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Oceanside Business Owner Helps Feed Poor Villages In South India
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“One family had a kid with cerebral palsy and another had two boys with down syndrome,” “(Balan) went into their kitchen and basically they (only) had water. That right there said ‘this is a problem.’
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Greenwich High grad forges his own path for work, life with religious statues
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Kyle Tortora was sure he’d end up a podiatrist. His dad was a podiatrist. His grandmother and grandfather were podiatrists. But then he saw his first organic chemistry test grade…
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O’side business owner donates rice bags to starving families in India
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After Kyle Tortora heard about how impoverished families in South India were struggling through the country’s COVID-19 lockdowns, he immediately started fundraising efforts to feed hungry families.
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Statue Co. Taps Tech And Artistic Sourcing to Reach Right Customers
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Its first year in business, Lotus Sculpture LLC, an Oceanside-based company that sells handcrafted Hindu and Buddhist statues directly from the artists who make them, had a revenue of….
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Meet Kyle Tortora of Lotus Sculpture in Oceanside, California
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So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there. I can trace the beginnings of Lotus Sculpture back to reading Herman Hesse’s Siddartha in middle school
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MivaCon 2013 Nominees for Best New Website of
2012
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Lotus Sculpture founder, Kyle Tortora, has long held a deep appreciation for the beauty and complexity of Eastern religious art. Through Lotus Sculpture, Kyle works …
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Lessons Learned:
Buddhist Search Inspires Lotus Sculpture
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In the novel Siddhartha, author Hermann Hesse describes the spiritual journey of a man who meets Gautama Buddha in ancient India…