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November 21, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Sun Three of a short 4 day phase. The Siddhidata kulam shared news of their work in the garden and on Iraivan Temple. The silpis are fitting roof beams carefully on the foundation of temple prior to them being raised up to the roof...
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November 20, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha giving his wonderful Sun One talk yesterday on a section from Merging with Siva. Don't miss it... It's on line today. High above the Wailua River with Mt. Waialeale off in the distance and the sacred Iraivan Temple visible in the background, a...
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November 19, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha usually has darshan with pilgrims the day of or the day before their departure. Here is Kulapati Balu Devado, Kulamata Parimala Balu and son Hiranyavaha "Hiranya" Balu and Hiranya served with the Siddhidata Kulam during their stay. It was a joy to have...
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November 15, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Today was the holy day of Skanda Shashti. We had a very powerful homa and puja in the temple this morning. The pictures tell the story, as does the video below (high bandwidth, 92 megabyte, 16 minutes) ~~~~~~~~~~~ END OF PHASE Today is the...
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November 14, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Rudi Tanzi and his wife Dora Kovac meet with Bodhinatha today before departing tomorrow. Archana and sister, Sarena Apte, and friends met with Bodhinatha today. Archana had been here last year with her family but her sister was not with them so she was...
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November 13, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha attended the Interfaith Roundtable of Kauai meeting today. Thought the group is small, participants are committed to holding high the flag of tolerance and interfaith harmony on our small island. It was tour day today... lots of visitors. The front of the temple...
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November 12, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Bodhinatha arrived home late this afternoon from California. Everyone goes to greet him Saravananathaswami was his traveling companion Sandee Cohen is here for some morning training sessions in our main publications' software, Adobe InDesign. Monks are learning the intricacies of XML and using Grep...
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November 11, 2007What Happened Today at the Monastery? Sun Two at the Aadheenam. Bodhinatha is still in California and will return tomorrow. More news after he returns. Many wonderful guests have visited the Temple during Gurudeva's Mahasamadhi Ceremonies and now the Skanda Shasthi festival. left to right: Annapur and Anusuya Sivakumar who...