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	Ananda Coomaraswamy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (22 August 1877 Colombo - 9 September 1947 Needham, Massachusetts) was the son of the famous Sri Lankan legislator and philosopher Sir Mutu Coomaraswamy and his English wife Elizabeth Beeby.
		Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy was described by Heinrich Zimmer as "That noble scholar upon whose shoulders we are still standing", was one of the world's greatest art historians and scholars of traditional iconography.
		Along with René Guénon, Julius Evola, and Frithjof Schuon, Coomaraswamy is regarded as one of the three founders of the Traditionalist School.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ananda_Coomaraswamy (771 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Coomaraswamy defines the chief characteristics of the modern world as "disorder, uncertainty, sentimentality and despair"; it is, he says, a "world of impoverished reality" in which we go on living as if life were an end in itself and had no meaning.
		Coomaraswamy defines the political alternatives of the modern world in these terms: "A democracy is a government of all by a majority of proletarians; a Soviet a government by a small group of proletarians; and a dictatorship a government by a single proletarian".
		Coomaraswamy insists that what seems to us irrational in the life of 'savages' and may be 'unpractical, since it renders them unfit to compete with our material force', represents the vestiges of a primordial state of metaphysical understanding.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2004/08/22/fea02.html (698 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ananda Coomaraswamy's father died while Ananda was very young and as a result young Coomaraswamy was brought up in England from where he ultimately graduated in geology from the University of London.
		In Ananda Coomaraswamy was harmoniously blended both Eastern and Western culture and whether he wrote on politics or poetry, on myths or on metaphysics he wrote with erudition.
		Ananda Coomaraswamy's writings have a vital message for men and nations everywhere who are interested to preserve their moral and cultural integrity.
	origin.dailynews.lk /2002/08/22/fea05.html (926 words)

	125th Birth Anniversary
		Ananda Coomaraswamy was born in Kollupitiya 126 years ago on 22nd August, 1877 to an English mother and a distinguished Hindu father, Sir Muttu Coomaraswamy who was the first Hindu to be called to the English Bar.
		Ananda Coomaraswamy is very much alive today as he was in the past and his spirit continues to speak to all those who believe that their future rests on the preservation of the individual regardless of race, religion, nationality or social status.
		Ananda Coomaraswamy, with the freshness of his thoughts and the warm sympathy for his less fortunate countrymen, flung himself to the society for a long and dedicated service.
	www.rootsweb.com /~lkawgw/anandac.htm (1781 words)

	One Hundred Tamils - Ananda K Coomaraswamy
		Ananda, after a brilliant career at Wycliffe and London University was appointed Director of the Minerological Survey of Ceylon when he was just 26 years of age.
		Thus Coomaraswamy’s approach to nationalism combined the patriotic spirit of Mazzini, the intellectual freedom of Emerson, and the aesthetic insight of Anandavardhana.
		Coomaraswamy has argued in his "Hindu View of Art" that the fusion of religious ecstasy and artistic experience is not an exclusively Hindu view; it has been expounded by many others - such as the neoplatonists, Hsieh Ho, Goethe, Blake, Schopenhauer, or Schiller and also restated by Croce.
	www.tamilnation.org /hundredtamils/coomaraswamy.htm (1215 words)

	WWW Virtual Library: Ananda Coomaraswamy
		Ananda Coomaraswamy has been described as a prophet of a new age, a kala-yogi (fine arts yoga exemplar), philosopher and theologian.
		Ananda was taken to live in England by his mother in 1879 when he was two years old as at this time her health was poor.
		Ananda moved to Boston in 1917 and became the curator-creator of the Indian collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, a position he continued in until his death in 1947.
	www.lankalibrary.com /cul/ananda.htm (3452 words)

	The Primordial Tradition: A Tribute to Ananda Coomaraswamy
		Coomaraswamy has long been presented, both in India and in Lanka, as a patriot, a famous indologist and art historian, an eminent scholar and orientalist; it would be as well to examine the validity of these widely-held beliefs about a man who was undoubtedly one of the greatest figures of our time.
		Coomaraswamy's theme is the unchanging Primordial and Universal Tradition which, as he shows, was the source from which all the true religions of the present as well as the past came forth, and likewise the forms of all those societies which were molded by religion.
		Coomaraswamy never tired of demonstrating that the traditional view of life and of art was always the universal and normal view until the Greeks of the so-called classical period first introduced a view of life and of art fundamentally at variance with the hitherto accepted view.
	kataragama.org /research/primordial_tradition.htm (1021 words)

