Our logo is taken from a traditional design inlaid in mother-of-pearl on wooden trays used to carry offerings to the temple. The design is not just decorative: it is a mandala composed of permutations of the number eight. Wherever knowledge penetrates beneath the surface of life, eight can be seen as a causal form of the hidden power that structures the universe. Consider, for instance, the eight notes of the musical octave, the eightfold structure of DNA and the eight fundamental categories of existence identified by Vedic knowledge. Think too of ancient wisdom teachings: the Eightfold Noble Path of the Buddha, the Eight Limbs of Yoga and the Eight Trigrams of the I Ching. As our logo implies, these are all manifestations of the universal creative intelligence which, from the seed-point of the cosmic centre, radiates out through the eight directions to all infinity.