| by Kimbo
| | Friday, 03 February 2012 |  Prior to Prof Samdhong Rinpoche's arrival, interviews were sought with two Tibetan exchange students Namgyal and Tsened, and Jungchup from Auroville. They were waiting at the entrance of the Tibetan Pavillion to see the rare photos of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, and his documented asylum into India and a talk delivered by Rinpoche. Each one spoke very sweetly of their experiences living in Auroville. Firstly, Namgyal covered the topic of the Mahayana discipline of meditation and, how to be a 'better man' for Tibet.
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| by Kimbo
| | Wednesday, 01 February 2012 |  On Saturday 28th January, 4.30 pm at the Tibetan Pavillion, Auroville was graced with a visit by Prof Samdhong Rinpoche. Rinpoche was greeted by children and guests who had arrived for the inauguration of a rare photo gallery documenting the 1959 departure of His Holiness the Dalai Lama from Tibet and arrival into India. There was a sense of nostalgia and appreciation to be present at such an auspicious event that dated decades back, during which His Holiness's asylum had been facilitated by the Government of India and, at their invitation.
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| by Miriam
| | Monday, 30 January 2012 |  Aurodhan Gallery at Pondicherry will present on Friday 3th of February an interesting "Pondicherry" exhibition of selection of fine art photographic images exclusively selected from the book launched at the same time. Sebastian shared with us some insights on the process of making the book, which is collaboration of photographic artistic view of life heritage of Pondicherry with written word of Pascal Bruckner, Akash Kapur and Amin Jaffer, all experts on their fields of exploration. "Pondicherry" is published in French and English.
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| by Sajju and Pratiksha
| | Friday, 20 May 2011 |  Pierre Villat , a civil engineer by profession but an explorer in mind condenses his feeling & experience about his careful systematic search in the archeological sites in Egypt. A guest in Auroville, he talks Exclusively with AurovilleRadio about the meaning of a beautiful life, Mother & how he has been shaped from his past which he considers as a kind of gift. Our imagination dream and reality's unfixed border & thirsts about Egypt gets more and more interesting from his observation. Enjoy !!! Read more
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| by Sajju and Pratiksha
| | Friday, 29 October 2010 |  On the occasion of Hu Hsu's centenary year and 101st Birth Anniversary, a group of young people from Auroville and the Ashram organised an exhibition of his paintings, which was generously hosted by the Pavilion of Tibetan Culture. On his birthday, friends and admirers gathered to share memories. One of Hu Hsu's poems was read out, traditional music played live and Chinese tea was served. Hu Hsu, the Chinese disciple of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo lived in the Ashram between 1951 and 1978. Mother described him as "a scholar who was at once an artist and a yogi". During his 27 years stay in the ashram he translated among other works, Sri Aurobindo's Life Divine, the Synthesis of Yoga and many more into Chinese including the Bhagavat Gita and the Upanishads. Read more
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| by Sam
| | Tuesday, 21 September 2010 |  The Sarasvati, the most sacred river of the Rig-Veda, disappeared in the post-Vedic era. The only major river to do so in North-west India, it was also the only one to be deified. In many ways, Sarasvati, the goddess of speech, knowledge and the arts, is the fountain-head of India’s classical civilization. But there is another side to the story, which began with the rediscovery of the river’s dry bed in the nineteenth century: later, archaeological explorations initiated by Marc Aurel Stein eventually unearthed hundreds of Harappan sites in the Sarasvati’s basin. As it turned out, the lost river has provided an unexpected bridge between the Vedic world and the Indus-Sarasvati civilization, calling for a fresh look at old models.
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| by Miriam
| | Wednesday, 21 April 2010 |  On 17th of April as last act of project “In the footsteps of the devadasi..” Rekha and Michael gave us an interesting lecture on how odisi was created in the 1950s and 60s using the inspiration of the temple sculpture and elements from the existing folk performing arts in Orissa. In the connection with exhibition in Gallery Square Circle at Kala Kendra which traces the genesis and flowering of dance as a ritual offering before the gods, the topic draw selected few, and it end up with vivid discussion about dancers, postures and energy, and how it all reflected on the architecture and sculptures at the certain point of time.
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| by Miriam
| | Friday, 09 April 2010 |  On Wednesday 7th in Gallery Square Circle was inaugurated interesting exhibition how classical Indian odissi dance was inspired by medieval Orissian temple architecture in Bhubaneswar, Konark and Puri. The flow of the exhibition leading us with its transparency from as early as 2nd century BC to contemporary odissi dance. Beautiful photos are accompanied by short but thorough text, and one, amazed over richness of the area would surely like to know more. Read more
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