Tag: SVBF Canada
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Dr Alakananda Nath: Cultural keeper of Sringeri Toronto
The Canadian Bazaar TORONTO: In multicultural Canada, Dr Alakananda Nath is the cultural keeper of the Sringeri Vidya Bharati Foundation as she, as an expert in Bharatanatyam, Carnatic music and Sanskrit literature, has taken upon herself the task of passing her skills on to the next generation. On the sixth anniversary of the inauguration of…
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Sringeri ambassadors in Toronto
The Canadian Bazaar ETOBICOKE: Devotees at the Sringeri temple here might have seen Ramakrishna Bhat guide them through rituals, puja and havan, but few know that this young priest is also a great scholar of Sanskrit. “I am a specialist in Advaita Vedanta, the Yajur Veda and puja vidhi (rituals) and it took me 10 years…
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How Dr Lucky Lakshmanan and friends brought Sringeri to Toronto
The Canadian Bazaar TORONTO: The Sringeri temple in Toronto is the only second such religious institution operating outside of India. The first Sringeri temple in the West opened at Stroudsburg in Pennsylvania in the US in early 1990s. Renowned Toronto scientist Dr V.I. `Lucky’ Lakshmanan, who is the current president of the Sringeri Vidya Bharati Foundation…
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How Canada’s first Sringeri temple came to Toronto
Sringeri Toronto temple was thrown open to devotees on June 20, 2010 The Canadian Bazaar TORONTO: June 20, 2010, was a historic day in the history of Canada’s Hindu community when the country’s first Sringeri temple opened in Toronto. On that day, thousands of devotees from Canada and the US thronged the 30,000 sq-ft temple…