On January 30, 2015, the Chief Minister for the Northern Province of Sri Lanka, Hon. C. V. Wigneswaran visited the Sri Subramuniya Kottam in Kopay and had the darshan of Bodhinatha. Bodhinatha had breakfast with him.

Yesterday was the Siddhidatta Kulam's weekly garden day. The team of monks joined together to sprout seeds, plant beds, add compost and other nutrients to the soil, weed, mulch and harvest today's lunch. Thanks to an orderly system of maintenance the garden needs to be worked on by the whole kulam just once a week in order to go on producing all the vegetables we need.

A few days ago, Martin, his wife Alex, Dante and his wife Ashley all arrived on Kauai. Both Martin and Dante will be here for the next three months as they work on the next phase of the landscaping project around Iraivan temple. As many of you know, they have been tasked with designing the temple's surrounding gardens in such a way that they will feel just as sacred as the temple itself. At this point the team will begin moving the giant boulders that have been acquired. Each one will be carefully placed and will be the main points from which the rest of the garden will be formed, "like the first brush strokes of a painting," as Martin says.