Bodhinatha is preparing for a very busy travel season. He leaves for Toronto on August 3rd, then flies across to Edmonton, Alberta on August 8th, then August 11 flies back across to New Jersey for the Dharma Conference and a meeting convened by the Hindu Encyclopedia team. Then later this year, trips to San Diego, New Delhi, Malaysia, Singapore and Mauritius…

Kulapati Jiva Rajasankara, our Iraivan carving site manager, has been with us now for nearly two weeks, having come over for Guru Purnima. After the festival he had a number of meetings pertaining to the carving of Iraivan Temple and tomorrow returns to India.

We really have to thank him, his wife Kanmani and their two sons Senthilathiban and Thuraisingam for all the hard work and dedication to keeping the temple carving moving along so well all these years.

Meanwhile another Kulapati, Easan Katir is off on a mission to Eastern USA… He sent this today:

“Ganesh puja inaugurating the 2005 Sri Venkateshwara Youth Camp at SR University in Pennsylvania. Kulapati Easan Katir will teach hatha yoga and Hindu Dharma to 105 campers this week.”

Jiva goes out to the temple this morning to take measurements to verify the future hand railing height…

Capstone of the next Chinna Gopuram awaiting it’s turn to go aloft

Jiva has himself probably handled every single stone of Iraivan at one time or another.

A look at the inner chamber of Iraivan…