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Teachers' Day at the Sri Subramuniya Kottam School

Recently, our Kottam school in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, celebrated the Teachers' Day. The celebrations began with a small pooja. The children garlanded the teachers and thanked them for their service. Also, the children gave speeches honoring their teachers, and read poems.

Monastery Twitter Updates for 2010-11-11

A couple more snaps from our Skanda Shashthi puja last night. http://twitpic.com/35wd4v http://twitpic.com/35wd4x # Bodhinatha and Palaniswami just departed on a 16-day trip to Malaysia, Singapore and India. http://twitpic.com/35wttf # Powered by Twitter Tools

Bodhinatha and Palaniswami Off to India-Asia

Bodhinatha and Palaniswami are here at the airport on their way to Singapore, Malaysia and India. The main focus of the journey is to accept an invitation from His Divine Grace ‘Dharmaratna' Swami Shri Gopal Sharan Devacharya Ji Maharaj for special events at his new center in New Delhi. Swami...

&nbspRecently government officials from Honolulu and other islands visited Kauai to inspect the Kalepa lands across the River from the Iraivan temple. The land is leased from the government. Administration is transitioning from oversight by the Department of Lands and Natural Resources to another government body: the Agriculture Development Corporation...

Express Your Gratitude for Our Free Online Resources

At the beginning of October we launched a three-month drive to support the costs of our websites and other digital media initiatives. Our various websites have helped guide contemporary Hinduism around the world, informing individuals, empowering institutions and clarifying Hinduism for academics, journalists and politicians. Though the work of the...

Monastery Twitter Updates for 2010-11-10

Happy Skanda Shashthi, everyone. Our final puja will be this evening. # Learn about Skanda Shashthi in our Hinduism Today festival "pager" here http://bit.ly/dqAGgq # Grateful for the free online resources from Kauai's Hindu Monastery? Join our Digital Dharma Drive - Donate Today! http://bit.ly/cVUpiZ # Our Skanda Shashthi puja is...

Skanda Shasti Day

Today is the Skanda Shashti and this evening we have our annual Muruga homa and abhishekam. Meanwhile the Ganapati Kulam report on their activities today. Palaniswami has been busy getting ready for his trip with Bodhinatha to India. Kumarswami has been working on our monthly monastery newsletter and other publishing...

Specimen Tree Initiative on Himalayan Acres

On the land across from Iraivan that we call "Himalayan Acres" or in Hawaiian, "Kalepa" the monks have entered into a collaborative agreement with a professional nurseryman, Scott Young, who will use some of the land to nurture his own collection of specimen trees, while training the monks and caring...