Our Jagannatha Vallabha Vedic Research Center was first established in India, at Jagannatha Puri (Orissa) in 1995, and started its publication work in 1998.

It was founded by Mataji Parama Karuna Devi, with the encouragement of several friends and well-wishers who shared her interest for the Hindu Resurgence Movement both in India and abroad.

In 2004 we acquired a small property just outside the holy city of Jagannatha Puri, in Orissa, and gradually we built a large facility in which we developed an English medium school for the children of the surrounding villages, a traditional temple dedicated to Jagannatha and parsva devata, offices and guest rooms for visiting and residential students. The Center also had a vocational training center, a good library, a publication department and an Internet center.

The purpose was to facilitate communication, cooperation and friendship between our visiting students and the local people, to create a full immersion experience beyond prejudice and fears. Visiting students were encouraged and supported in directly experiencing traditional temple rituals, sadhana practices, and interviews with authentic teachers and local experts.

While the rural area of Piteipur and in general Puri and Orissa started to develop towards industrialization and commercial tourism, we collected the evidence of the old tradition, to keep it at least partially available for the future generations.

In May 2019 the cyclone Fani devastated Odisha causing serious damage to our project as well. We had no choice but to close our place in Puri, at least temporarily. The deities have been relocated and the social activities have been suspended for lack of funds. We do not know when such programs will be resumed, but we will post updates on our website.

In the meantime, our publications, courses, and academic work continue on the virtual platform, both in English and Italian language:

On Quora

https://www.quora.com/profile/Parama-Devi

On YouTube

https://youtube.com/@ricerchevedichejagannathav7600

We are working on this new website
(www.jagannatha-vallabha.org), but we will also keep the old ones (www.jagannathavallabha.com, www.jagannatha.net, etc) as a testimonial to the work we did in Puri.

We are now developing our organization in Europe and gathering new students and coworkers, through the use of suitable virtual technology to communicate, study and work together.

Our blog (xxx) will be refreshed and we will explore and develop our presence on other social media.

As we regroup and reorganize logistically and financially, we will produce more publications and multimedia presentations, and maybe we will materialize a new physical location for residential researchers and students.