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Bourdin is born in Martinique.
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Bourdin travels to Rishikesh and is influenced by an Indian Guru - Swami Sivananda Sarasvati. This marks the beginning of his spiritual journey where Bourdin would practice multiple religions.
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Bourdin travels to a department in France. He spends his winter within a cave teaching his first disciples about yoga.
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Bourdin founded the Association of the Knights of the Golden Lotus, which later became the Association of the Triumphant Vajra
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This holy City was founded about 50 kilometers northwest of Cannes, a city within the French Riviera
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Bourdin founded the Ashram of Mandarom, a spiritual hermitage/monastery in Indian religions.
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Gilbert Bourdin alongside 400 members found Aumism and reside within the "Holy City" of Mandarom.
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Between the timeframe of 1977 and 1990, Bourdin progressively created numerous temples. Not only this, but he created 20+ meter statues of Buddha Maitreya, "Cosmic Christ," etc.
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Bourdin was crowned as the "Cosmoplanetary Messiah" at a ceremony years after the original foundation of the Aumist Movement.
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Bourdin has died and his body was prohibited from being buried in Mandarom due to the French Government. His body was buried in another department, Grasse, but its mayor vetoed his buriel as well. Ultimately, he was buried in a small cemetery in Castellane.
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In June of 2000, the legitimacy of his building permit was challenged. Later on, a statue of himself was deemed illegal. A year later, itr was demolished by authorities on the 6th of September, 2001.