Authors
Venkataraman Raghavan
Venkataraman Raghavan (1908-1979) was a Sanskrit scholar, a musicologist, and a composer specializing in Carnatic music. He was the secretary of the Music Academy, Madras, from 1944 until his death in 1979. He wrote several books on music and on aesthetics in Sanskrit literature. Dr. Raghavan has been called “one of the foremost scholars and enlightened custodians of Indian culture in general, and Sanskrit literature in particular,” and he is held in high renown for his efforts in preserving traditional Indian culture.
Dr. V. Raghavan is the author of the forthcoming World Wisdom title The Power of the Sacred Name as well as the forewrod to Language of the Self, by Frithjof Schuon.Read More
Kathleen Raine
Kathleen Raine (1908-2003) was an internationally recognized English poet, critic, and scholar specializing in the poets William Blake and W. B. Yeats. She was the founder of the Temenos Academy, an organization that advocates the primacy of the Imagination and which promulgates a traditional view of the arts and crafts in Britain. In addition to her many seminal works on the Romantic poet William Blake (such as Blake and Antiquity, 1979; Golgonooza, City of the Imagination: Last Studies in William Blake, 1991; Blake and Tradition, 2002), other of her more representative publications include Defending Ancient Springs (1985) and Yeats the Initiate (1986).
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Mudumbai Ramachandran
Mudumbaï Ramachandran was a Hindu devotee and philanthropist who had an association of over 40 years with Frithjof Schuon and other leading Perennialists. Ramachandran was a disciple of the Order of Sri Ramakrishna and knew most of the great contemporary spiritual masters of India. He acted for many years as the liaison between Frithjof Schuon and HH the 68th Jagadguru of Kanchi, Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati. Mr. Ramachandran also contributed a piece, “Frihjof Schuon: A small Word of Homage and Celebration,” to the edition of the Traditionalist journal Sophia which was dedicated to Schuon.
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Shri Ramakrishna
Shri Ramakrishna (1836-1886) was a famous Hindu saint of the late nineteenth century. He was renowned for his own detachment from material life, his dedication to Kali, his generosity towards his many disciples and students, and his many simple but profound spiritual teachings; Shri Ramakrishna’s greatest renown, however, may be related to his unique facility to understand at a deeply personal level numerous spiritual paths beyond his own practice of Hinduism (e.g. a variety of Hindu paths, Buddhism, Chrisitianity, Islam, etc.). The remarkable story of his life and teachings is the subject of the book (World Wisdom, 2011), a new edition of a classic book on this great Hindu spiritual figure.
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Swami Ramdas
Sri Swami “Papa” Ramdas was born Vittal Rao in the Kerala State of India in 1884. For relief from his outer circumstances, he began to chant “Ram,” a name of God, which brought him great mental peace and joy. In 1931, after years of living on the road in faith, his devotees established Anandashram for him in Kanhangad, Kerala, where he lived with Mother Krishnabai, who also attained the universal vision of God. They worked to improve the living conditions of the local people, founding a school for the children, establishing a free medical clinic, and setting up a cooperative for weavers. Together, they did extensive tours in India, and a world tour in 1954-55, with the purpose of sharing a message of Universal Love and Service, Sri Swami Ramdas died in 1963. He is the subject of The Essential Swami Ramdas .
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Samdhong Rinpoche
Samdhong Rinpoche is the fifth reincarnation of that title in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. He holds a Doctorate in Buddhist sciences from the University of Drepung in Tibet. In 1959, Rinpoche fled to India along with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. In India he served as a teacher to monks in exile and was appointed director of the Central Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies. On July 29, 2001, Rinpoche was named Kalon Tripa, or Prime Minister of the Tibetan Exile Government, the first political leader to be directly elected by the people in exile. The World Wisdom book Samdhong Rinpoche Uncompromising Truth for a Compromised World: Tibetan Buddhism and Today’s World is a unique series of in-depth dialogues with him and which covers a broad range of topics, including how the world came to follow a destructive path of unprincipled pragmatism and compromise, and what we can do to remedy it.
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Donovan Roebert
Donovan Roebert is the founder and coordinator of the South African Friends of Tibet. Born in East London, South Africa, he is a painter whose works are sold internationally. A devoted practitioner of Mahayana Buddhism for over a decade, he has also written several religious and philosophical articles on reconciling new physics and the neurosciences with the subjective human religious experience. He lives in Broederstroom, South Africa. He is the editor of Samdhong Rinpoche Uncompromising Truth for a Compromised World: Tibetan Buddhism and Today’s World.
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Vincent Rossi
Vincent Rossi is Director of Education for the American Exarchate of the Jerusalem Patriarchate of the Orthodox Church. He also serves as the U.S. Director of the U.K.-centered Religious Education and Environment Programme. Author of two books and nearly a hundred articles on theology, spirituality, and the environment, he was the founder and for twelve years the editor of the journal Epiphany. World Wisdom has published his article “Presence, Participation, Performance: The Remembrance of God in the Early Hesychast Fathers” presented at the “Paths to the Heart” Conference held at the University of South Carolina on October. This article appeared in Paths to the Heart .
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Theodore Roszak
Theodore Roszak is a philosopher, social commentator, novelist and teacher who held positions at Stanford, San Francisco State and California State Universities. He is currently Professor of History and Director of the Ecopsychology Institute at California State University, Hayward. Among his many well-known works are The Making of a Counter Culture (1969), Where the Wasteland Ends (1972), The Cult of Information (1994) and Ecopsychology (1995).Roszak’s article “Descartes’ Angel” can be found in the World Wisdom book, The Betrayal of Tradition , edited by Harry Oldmeadow.
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Soga Ryojin
Soga Ryojin (1875-1971) was Professor at Otani University in Kyoto, Japan, and was a major Shin thinker of the twentieth century. Ryojin had been a student of Kiyozawa Manshi. Soga Ryojin contributed the essay “The Significance of Dharmakara Bodhisattva as Earthly Savior” to Living in Amida’s Universal Vow, edited by Alfred Bloom.
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