in New York City) is an American educator. Her father was president, and later CEO, of the Manischewitz food company, founded by his grandfather.〔Manischewitz: the matzo family: the making of an American Jewish icon By Laura Manischewitz Alpern〕 She joined the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in 1973 in Chicago〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Urmila.Me.Uk (An website maintained by admirers of HG Urmila Devi Dasi )〕 and became a disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the founder of ISKCON. She and Praytatosa, (Howard Best), married in 1973. They have two sons and one daughter; eight grandsons and five grand-daughters. In 1996 Urmila and Pratyatosa entered the renounced asrama of vanaprastha. Her primary work in ISKCON has been in the area of education.〔 In 1982 in Detroit, she and her husband, Pratyatosa, started an ISKCON primary school, where she served as principal for eight years.〔〔 She and her husband founded another primary and secondary school in North Carolina in 1990, where she was principal for ten years.〔 She taught children in nursery school, elementary (primary) and high school (secondary) for a total of 27 years. Urmila has compiled a guidebook for education in ISKCON and has been engaged in "writing and coordinating the development of a Krishna conscious academic curriculum for primary and secondary students".〔 For eight years she was the education columnist for ''Back to Godhead'' magazine, where she is an associate editor.〔 In 2008, Urmila wrote a paper based on Īśopaniṣad about the philosophy of education to be followed at Krishna Avanti Primary School in Harrow, England, the first state-funded Hindu school in Great Britain. Urmila has also been involved in the debates on women's place in ISKCON. Urmila Devi Dasi has a Master's of School Administration and a Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.〔 Urmila teaches some courses, such as ISKCON History, Sociology of Religion, and Educational Research, at Bhaktivedanta College in Radhadesh, Belgium.〔 According to Bhaktivedanta College website, she has been on US television, including NBC, explaining various aspects of the Hare Krishna movement and its philosophy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Urmila Dasi )〕 Urmila is also a member of the Sastric Advisory Council to the Governing Body Commission of ISKCON.〔 She travels widely throughout the world teaching about spiritual life and education. In September 2010,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Schools Pick Up New Krishna Conscious Children's Books )〕 she published her three-volume set ''Dr. Best Learn To Read'', a program consisting of a set of children's reading books, teacher guides, and student activity books to take a young child from learning the English alphabet to fluent reading. The reading books are all stories about Krishna or related to Vaisnava/Vedic culture.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dr. Best Learn To Read )〕 Aimed at ages 3–8, The Talking Books have the text in English and can be listened to in the following languages, page by page: English, Hindi, Gujarati, Telugu, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada, Mandarin, Thai, Japanese, Persian, Hebrew, Afrikaans, Croatian, Finnish, Portuguese, Italian, Slovenian, Slovak, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Hungarian, Dutch.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Full Contents )〕 She has also published a book on mantra meditation, The Great Mantra for Mystic Meditation, 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Great Mantra for Mystic Meditation: Opening the Lotus of Good Fortune )〕 == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Urmila Devi Dasi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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