Do you
want to help someone become a teacher? KRIs Library
of Teachings Capital Campaign is accepting donations
toward a Reach Out–Teach Out scholarship for this
summer’s Foundations Level One Immersion program.
We want to
raise $3,950 toward an international student
scholarship—and you can help! Please donate today and
help manifest another Teacher to serve in the global
community.
The Yogi Bhajan Library of Teachings would like
to thank our friends and donors this year.
Thanks for your
help in keeping the legacy alive!
Akal Singh
Alejandrina Fernandez
Alfonso Rodriguez
Amrit Singh Khalsa, PhD
Anand Kaur Seitz
Angad Kaur, YogaSoul Center
Anne McHugh
Assia Valova
Atma Kaur Khalsa
Beant Singh and Sat Sat Nam Kaur Khalsa
Benjamin Bartlein
Bruce Jaffe
Christina Hildebrand
Christine Blythe
Daljeet Kaur
Devi Kaur Nedved
Deva Kaur and Singh Khalsa
Dharam Damama Kaur Khalsa
Dharm Kaur, Silver City Yoga
Ditta Kaur/Michiyo Kanno
Ernesto Garza
Filip Stoj
Guru Amrit Kaur/Paulina Lopez Portillo
Guru Ganesha Singh
Gurucharan Kaur Khalsa
Gurudhan Singh Khalsa
Gurukaram Kaur Khalsa
Gurusahay Singh Khalsa
Gurushabad Singh and Gurmukh Kaur, Golden Bridge
Hargopal Kaur Khalsa
Hari Mandir Kaur Khalsa
Himmat Kaur
Irene Brandon
Jai Kartar Kaur Davis
Jonathan Horowitz
Jai Hari Singh and Kaur Khalsa
Japa Kaur Khalsa
Jasdeep Kaur, Kundalini Yoga Glastonbury
Jiwan Shakti Kaur Khalsa
Jot Prakash Kaur
Karta Purkh Kaur
Kartar and Deva Khalsa, The Cleanse
Krishna Kaur
Lisa Barley
Lisa Goldmann
Lori Renn Parker
Louis and Sharon Nelson
Margarita H. Pothoulakis
Maria Kalinina
Marie Camille and John Lentsch
Martin Dorfmeister
Mehtab Singh and Guru Karam Kaur, Yoga Yoga
Michele Montgomery
Nirankar Kaur
Nirinjan Kaur
Nirvair Singh Khalsa
Patricia Montecinos
Patricia O’Gorman
Peter Laudert
Rachel Anselmo
Raj Parmar
Ram Das Kaur/Crystal D’Angora
Ram Das Kaur, Adi Shakti Yoga Centre, Ottawa
Raviinder Khalsa
Guruchander and Kirn Khalsa, Real World Enlightenment Foundation
Rosemary Wilson
Sanjam Singh and Kaur
Sant Kaur Khalsa
Santokh and Suraj Khalsa
Sat Avtar Kaur
Sat Nam Singh Khamba
Sat Nam Singh Vasilinda
Sat Purkh Kaur Khalsa
Sat Tara Singh Khalsa
Satsimran Kaur
Satwinder Kaur Sran
Seva Corp of Sikh Dharma, Los Angeles
Shakti Parwha Kaur Khalsa
Sharon Bajada
Simran Kaur/Katherine Friday
Siridatar and Sat Hari Khalsa
Sirisimran Khalsa
Siri Krishna Khalsa Family
Siri Ram Kaur Khalsa, Il Giardino Blu, Italy
Siri Sat Kaur/Catherine Liska
Sopurkh Kaur Khalsa
Soram Singh and Kulwant Kaur Khalsa
Subagh Kaur
Sunderta Kaur
Susan Groh
Tana Lyn Pittman
Tara Home
William Wortmann
"I Never Knew Him,
But He Knew Me"
Song Written and Performed by
Sat Purkh Kaur
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“You have to understand the
purpose of life. The purpose of
life is to do something which
will live forever.”
—Yogi Bhajan
Looking Toward 2012:
The KRI Capital Campaign
We at KRI are working to lay the cornerstone of
the living legacy that is The Yogi Bhajan
Library of Teachings—and you can help! As
teachers and practitioners of Kundalini Yoga and
students of Yogi Bhajan, you are a part of this
living legacy. With your help, we will make this
legacy a living reality.
