Shiva Subramuniyaswami ( born Shivaya Subramuniyaswami ; birth name is Robert Hansen ; born January 5, 1927 - November 12, 2001 ) is an American Shaivite guru , writer and preacher ; founder and first leader of the Shaiva Siddhanta community. Born and raised in California. At a young age, he traveled to India and Sri Lanka , where he adopted Shaivism , receiving initiation in 1949 from guru Yogaswami from Jaffna [1] . In the 1970s, he founded a Hindu monastery on the island of Kauai and the magazine Hinduism Today . Shiva Subramuniyaswami played a large role in the spread of Shaivism in the West [2] . He is the author of more than 30 books on Hinduism, yoga and meditation .
| Shiva Subramunaswami | |
|---|---|
| Shivaya subramuniyaswami | |
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| Birth name | Robert Hansen |
| Original name at birth | Robert hansen |
| Birth | January 5, 1927 Auckland (California) , USA |
| Death | November 12, 2001 ( 74) Kapaa , Hawaii , USA |
Notes
- ↑ Dr. Vimala Krishnapillai. Siva Yogaswami, the Sage and mystic of Sri Lanka (inaccessible link) . The Daily News (Thursday, 1 April 2004). Date of treatment June 2, 2010. Archived June 4, 2011.
- ↑ Klaus Klostermaier , one of the world's leading specialists on Hindu studies, said in his A Survey of Hinduism: “Sivaya Subramuniyaswami ... did much to propagate a kind of reformed Saivism through his books. As founder-editor of Hinduism Today, an illustrated monthly, he became the single-most advocate of Hinduism outside India. ”- A Survey of Hinduism, 3rd. edition, page 251