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April 25, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? Shashikant and Kumud Sane visited this morning from Minnesota in the northern USA. Their community's under-construction temple was vandalized on April 5, and most of the granite murtis destroyed in the process. The temple had been slated to have it's kumbhabhishekam very soon. It...
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April 24, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? "Who doth know the luminosity of His Grace, That spreads its radiance everywhere? Who can fathom the grandeur of His gracious Feet?" --Tirumantram. 1798 After many months of planning, a couple of new Kawasaki utility trucks arrived yesterday, to be blessed in the traditional...
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April 23, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? This pilgrimage party has come to Kauai to bless the marriage of Luxman Sunder and Sharmila Rajan. The Rajan family are from Florida. Luxman and Sharmila met on their own, but as it turned out both families are from Jaffna, Sri Lanka and are...
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April 22, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? Here is Ashok Chowgule from Goa. Ashok is one of the vice-presidents of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad of India and has been in contact with Hinduism Today via e-mail for many years. He spent the morning with the monks and met with Bodhinatha for...
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April 19, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? Sun Five today, the last day of this phase. The Ganapati Kulam reported on their work. They are very focused on the closing of the next issue of Hinduism Today and many other side projects: work on the future "What is Hinduism" book; setting...
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April 18, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? Sun Four today. The Siddhidata Kulam gave a thorough report on the many things they are doing. As ever, work continues at the temple site, setting up the scaffolding for the silpis. Preparations have been underway for another stone lift tomorrow. The kulam is...
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April 17, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? Today is Ashram Sadhana Day for this month. All the monks are out cleaning. Here is Bodhinatha with one of our feline companions, named "Shanti." At lunch the Pillaiyar kulam shared their news and activities. We are happy to announce that the books that...
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April 16, 2006What Happened Today at the Monastery? Sun Two at the Aadheenam. Our Ekadanta Kulam gave their news. As always they are ever busy working on advance travel plans for Bodhinatha. We bring you today yet another series of photos from our retreat... a "repeat" of yesterday's TAKA" from a different...