Yogi Bhajan’s legacy includes over 8,000 classes
recorded during a span of 36 years. Our goal is
to make these teachings accessible through a
database of video, audio, and written
transcripts. Currently, streaming videos on
www.kriteachings.org and SikhNet as well as
broadcasts of his gurdwara lectures on the
JusPunjabi cable channel give us a small glimpse
of what is to come.
The goal and scope of The Library of Teachings
is to archive, preserve and create online access
to the entire recorded library of Yogi Bhajan's
Teachings by the end of 2012. Many of these
recordings are more than 30 years old and are
quickly degenerating—unless we act quickly!
How You Can Help
Our archival partners—Scene Savers (video) and
Mahern Audio Engineering (audio)—have completed
their Archival Pilot Project, which digitized
100 assets (video and audio) from the various
‘generations’ of media to project what we would
need to complete the entire archive. The Pilot
Project was completed in August of 2008. Here’s
what we learned:
Of the 100 assets in the
Pilot, only a small percentage needed
physical restoration—that’s good news!
Scene Savers (our video
archival partner) has adjusted the pricing
to better reflect our collection—so we’re
paying based on length of the actual asset,
rather than the averages used in the
original bid—which will save us money in the
long run—more good news!
Mahern Audio (our audio
archival partner) discovered that it will
require more time to process the files than
originally anticipated due to the quality of
the original cassettes and the length of the
recordings. We can now expect to pay $1 per
minute on average. This is still well below
the industry average for archival services
and includes not only digitization but also
signal processing—still good news!
Outputs will include Digital
Betacam, QuickTime DV Files, and DVD copies
of each video asset and 16-bit access files
and LTO 4 tape for the audio assets.
In order to meet our goal, our
current projections indicate that we need
$700,000 for this phase of the archive process.
More will be necessary to make it the living,
online, database we all envision. Our current
projections indicate that we would need another
$2.5 million to realize that dream and make it a
reality.
KRI is committed to funding this archival
project and we need your help. We are making a
long-term commitment to this project and we
invite you to do the same. With our online
donation program, you can become a friend of The
Yogi Bhajan Library of Teachings today!
Set-up a monthly donation:
Jupiter Level
$500/Month
Saturn
Level
$250/Month
Sun
Level
$108/Month
Moon Level
$81/Month
Mercury
Level
$54/Month
Venus
Level
$26/Month
Stars
Level
$11/Month
By donating through our subscription program, you help us make this living
legacy a reality. Each month your donation will contribute to one more precious
gem to be preserved and archived for the future generations.
Click Below to Enter a
one-time donation amount:
You will be taken to
a PayPal page where
you can enter your
donation amount
Donate via Postal Mail
Please send all checks or Money Orders to:
Library of Teachings P.O. Box 1819 Santa Cruz, NM 87567,
USA
If you have any questions about your donation please contact:
Contributions made via Mail are tax-deductible and should be made payable to
The Library of Teachings (LOT)
Our Vision: The Yogi
Bhajan Library of Teachings
As the keepers of Yogi Bhajan’s legacy, the
Kundalini Research Institute sees itself not
only as a wisdom-holder of this ancient
technology, but also as a resource for expanding
our knowledge and experience of the boundaries
of human consciousness.
Before our vision can become complete, we must
first fulfill our task as custodians—to preserve
and archive these sacred teachings for future
generations.
With 10 years invested in this project so far,
we have made great progress:
Transcription Project: In our
Bangalore, India office, KRI continues to
transcribe lectures. Over 6,000 lectures are
transcribed in either first or second form
to date. More than 2,000 are yet to be
transcribed. This project will be completed
in 2009.
Searchable Transcription Database: In
2008, we will continue the process of
identifying and tagging concepts from the
teachings within the text of his lectures,
to create a meaningful, searchable database.
Library Management System and the Digital
Asset Management System (DAM): KRI will
implement a Library Management System in
2008 and has a full-time Librarian on staff.
This is a first step toward a more
comprehensive DAM that will integrate the
audio, video, and transcription data assets
into a single, accessible, and user-friendly
online data management system.
Archival Preservation Project: The
pilot project for the archival preservation
of the video and audio library will be
completed by the end of 2008. Fundraising
for the completion of the archival
preservation of the video and audio begins
now. This is essential, as many tapes are
several decades old and are beginning to
deteriorate.
Correspondence Archive: Yogi Bhajan
counseled and taught many of his students
through his letters. We are continuing to
research and compile the teachings found in
these letters.
Photo Archiving Project: A recent
individual grant enables us to start the
project of archiving the thousands of
historic photos of Yogi Bhajan and the
people he touched in the spring/summer of
2008.
