Re: scan: Vrindavan (lost charm goes to West Virginia) (hare krishna) (no architects) (MOO!)

I belive that Kimti Lal Sharma is involved with the building of this ashram in Florida.

http://www.kashi.org/

Would make an interesting paper to compare these ashrams using the same gaze of Baudrillard's "Simulcra" and Umberto Eco's "Travels in Hyper-reality"

Leon Morenas

Urban Designer/ Architect

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Subject: [in-enaction] scan: Vrindavan (lost charm goes to West Virginia) (hare krishna) (no architects) (MOO!)
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 02:54:59 +0530
>Hindus unite in West Virginia to celebrate life of important religious
>figure
>
>Today, the real Vrindavan has somewhat lost its charm. The river near
>where the lord performed playful acts has now drifted away and the woods
>have disappeared from the land. But a new Vrindavan has come up in the
>Appalachian Ridge of West Virginia, here in United States. Riding down
>the curves of the ridge and running through the tree capped roads, we
>reached the New Mathura Vrindavan temple.
>
>The surrounding bustled with the sacred chants of ?Hare Rama Hare Rama,
>Hare Krishana hare Krishna?
>....
>?This palace has not been designed by any specialist nor was any
>architect employed for this work. For devotees the spiritual master,
>though is not god but he is like god? we started building a house for
>our Guru (spiritual master), and gradually it took this beautiful shape
>that is why we call it, Labour of Love?, explains Vaani, a devotee at
>Mathura Vrindavan temple.
>
>cont'd...
>http://www.thesop.org/index.php?id=339
>
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