Dr. Thiagarajan Chanting in Iraivan Temple
June 12, 2009httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLIi9pix4LI
Potriyan Sivanathan Doing Great Sivathondu!
June 12, 2009Potriyan is hard at work in the Ganapati Kulam doing a huge job of scanning past issues for making PDF's that will be posted on the web.
Re-Gilding Gurudeva's Murthi
June 12, 2009Jill London (right) from Gilder's Studio guides three of our shishya in the re-gilding of Gurudeva's murthi. Today instead of rolls we are using small sheets The team: Kulapati Deva Rajan, Tandu Sivanathan, Kulamata Isani Alahan and Jill
Golden Body
June 12, 2009Press the play button (second button from the right) to watch our slideshow Or, walk through the photos one by one by clicking on their thumbnails It is not showing the photos? Try reloading the page We highly recommend the full screen version -- click on the last button to...
Golden Days
June 12, 2009Yesterday the team completed the gilding of the Rajagopuram stone. Here Deva Rajan deftly fills open areas that are called "retreats" in the trade. Did you know that all the gold ever taken from the Earth would make a cube 60 feet long, high and wide? Not all that much...
Happy Pilgrims
June 12, 2009Visiting Hindu guests.
Dr. Thiagarajan
June 11, 2009Dr. Thagarajan met with Bodhinatha yesterday afternoon and today he worked with Arumugaswami on the Hindu Snakes and Ladders game, translating each of the Sanskrit labels on a huge grid of squares. The original goal of the game was to attain moksha. Today he had his first chanting session with...
It's Sun 3 Morning on Kauai
June 11, 2009Aran Veylan from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is here on Task Force. This morning he was contemplating the many wonders of Siva's Garden of Life. His task: to plant this edible pandanus. Pandanus amaryllifolius is is known commonly as dal pandan and used widely in Southeast Asian cooking. They have...