Place · Krishnamurti centre · United States
Ojai, California
Also known as Ojai Valley
The small Californian valley town of Ojai in Ventura County, 90 kilometres northwest of Los Angeles — Jiddu Krishnamurti's principal international base from the 1920s to his death in 1986. Krishnamurti first visited Ojai in 1922 and had the formative mystical experience there under the pepper tree in August 1922 (the 'Process' that he described in letters to Lady Emily Lutyens). The 100-acre Krishnamurti Foundation of America campus at Ojai (established 1969) hosts the annual Oak Grove talks and the Krishnamurti Library and Archive. Krishnamurti gave annual talks at Ojai from 1924 to 1985. The Ojai Valley School, founded 1911, hosted him. Krishnamurti is buried at Ojai, with his ashes partly scattered at Rishi Valley and Brockwood Park. The Ojai valley became a global centre for post-Theosophical spiritual inquiry.
- Function
- Learning & scholarship
- Patron dynasty
- United States
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 34.448, -119.243
Connections (1)
- Life routeJiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti first visited Ojai, California in July 1922 at the invitation of the Theosophist A.P. Warrington. On 17 August 1922 under the pepper tree at Ojai, Krishnamurti had the formative mystical experience that he described in letters to Lady Emily Lutyens as 'the Process' — a continuing physical and spiritual transformation that would recur throughout his life. He later made Ojai his principal international base, visiting almost annually from 1924 to 1985 and establishing the Krishnamurti Foundation of America (1969) at the 100-acre Oak Grove campus. He gave his final talks there in 1985 and died at Ojai on 17 February 1986. His ashes were partly scattered at Ojai, Rishi Valley and Brockwood Park.
Sources
Standard reference; Krishnamurti Foundation America records.
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