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Swami Tyagananda
Born1956
Alma mater
Harvard

Swami Tyagananda is a

Harvard, and other colleges in and around Boston
.

Biography

He joined the

University of Bombay, India
. Swami Tyagananda has served in the following monasteries:

Swami Tyagananda was the

editor of the English language journal Vedanta Kesari based in Chennai, India
. 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]

University of Wisconsin, Madison, expressed the view that Swami Tyagananda’s criticisms in Kali's Child Revisited "indeed go to the heart of things".[7]
In 2010, Tyagananda co-authored the book
Interpreting Ramakrishna: Kali's Child Revisited with Pravrajika Vrajaprana which further discusses these issues.[8]

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

King James Bible is then read out loud, followed by the Sermon on the Mount and a homily on Jesus' life.[9] The 139th MIT Commencement ceremony in 2005 began with Swami Tyagananda's invocation in Sanskrit and English.[10]

Works

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Commencement invocation at MIT". 3 June 2005. Retrieved 17 July 2008.
  2. ^ "Harvard Chaplains". Retrieved 12 March 2014.
  3. ^ Ramaswamy, Krishnan; Antonio de Nicolas; et al. (2007). "Targeting Sri Ramakrishna". Invading the Sacred. Rupa & Co. p. 30.
  4. ^ Sharma, Arvind (Spring 2004). "Hindus and Scholars". Religion in the News. 7 (1). trincoll.edu. Retrieved 17 July 2008.
  5. ^ Tyagananda, Swami; Pravrajika Vrajaprana (2002). "Kali's Child Revisited or Didn't Anyone Check the Documentation". Evam: Forum on Indian Representations. 1 (1–2).
  6. ^ "EVAM - FORUM ON INDIAN REPRESENTATIONS ~ Issue 1". Archived from the original on 15 May 2006. Retrieved 20 August 2008.
  7. ^ See Journal : The Damage of Separation: Krishna's Loves and Kali's Child by Hawley J Am Acad Relig.2004; 72: 369-393
  8. ISBN 978-81-208-3499-6
    .
  9. ^ Finding a link between Jesus and Krishna, San Francisco Chronicle 24 December 2005
  10. ^ Swami Tyagananda leads MIT Commencement with invocations in Sanskrit and English, Rediff News

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