Hawaii Hindu Monastery draws Monks and Pilgrims

(21 Nov 2023) FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4464760 ASSOCIATED PRESS Kapaa, Hawaii - 10 July 2023 1. Drone view of the Iraivan Temple at the Kauai Hindu Monastery HEADLINE: Hawaiian Hindu monastery draws monks and pilgrims ++COVERED++ 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sannyasin Tillainathaswami, Monk at Kauai’s Hindu Temple: "As anyone who's been here before can tell you, there's kind of a power to this place that you only feel when you come here." ASSOCIATED PRESS Kapaa, Hawaii - 13 July 2023 3. Falling water 4. Paramacharya Sadasivanatha Palaniswami climbs rocks along the Wailua River ASSOCIATED PRESS Kapaa, Hawaii - 10 July 2023 ++PARTIALLY COVERED++ 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Sannyasin Tillainathaswami, Monk at Kauai’s Hindu Temple: "People describe it as a peace or kind of joy or a sort of a divine essence. And it seems to be generated not only by the nature here, the land, the location, the peaceful, beautiful island, but also by the temples and the monastic community here." ASSOCIATED PRESS Kapaa, Hawaii - 13 July 2023 6. Various of a statue of Lord Muruga, the Hindu god of war, son of Shiva and brother of Ganesha, in the middle of a meditation space ASSOCIATED PRESS Kapaa, Hawaii - 10 July 2023 7. Drone view of Iraivan temple 8. Drone view of the Rudraksha forest at Kauai Hindu Monastery 9. Pan of Rudraksha forest 10. Palaniswami chanting a Sanskrit verse 11. Drone view of the Rudraksha forest on the edge of the monastery ANNOTATION: In 1970 Kauai's Hindu Monastery was established on Hawaii's Garden Island. Monks who live here practice a form of Hinduism called Shaivism. ASSOCIATED PRESS Kapaa, Hawaii - 9 July 2023 12. A flower in Palaniswami's hair 13. Palaniswami driving a golf cart through the Kauai Hindu Monastery campus ANNOTATION: In March they completed the hand-chiseled Iraivan Temple which was envisioned by the monastery's founder 35 years ago. 14. The Wailua River 15. Palaniswami driving a golf cart through the Kauai Hindu Monastery campus ++PARTIALLY COVERED++ 16. SOUNDBITE (English) Paramacharya Sadasivanatha Palaniswami, Kauai's Hindu Monastery: "This is Iraivan Temple, and it's inside of a small monastery. We call it Kauai Aadheenam, or Kauai's Hindu monastery. And it's a traditional Aadheenam, which means a monastery which has connected to it a temple." 17. Palaniswami admiring the temple 18. Iriavan Temple 19. Priest walking through the temple ++COVERED++ 20. SOUNDBITE (English) Paramacharya Sadasivanatha Palaniswami, Kauai's Hindu Monastery: "We had challenges of finding the skills in India to do this work by hand, because one of the demands of our guru was that this temple should not be built with modern tools. But now it exists and it's like a pilgrimage place, the way we look at it, because there's not that many Hindus in this community." 21. Pan of Iraivan Temple 22. Priest walking through the temple 23. Mid pan of the temple 24. Pravinkumar Vasudeva, priest of Iraivan Temple, chanting 25. Wide of priest helping a pilgrim with chants in Iraivan Temple ++PARTIALLY COVERED++ 26. SOUNDBITE (Tamil) Pravinkumar Vasudeva, Temple Priest: "In India, you could build something like this, but it has not been done. Here it's nearly impossible to build it, but hit has been done, against all odds. This is an amazing thing." 27. Mid of Vasudeva chanting ASSOCIATED PRESS Kapaa, Hawaii - 13 July 2023 ++PARTIALLY COVERED++ 28. SOUNDBITE (English) Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, Kauai's Hindu Monastery: ASSOCIATED PRESS Kapaa, Hawaii - 10 July 2023 29. Monk woodworking at the monastery ASSOCIATED PRESS Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...