From the Bangalore carving site
September 2, 2013At the carving site in Bangalore, work is moving forward on the final batch of stone chains. As you can imagine, carving a chain from a single piece of stone is no easy task, but the carvers do it with incredible refinement and skill. Silpi Chellakannu is working on the...
Darshan
September 1, 2013Formal Master Course student Tejasinha Sivalingam had darshan with Satguru Bodhinatha this morning. He also fashioned a Sanskrit Aum out of rudraksha fruits, seen in next image. } ]; transitionSpeed:150});
Master Course student's first visit to Kauai
August 31, 2013Tejasinha Sivalingam is making his first visit to Kauai after having first obtained the trilogy of books about 15 years ago, and nowadays he's following our formal Master Course Supervised Study in southern California where he lives. photographing the rose granite model of Kauai island, not yet uncrated He was...
Twitter Update: Details of upcoming travels by Bodhinatha and the...
August 30, 2013Details of upcoming travels by Bodhinatha and the monks have been updated here: himalayanacademy.com/visit/meet-us-…
Media Studio Rock Work
August 30, 2013Over the last few days Holika and Paul have been working to complete the professional stone work which wraps around the building's main support columns. The stonework has had an instantly transformative effect on the space. Here is one of the finished pillars It takes an artistic touch in trying...
Marching Through Sri Lanka and South India
August 30, 2013The 1982 Indian Odyssey and the all-island tour of Sri Lanka that followed had no precedent in history. No one, not even S. Shanmuga sundaram, the liason officer for the Church in Sri Lanka who had done the groundwork for the journey, had an inkling of the overall magnitude of...
Los Angeles' "guerrilla gardener"
August 30, 2013A special tour was arranged for Mr. Ron Finley of Los Angeles, who garnered national attention when he gave a TED talk about his efforts to promote healthy eating and urban farming in south central Los Angeles. From Wikipedia-- " Finley is also known as a proponent of healthy eating...
Auspicious Homa Day Samaya Diksha for Sadhaka Jayanatha
August 29, 2013To began a bright new phase with homa. It was particularly auspicious as Sadhaka Jayanatha received Samaya Diksha... the Mantra initiation for the lifelong practice of Aum Namasivaya japa. Yoginathaswami is our homa pujari today Sadhaka Jayanatha joins the ceremony and does the sankalpam (statement of intent) The homa rite...