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The author of this book, Swami Tathagatananda, is a senior monk of the Ramakrishna Order, the Minister at the Vedanta Society of New York for several years. His earlier work, Journey of the Upanisads to the West, was very well-received by readers, because of the wealth of information it contained. This book, which is a collection of 12 articles written by the author and published in the journals of the Ramakrishna Order, can be viewed as a sequel to the earlier book. |
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The articles cover a wide range of topics, all of them dealing with the interaction between the ancient knowledge of India and the modern world, especially the western. The interest of the West in Indian Philosophy may be considered to have begun with the journey of the Upanishads, first translated by Dara Shikoh into Persian in 1656, which traveled to France in 1671 and later to Germany and then to the rest of the western world. The founding of the Asiatic Society of Bengal by Sir William Jones on January 15, 1784, followed by the first ever English translation of the Gita by Sir Charles Wilkins a few decades thereafter, rekindled the interest of western scholars in Indian Philosophy and Culture. There has been no looking back since then. |
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