Twitter Update: Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami departs for three w...
April 2, 2013Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami departs for three weekends in Texas tomorrow. See his schedule here. himalayanacademy.com/visit/meet-us-…
A New Wall
April 1, 2013The monastery is having a new wall built to replace the old bamboo fence. The wall will be plastered and made to look like natural stone. This is the wall which aspiring young monastics sit by while begging entrance into the monastery. The potential monk meditates on the monastery and...
Solar Array Concrete Pour
March 31, 2013Recently the concrete footings for the solar panel array were formed up and made ready to be poured. Here the SK works hard to get all the concrete poured and finished. The forms are later removed and the footings made ready for the panel mounting hardware. It is estimated that...
Media Studio Renovation Progress
March 30, 2013Work moves forward on the Media Studio renovation. Here is the main space, now being closed in with framing for the walls. The ceiling is being prepared for the coffers that were made some months back from our own Kauai woods. There are 18 of them, and inside will be...
Darshan with Satguru Bodhinatha
March 30, 2013Ponnambalam Chandrasekaran family visited for first time from northern California. He met Gurudeva twice in at our temple in San Francisco and then when it moved to Concord. He says he helped performed padapuja to Gurudeva in S.F.. } ]; transitionSpeed:150});
Media Studio Renovation
March 29, 2013Sharing today a couple of images that show the design directions for the publication's building renovation. The first one shows some ventilation grates and windows, done in a kolam tribal motif. Followed by some screen shots of the interior from above, one showing the floor. These are images of the...
Task-forcers to Princeville
March 29, 2013Over the three-day retreat Sadasivanathaswami and Sadhaka Mayurnathan took the taskforcers on a tour of the Princeville Botanical Gardens. The owners and designers (Bill, Lucinda and Michael) took us through their amazing 8-acre paradise complete with trails and stream, bridges and many thousands of plants. Here and there Michael would...
Bringing the Three Worlds Together
March 29, 2013The temple is where the inseparable connection between this and the inner worlds is most easily felt. The Homa is a sacred ritual by which offerings are made to the inner worlds, establishing communication and one mindedness. At today's homa Jnanideva Cevvel took his Vratashishya vows after years of personal...