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Occurrences of anti-Hindu acts have been reported in Los
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who took over the control of the
Vendantha centers from 1920 and stayed in the US permanently. In 1925 he instituted the Yogananda Satsang. The American headquarters of the Vedantha Society (one of the twelve) in USA is located in Los Angeles. There is a Vedantha Press in Hollywood which publishes
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California. During this period of his stay in Los Angeles, Vivekananda was gifted a large area of land by one of his devotees, which was a forested hilly terrain about 12 miles from Lick Observatory, an area of 160 acres, to build a retreat to house Vedanta students. He
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specific while over the years the temples have been built with a multi-religious focus within the same structure or as any annexe structure. The temples in Los
Angeles belong to both categories; the Malibu temple is devoted to Venkateshwara while many others are of the mixed type.
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of intuitive meditation which he labeled
Applied Psychology”. Thereafter, many Vedanta centers were founded in California under the stewardship of C.F. Patterson. To keep up with the pace of development he recalled
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Angeles. His main activity centered on yoga but interspersed with some teachings related sociology and theology with the “professed aim of communal and international brotherhood.”
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Hindu Temple, which claims to "promote the religious, social and cultural activities and the spiritual well-being of the Hindu community in the
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had her 4-month-old son blessed in a large ceremony by the Hindu priests of this temple. The event was covered worldwide by the media.
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and is fully functional. The priests of the temple live within its precincts. It caters to Southern California's Hindu population.
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