Place · planned township · India
Auroville
Founded in 1968 around a spherical Matrimandir, laid out as a galaxy plan. A twentieth-century attempt to build a mandala-city from scratch, which is exactly the design logic seen in older sacred towns.
Modern spiritual
- Function
- Authority & administration
- Tradition
- Integral Yoga tradition; UNESCO-endorsed foundation
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 12.006, 79.810
Connections (1)
- Institutional successionSri Aurobindo Ashram, Puducherry
Auroville was founded in 1968 by the Mother, Aurobindo's collaborator, on land a few kilometres from the ashram — laid out as a galaxy plan around the spherical Matrimandir, intended for fifty thousand people of no nationality. It is a twentieth-century attempt to build a mandala town from nothing, and its governance has been disputed between residents and the Indian state for most of its existence.
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