
Oceanside Business Owner Helps Feed Poor Villages In South India

“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.’

Greenwich High grad forges his own path for work, life with religious statues

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…

O’side business owner donates rice bags to starving families in India

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.

Statue Co. Taps Tech And Artistic Sourcing to Reach Right Customers

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….

Meet Kyle Tortora of Lotus Sculpture in Oceanside, California

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

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 …

Lessons Learned:
Buddhist Search Inspires Lotus Sculpture

In the novel Siddhartha, author Hermann Hesse describes the spiritual journey of a man who meets Gautama Buddha in ancient India…