Pioneering Hinduism in Canada: The Life and Work of Swami Sivananda Radha
Though Hindus began to arrive in Canada during the first half of the twentieth century, the first Canadian-based Hindu organization was founded by Sylvia Hellman (1911-1995), a German immigrant who arrived in Canada in 1951. Based on a vision of Swami Sivananda Saraswati, she traveled to visit his a...
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Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies
2020
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | Though Hindus began to arrive in Canada during the first half of the twentieth century, the first Canadian-based Hindu organization was founded by Sylvia Hellman (1911-1995), a German immigrant who arrived in Canada in 1951. Based on a vision of Swami Sivananda Saraswati, she traveled to visit his ashram in Rishikish, India, where Sivananda recognized her talents and where she was ordained as a sannysin and commissioned to spread Sivananda’s yoga teachings in North America. Upon her return to Canada, now known as Swami Sivananda Radha, with few resources at her command, she developed what became known as the Yasodhara Ashram in rural British Columbia, and from the ashram, she trained students, wrote books, and developed additional centers in both the U.S. and Canada, and pioneered Hinduism in Canada all the while acting as a self-conscious female spiritual leader. |
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