Saiva Siddhanta Church
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Śaiva 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, (born: Robert Walter Hansen) a traditional U.S. Hindu leader.[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 Kauai in Hawaii, is the headquarters of Śaiva Siddhanta Church.
The current head of the Church is Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami.
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- ^ Don Baker (31 May 2010). Asian religions in British Columbia. UBC Press. pp. 26–. ISBN 978-0-7748-1662-5. http://books.google.com/books?id=dgtgGhMUgIUC&pg=PA26. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
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