Swami Tyagananda
Swami Tyagananda | |
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Born | 1956 |
Alma mater | Harvard |
Swami Tyagananda is a
Biography
He joined the
- Mumbai 1976-1980
- Belur Math 1980-1982
- Ramakrishna Mission, Delhi 1982-1983
- Chennai 1983-1997
- Boston since 1998
Swami Tyagananda was the
. For eleven years. He has translated and edited ten books, including Monasticism: Ideals and Traditions (1991), Values: The Key to a Meaningful Life (1996) and The Essence of the Gita (2000).Swami Tyagananda also wrote the paper Kali’s Child Revisited or Didn’t Anyone Check the Documentation, in which he examines a list of what he calls "serious errors" that he had found in Jeffery Kripal's book, Kali's Child.[3] Copies of Kali's Child Revisited were distributed at the annual meeting of the AAR[4] and published in journal Evam.[5]
In a departure from earlier Hindu traditions, in compliance with the practice prevalent in almost all centers of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission, Swami Tyagananda also conducts a special service during
Works
- Walking the Walk: A Manual of Karma Yoga Chennai: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 2014.
- Interpreting Ramakrishna: Kali's Child Revisited. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2010. Co-authored with Pravrajika Vrajaprana.
- The Essence of the Gita (translator). Chennai: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 2000.
- A Study of the Mundaka Upanishad (ed and compiler). Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama, 2000.
- Healthy Mind, Healthy Body: New Thoughts on Health (ed). Chennai: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1997.
- Values: The Key to a Meaningful Life (ed). Chennai: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1996.
- Service: Its Ideal and Practice (ed). Chennai: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1993.
- Religion Today (ed). Chennai: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1992.
- Monasticism: Ideals and Traditions (ed). Chennai: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1991.
- Saints and Mystics (ed). Chennai: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1990.
- Holy Scriptures: A Symposium on the Great Scriptures of the World (ed). Chennai: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1989.
- Facets of Vivekananda (ed). Chennai: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1987.
Footnotes
- ^ "Commencement invocation at MIT". 3 June 2005. Retrieved 17 July 2008.
- ^ "Harvard Chaplains". Retrieved 12 March 2014.
- ^ Ramaswamy, Krishnan; Antonio de Nicolas; et al. (2007). "Targeting Sri Ramakrishna". Invading the Sacred. Rupa & Co. p. 30.
- ^ Sharma, Arvind (Spring 2004). "Hindus and Scholars". Religion in the News. 7 (1). trincoll.edu. Retrieved 17 July 2008.
- ^ Tyagananda, Swami; Pravrajika Vrajaprana (2002). "Kali's Child Revisited or Didn't Anyone Check the Documentation". Evam: Forum on Indian Representations. 1 (1–2).
- ^ "EVAM - FORUM ON INDIAN REPRESENTATIONS ~ Issue 1". Archived from the original on 15 May 2006. Retrieved 20 August 2008.
- ^ See Journal : The Damage of Separation: Krishna's Loves and Kali's Child by Hawley J Am Acad Relig.2004; 72: 369-393
- ISBN 978-81-208-3499-6.
- ^ Finding a link between Jesus and Krishna, San Francisco Chronicle 24 December 2005
- ^ Swami Tyagananda leads MIT Commencement with invocations in Sanskrit and English, Rediff News