Carving the Pothigai for Iraivan's Nandi Mandapam
March 9, 2011Photos from the Bangalore Carving site with captions by Jiva Rajasankara. Note the beginning of two flowers at the top of this pothigai stone. The main relief is all we see. Shows the flower design has been drawn by red oxide,ready to be carved. Both the flowers have been carved....
Kauai Aadheenam Digitizes Rare Collection of Saiva Scriptures at the French Institute of Pondicherry
March 9, 2011Kauai Aadheenam's interest in the Saiva Agamas dates back decades to Gurudeva's insistence that they be identified and made available for study and use. These ancient texts are the key scriptures defining the Saiva denomination of Hinduism. The Agamas are the authoritative texts on temple construction and worship. But they...
Gurudeva's Guru Jayanthi in Sri Lanka
March 9, 2011Sri Subramuniya Kottam children celebrated Guru Jayanthi on the 5th of January. This year was a special occasion as two of Rishi Thondanathan's students Sai and Ram Sivbalan came from California and spent two weeks with the Kottam children. Ram Sivabalan, 14 years old, performed the pada puja. After the...
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Sun Four
March 8, 2011[Photo: Bodhinatha in Mahabalipuram on earlier Innersearch] The Ganapati Kulam gave their news today. Paramacharya Palaniswami has been working on the picture for the Parampara book, which will most be all in the back in pictorial section. He also continues sourcing images and doing graphical design for Bodhinatha's education Keynote...
Refurbishing Iraivan's Two-Trucked Elephant
March 8, 2011As Iraivan rests quietly awaiting the next contingent of stones and silpis, our SK team is refurbishing it's Two-Trucked Elephant: the Yale forklift. This machine is a key component for the building of iraivan, moving all the stones from the container to or near their destination in the temple. All...
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Gurudeva Bronze In Progress
March 8, 2011Yesterday, March 7, was a magical day, the 36th anniversary of Gurudeva's vision of Lord Siva, the visions that became the spiritual seed for Iraivan Temple, that brought together a worldwide community of temple builders to manifest a remarkable sanctuary. Gurudeva instructed the monks to create a bronze memorial that...