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When I visited the
Hindu Center of Charlotte on a Thursday morning during the summer
of 1998, housekeepers were loading up the trash after cleaning the temple,
and a temple organizer was handling some administrative tasks. She
greeted me and informed me that this temple had been without a priest for
about six months but that a new priest had arrived from India that week.
As we entered the main hall, the priest was sitting behind a railing at
the base of a platform which was divided into five sections. Each
section housed a different sculpted image of a deity, beginning with Ganesh
on the right side, then Shiva, Radha-Krishna in the middle, then Durga,
and Mahavir Jain on the left side. The temple organizer called the
priest over to speak with me briefly. He discussed elements of the
Hindu tradition briefly, including the influence of Jainism and Buddhism,
then he returned to his chanting. As we left, the priest locked the
temple and walked to a neighboring house, where I presume that he was living
(at least temporarily).
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4 March 1999