Talk:Amarnath Temple

message: I've tagged this article, after coming across it and discovering its need for editing. Knowing virtually nothing about Hinduism, I've instead added it to the cleanup list in the Hinduism WikiProject.
-- Sasuke Sarutobi 13:53, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The very bottom of this is far from wikipedia standards:
We cannot malign this unique relationship between people as the dogma of Secularism, the one which politicians and governments in India follow. This is human relationship, co-existence, love for each other. This is above all religion. This is humanity!
I'm removing this paragraph:
The fact that is not known much is that the Amarnath is a symbol of Communal Harmony. It is a place where Hindus and Muslims come together and surrender themselves to the god, the nature. It is a fact that there are many Muslims in the region who worship the Ice-linga. It is also said that the first pooja of the year is offered by the Muslims. Apart from this, Muslims set up stalls on the way to the cave and provide free food, tents, water, liquids etc for the (Hindu) pilgrims. Muslims also support the pilgrims by carrying their luggage, providing horses and carrying dholis. Hindu pilgrims seek blessings of the Muslim-saints here. This is very unique in a country which is bleeding under communal tensions.
We Muslims don't worship idols. It is strictly forbidden by Islam. I didn't find any supporting evidence on such behaviour on Google. Whoever wrote that must have played a joke.
The fact is that Muslims in India do visit Hindu holy places, and the vice versa happens as well. Its natural to expect some overlap when you have multiple communities living together in a country. 
Maybe the actual worshipping is a little far-fetched, but the rest could be true. After all, money is the true currency of this world, and the Amarnath pilgrimage involves a huge number of people, enough to make it profitable for anyone to set up shop. 202.134.181.117 16:12, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you.  Until now, I only had a gut feeling that Hindus (and followers of all religions) were as bull headed as Christians.  Now I have evidence.  12.192.132.130 (talk) 17:12, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opinion 

message: The article doesn't say who is protesting what or why.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.125.2.18 (talk) 02:28, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: 2008 Protests

message: Hello. Ling literally means phallus. How can there NOT be any reference to this in the article? Even if it is just an explanation as to why this is not the interpretation (if this is the case), there should be SOME mention!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.46.212.51 (talk) 01:19, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ling doesn't mean Phallus 

message: It seems to me that providing some information on the reasons for the reported protests would be a high quality addition to this section and the article as a whole.   Pzavon (talk) 02:34, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  2008 Protests 

message: The article lacks NPOV in places and contains original opinions.  For instance, the sentence
:This latter legend might be alluding to the geological transformation of this region, when the massive sea in this part was compressed by the Indian geological plate to form the Himalayas.Bilham, Roger. The birth of the Himalaya. NOVA Online. Public Broadcasting System. 2000.
referring to the previous legend that
:a Hindu rishi, Kashyap drained the lake of Kashmir and found the cave along with the lingam in it. 
cannot be supported by evidence as it is chronologically impossible.  (The Himalaya uplift took place over tens of millions of years; the sea disappeared before humans existed.)
I removed this sentence, but the article should be checked by an objective editor. Zaslav (talk) 16:41, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV and originality 

message: i am planning to split the article..expecting responses to my decision.. 'cave' and 'land transfer controversy' are poles apart and the latter is an on going development that is of top most importance to india and kashmir .. will do the move in a day if no response is heard...Cityvalyu (talk) 13:00, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  split article of "amarnath land row" from "a.. cave" article 

message: The current version of the article claims both that there is "documentary proof" that 
:the cave was discovered by a Muslim shepherd of Batakot, Buta Malik, when he lost his flock and found that it had strayed into the sacred spot some 150 years ago, 
and that
: The exact manner of discovery of the cave is not known
Which of these contradictory claims can be verified in reliable sources?  Does anyone have a link to the "documentary proof"? Grover cleveland (talk) 03:45, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Contradiction

message: The section called "Organisers" mentions a Yatra Trust and the State Government.  However, the land transfer controversy talks of an organisation called Sri Amarnathji Shrine Board.  What is the relationship of this organisation to the other two?  Is it involved in the organisation of the yatras? 
I came here because I found a red link to SASB elsewhere.  I thought there must be a section here that could be used for a redirect, but there isn't any. Kautilya3 (talk) 19:16, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Government reached an agreement to transfer that forest land to the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board. Bladesmulti (talk) 02:06, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sri Amarnathji Shrine Board 

message: i take the previlage to edit a very balanced and informed article to include one specific controversy that even rocked central parliament and state assembly. it is very possible that , since now bjp forms govt in j and k , such decision be scrapped, and therefore a mention to this must be available. its unbiased, with govt sources mentioned alongwith india's widely read newspaper. its better if we discuss before , you take any decision of editing and possibly eliminating it. thankyou. waiting for your response.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nurmengrad (talk • contribs) 06:19, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: amarnath tax controversy

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Looking over the edits of July 12, I'm tempted to revert to 11 July as the last stable version. While editors have done some cleanup of these edits, the remaining problems are numerous (MOS, RS, OR, POV, apparent cultural BATTLE problems). Given the extent of the problems and that much of the content falls under discretionary sanctions. I started cleaning up the problems, but I think  this needs to be reverted outright. I'll look further to see what can be cleaned up piecemeal. --Ronz (talk) 01:30, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Edits of 12 July