Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati

June 13 is the 110th birth anniversary of Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati, the 68th Peetathipathi (head) of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam (monastery) in Kanchipuram, near Chennai. He died in 1994, in his 100th year. He was, and is, very much revered here as a genuinely holy man. Here is an interesting article about how he was chosen as a boy to become Peetathipathi.

The Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam has its own website.

The Peetathipathi (The current incumbent is the 69th) is a direct spiritual descendent of Adi ('original') Sankaracharya (approx. 788 to 820 A.D.), founder of the advaita, 'non-dual', school of Hindu philosophy. Sankaracharya established four principal monasteries during his life-time, and himself presided over the one at Kanchipuram.