The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (888 page)

G
hyakarmani
(home-based offerings or sacrifices)
:

see SACRIFICES (HINDUISM).

 
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G
hyas
tras
(rules governing home rituals)
:

see
S
TRA
.

 
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Griffiths, Bede
,

(1907–93).
Christian monk and leading figure in the development of reinforcing spiritual practice from Christian and Eastern religious roots. Griffiths said that he went to India to find the other half of his soul. In 1968, he became prior of the then failing Saccidananda Ashram (
rama
), putting into practice his vision of (as he entitled one of his books)
The Marriage of East and West
. He died revered in India though still suspect to some in the Vatican for an implicit syncretism—which in fact he always denied as a destruction of both traditions.

 
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(1863–1940).
Talmudic
scholar. As
dayyan
of Vilna, Grodzinski was one of the founders of the Orthodox Keneset Israel Organisation. He also organized the Va’ad ha-
Yeshivot
(council of the Yeshivot) for the support of Polish and Lithuanian yeshivot. The author of 3 vols. of
responsa
, he believed ‘the large and small yeshivot were the strongholds of Judaism’.