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Hindu Lexicon Reborn on Our New Site and Tied Into Books!

Hindu Lexicon Reborn on Our New Site and Tied Into Books!

We are happy to announce that we have completed the migration of the Hindu Lexicon over to our new web site. See: http://www.himalayanacademy.com/view/lexicon It took some time... because we ported all the data to a MySQL data base and we are presenting the information through a new modern web application...

Gurudeva in Bronze

Gurudeva in Bronze

Jai to Our Beloved Gurudeva! Photos from the foundry in Colorado. The life-size bronze masterpiece is finished and on its way to Kauai! And, yes, the rudraksha beads are bronze, not real! Truly a masterpiece! } ]; transitionSpeed:150});

More from Vancouver

More from Vancouver

Manickam Senthivel family is hosting Satguru Bodhinatha as usual. Manickam shared some information about our late Gurudeva's involvement:"When Gurudeva visited Vancouver in the year 2000, we met Gurudeva at the Airport and later at the hotel Gurudeva stayed for Blessings. At that time Sri Ganesh Maha Sapai was only 2...

First Visit to the Aadheenam

First Visit to the Aadheenam

Anil Badhwar is a Saiva Siddhanta Church sishya living in Norway. His niece Ingvild visited today for the first time with her husband David and friend Triana, who lives in north shore of Kauai and showed them around the island. They were amazed by Iraivan Temple } ]; transitionSpeed:150});

The Bangalore worksite hosts a guest swami

The Bangalore worksite hosts a guest swami

Recently, Somnath Swami visited the Bangalore worksite. He is one of the senior most monks of Sri Adichunchanagiri Mutt. Swami was overwhelmed with the work being done and inspected every corner of the worksite. Also visiting, was Dr. Kiran Goud, the principal of Sri Kalabairaveshwara Swami Ayurvedic College, an institution...

Stone Cutting in Bangalore

Stone Cutting in Bangalore

Our perimeter wall work continues in Bangalore. This phase of the work is significant being one of the only occurences of machine use in the carving. The difficult part will be carving about 500 running feet of decorative Chola design wall. This phase of construction should be faster as the...

A day at the Monastery

A day at the Monastery

A veriety of things take place around the monastery everyday, here are a few examples. Brahmanathaswami and Sivanadiyar Jaya are moving wood planks for use in the media studio renovation. Yoginathaswami is laying out the positions of the footings for the solar electrical panels in the field next to the...

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