{"id":7950,"date":"2009-06-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/06\/25\/gold-leafing-america-s-hindu-temples-2\/"},"modified":"2009-06-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T12:00:00","slug":"gold-leafing-america-s-hindu-temples-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/06\/25\/gold-leafing-america-s-hindu-temples-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Leafing America&#8217;s Hindu Temples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/himalayanacademy.com\/blog\/taka\/2009\/06\/26\/kadavul-temples-kodimaram-goes-gold\/\">himalayanacademy.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KAUAI, HI, USA, June 26, 2009: Tirumala&#8217;s Lord Venkateshwara Temple has recently announce plans to golf-plate much of its most sacred areas. It is a project of gigantic proportions, using 300kg of gold. But it is possible to make your temple look golden with much less than that&#8211;actually, at an affordable price.<\/p>\n<p>Kadavul temple, on the island of Kauai and just outside Hinduism Today&#8217;s offices, had its kodimaram gold-leafed today. Experts from The Gilder&#8217;s Studio (see teir website http:\/\/gilders.com\/ ) executed the work in less than two days, using modern techniques that will allow the gold to remain in place for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>HPI wants to open our readers to the possibility of gold-leafing in America, especially the kodimaram. Gold, according to the vastu shastras, is the metal most akin to high spirituality.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the source above for a beautiful slideshow of Kadavul Temple&#8217;s kodimaram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: himalayanacademy.com KAUAI, HI, USA, June 26, 2009: Tirumala&#8217;s Lord Venkateshwara Temple has recently announce plans to golf-plate much of,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}