Himalayan Academy (Kauai's Hindu Monastery)

Himalayan Academy is the publishing and teaching organization of Kauai's Hindu Monastery, the Saiva Siddhanta lineage monastery on Hawaii's Garden Island founded by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami and carried today by his successor Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami. It is one of the most productive institutions in Hindu publishing, from the Master Course and its study program to Hinduism Today magazine.

Its teaching is structured for self-study: the Master Course with its daily lessons and study program, the Path to Siva youth curriculum, the Saivite Hindu Religion course, Sanskrit chanting guides, puja instruction, and even a Master Course chatbot for learners. The monastery's own practice pages teach meditation, puja worship and the tradition's calendar, including its Vedic astrology calculator and panchangam.

The monks publish a stream of new work (their blog posts daily), maintain a lexicon and font resources for Sanskrit and Tamil study, and run the monastery's global mission from Kauai. Himalayan Academy is the Western world's most established institutional voice of Saiva Siddhanta Hinduism. The institution's stated mission: To publish and teach the Saiva Siddhanta tradition worldwide.