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The current head of the Church is [[Satguru]] [[Bodhinatha Veylanswami]]. |
The current head of the Church is [[Satguru]] [[Bodhinatha Veylanswami]]. |
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Referring to the Iraivan Temple, [[New York Times]] reporter Michelle Kayal wrote:<ref name="Kayal">{{cite news|last=Kayal|first=Michele|title=Religion Journal; For Temple, 1,600 Tons, 8,000 Miles and 1,000 Years|work=The New York Times|page=5|date=7 February 2004|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/07/nyregion/religion-journal-for-temple-1600-tons-8000-miles-and-1000-years.html}}</ref> |
Referring to the Iraivan Temple, [[New York Times]] reporter Michelle Kayal wrote:<ref name="Kayal">{{cite news|last=Kayal|first=Michele|title=Religion Journal; For Temple, 1,600 Tons, 8,000 Miles and 1,000 Years|work=The New York Times|page=5|date=7 February 2004|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/07/nyregion/religion-journal-for-temple-1600-tons-8000-miles-and-1000-years.html}}</ref> |
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{{Quotation|This looks like India, but it is the Hawaiian island of Kauai, where members of the Saiva Siddhanta Church are erecting a white granite temple to the Hindu god Siva that fulfills the vision of their guru and is intended to last 1,000 years. For this act of devotion, every single piece of stone -- 1,600 tons in all -- is being pulled from the earth by hand in India and carved into intricately detailed blocks using nothing but hammer and iron chisel."}} |
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{{Quotation|Some critics question the temple's religious significance, saying Hinduism is a matter of birth and inheritance, not of spirituality. Saiva Siddhanta's founding guru and most of the monastery's monks are Westerners who adopted Hinduism. "It's sort of white people's Hinduism," said Lee Siegel, a professor of Indian religions at the University of Hawaii. "It doesn't say much about India or India and the Diaspora. It says something about people of my generation, George Harrison Hindus. Most Indians that I ask about the Hindu temple on Kauai say it's very nice. But in a real Brahminical sense, I don't think it can be taken seriously."}} |
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Saiva Siddhanta Church is a spiritual institution and identifies itself with the Śaivite Hindu religion. It is based on the precepts of the Nandinatha Sampradaya, and traces its origins to a two-thousand-year-old lineage of the Kailāsa Paramparā Gurus.
The Church was founded in 1949 by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, a Saiva Hindu guru from the United States.[1] The name of the Church is from the Sanskrit language and could be roughly rendered in English as "The Church of God Śiva's Revealed Truth."
Kauai Aadheenam, also known as Kauai's Hindu Monastery, located on the Garden Island of KauaiinHawaii, is the headquarters of Śaiva Siddhanta Church. The Church is currently constructing the Iraivan Temple on Kauai.
The current head of the Church is Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami.
Referring to the Iraivan Temple, New York Times reporter Michelle Kayal wrote:[2]
This looks like India, but it is the Hawaiian island of Kauai, where members of the Saiva Siddhanta Church are erecting a white granite temple to the Hindu god Siva that fulfills the vision of their guru and is intended to last 1,000 years. For this act of devotion, every single piece of stone -- 1,600 tons in all -- is being pulled from the earth by hand in India and carved into intricately detailed blocks using nothing but hammer and iron chisel."
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