Shri Ashtalakshmi Temple
Seaside shrine to the eight forms of Lakshmi, stacked over several levels in the shape of Om.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Shri Ashtalakshmi Temple in Besant Nagar, Chennai, follows a wish made by the head of the Kanchi monastery in the early nineteen seventies, and the scholar who set out to turn it into a temple on the beach. It touches on a sacred hymn written in the same city in the same years, and on why a shrine to eight goddesses was shaped the way it is. Best heard at the entrance, with the sound of the Bay of Bengal behind you.
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