Rajiv Mehrotra
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Born in the village of Trikkur Kerala on 15 December 1908 Swami Ranganathananda joined the Ramakrishna order the international spiritual and cultural movement founded by Swami Vivekananda. He was formally initiated into Sanyasa by Swami Shivananda one of the eminent disciples of Sri Ramakrishna and the second president of the order. Swami Ranganathananda was the 13th president of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna mission. He was an internationally acclaimed ...
There are an estimated 150,000 Tibetans in exile around the world, primarily in India, who have no country to call their own. Together, they have kept the issue of Tibet alive on the global agenda through non-violence and compassiona rare achievement in human history. For more than fifty years in exile, they have continued to maintain their identity in the face of assimilation, under the guidance of their spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
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Author’s interviews with twenty-five contemporary philosophical masters of different spiritual backgrounds predominantly Indic to quest for seeking philosophical concepts and spiritual life.
On Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, b. 1935; contributed articles.
The guru is our inner wisdom, our fundamental clarity of mind, as the Dalai Lama puts it. In The Mind of the Guru Rajiv Mehrotra brings together twenty contemporary sages and masters who have illumined this reality in their interaction with millions of followers. He elicits from them their deepest concerns and beliefs and the different ways in which they have helped people find a way to happiness. Ranged here are gurus as diverse as Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, who ...
Ocean of wisdom, his holiness the fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet is revered as a bodhisattva--a reincarnation of the Buddha--by six million followers around the world. He describes himself as a simple smiling monk. Between these extremes of divinity and being human, however, lies a personality fascinating in its own right: a theologian who can debate the intricacies of Buddhism, a philosopher whose thinking influences people around the world, a political and ...
His Holiness the Dalai Lama, one of the most eminent spiritual teachers of our times, reaches out across nations, religions and ideologies. An embodiment of the highest aspirations of the Buddhist path, his writings and ideas have had a powerful impact on millions of people worldwide, and to many he is a Buddha. Now, for the first time, this substantive selection offers the Dalai Lama’s most significant teachings and insights. The Essential Dalai Lama focuses ...
This book is a substantially revised, enlarged and updated edition of Double Take, edited by The Raqs Media Collective. The Open Frame Reader is an introductory collection of essays by filmmakers as well as non practitioners working on the agends of the documentary genre. It highlights the concerns and issues surrounding the creative and technological processes as well as the institutional frame work within which they operate. Through a wonderful miscellany of ...