Hinduism Today January 2010
November 5, 2009The next issue of Hinduism Today is almost ready to go to press next week. This is another beautiful issue full of fascinating stories. The main feature this issue is the tale of Bhutanese Hindus, from their ejection from Bhutan, decade long stay in refugee camps in Nepal, to their...
Monastery Twitter Updates for 2009-11-05
November 5, 2009Palaniswami shares a panel in Dec with BBC's main religion editor. We complained to BBC about the sadhu photo http://twitpic.com/obfq5 # Bodhinatha arrives back home safely. #bd-travels # Since we talked with their image editors, BBC is running positive Hindu imagery, like this Holi photo. http://twitpic.com/obg1n # Bodhinatha is back...
Satguru Bodhinatha visits devotees in Southern California
November 5, 2009Just arriving in San Diego, Satguru Bodhinatha, Sannyasin Shanmuganathaswami and Yogi Jivananda are greeted by devotees in the airport. Here Shanmuganathaswami is greeted by Gunamaya Sivananda for the first time. Beautiful Satguru giving photo darshan Diksha and Ushadevi Katir got the first photo because they had the camera.. Why don't...
Bodhinatha in Palo Alto
November 4, 2009As we write, Bodhinatha and Shanmuganathswami are in the air, flying home to arrive this evening. In the next few days we will bring more photos of events during their in California. See our Twitter posts for photos from the big donor appreciation event in Palo Alto, California. Here is...
Bodhinatha Goes to Southern California
November 4, 2009We continue our retrospective on Bodhinatha's mission as he moves to Southern California. There is much to celebrate when we are on the spiritual path, not the least of which is that we miraculously discovered the spiritual path in the first place. For those not yet connecting with the Tweets...
San Diego Devotees Prepare for Bodhinatha's Arrival
November 4, 2009In our retrospective on Bodhinatha's trip to California, We catch up with Bodhinatha as he moves to Southern California. The devotees had a small gathering than the one in Palo Alto, but being with the Satguru is always a big event, and the San Diego devotees are here preparing the...
Monastery Twitter Updates for 2009-11-04
November 4, 2009We visited Amit Tripathi in his apartment in Westwood, CA. Amit is studying Asian religions at UCLA. http://pic.gd/03c415 # Bodhinatha is just about to take off on his way back to Kauai. #bd-travels # Powered by Twitter Tools
Things to Celebrate
November 4, 2009Siva held His own celebration last night at sunset, filling the sky with an amazing and rarely seen display of vivacity. This iPhone photo was taken from the monastery courtyard as several monks gathered to silently witness it. Another miraculous sky event occured during our full moon retreat. Here...