	Frithjof Schuon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Along with René Guénon and Ananda Coomaraswamy, Schuon is regarded as one of the three founders of the Traditionalist School.
		The Harvard orientalist Ananda Coomaraswamy and the Swiss art historian Titus Burckhardt also became prominent advocates of this point of view.
		Whereas both René Guénon and Ananda Coomaraswamy had almost exclusively a purely intellectual influence, Schuon was not only a genuine metaphysician but also a spiritual master.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frithjof_Schuon (1147 words)

	Buddha Image - Ananda K. Coomaraswamy’s The Origin of the Buddha Image; Fons Vitae books / The Ananda Kentish ...
		Coomaraswamy rarely set aside a published work once and for all; using his publications as an ongoing journal, he continued thinking and recognizing new connections.
		Coomaraswamy is assuredly a patriarch, and for all who acknowledge the grandeur of traditional religious art, he is much more than a precursor.
		Ananda Coomaraswamy is best known as one of the twentieth century's most erudite and percipient scholars of the sacred arts and crafts of both East and West.
	www.fonsvitae.com /buddha-image.html (1805 words)

	Desicritics.org: Ananda Coomaraswamy: An Underexposed Prolific Indian
		Ananda Coomaraswamy is one of the little-known figures of India.
		Coomaraswamy was also one of the first to recognize and condemn the far-reaching disastrous consequences of Macaulayite education system.
		Ananda Coomaraswamy understood the pulse of Indian spirituality, traditions and way of life, saw and sought greatness in them, and shared them with the world.
	desicritics.org /2006/04/25/115515.php (2669 words)

	Ananda Coomaraswamy And His Heresy of Neo-Paganism
		Ananda Coomaraswamy, the Ceylonese scholar and the Swiss Mystic Frithjof Schuon.
		Ananda Coomaraswamy was educated at the Wycliffe College and then at the University of London, from which he graduated in geology (or mineralogy and botany?), in 1901.
		By this, we must necessarily understand that between 1917, when Coomaraswamy settled in the U.S., and 1947, when he died, he was considered an outlaw with a prize on his head, and therefore liable to be seized, by the British and that therefore he never set foot in British territory during this time.
	www.geocities.com /prakashjm45/coomaraswamy.neopaganism.html (4755 words)

	SPECIAL STORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ananda's wanderings in India in the first decade of the 20th century brought him in touch with the nationalists and intellectuals, especially the Tagores in Bengal.
		In India, Coomaraswamy found throughout the length and breadth of the country, the potters and weavers, the iron smiths and goldsmiths, the basket makers and mat-weavers, while preserving their traditions and norms were in dire economic distress.
		Ananda Coomaraswamy clearly saw the political storm created by the Swadeshi movement that was affecting India during the period from 1905 to 1914.
	newstodaynet.com /26oct/ss1.htm (1245 words)

	Collected works of Dr. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy - Dr. L M Gujral
		While one part of the series concentrates on works of eminent scholars who have dealt with the fundamental concepts, identified perennial sources and created bridges of communication by juxtaposing diverse traditions; the other part deals with revision and re-arranged editions and translations of a select number of eminent authors and their works.
		The most important part of this programme is to bring out the Collected Works of Dr. Ananda Coomaraswamy, reorganised thematically and with the author's authentic revisions, edited by eminent scholars, in about 30 volumes.
		Coomaraswamy's publications comprise many voluminous books, and a very large range of pamphlets, articles, critical reviews, translations and letters published in different countries.
	www.ignca.nic.in /nl001601.htm (1038 words)

	Ananda Coomaraswamy
		Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy who was born in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and grew up in England, taught the West the way to approach and understand the arts of India.
		Ananda Coomaraswamy looked up from the book he was reading and said: 'we cannot talk in the library.
		Ananda Coomaraswamy went on a tour of Europe and some of the countries of the East with his wife Ratna Devi.
	www.adwaitha-hermitage.net /rishikul/coomaraswamy.html (3347 words)

	World Wisdom Books - Author Details
		Born in 1877 in Ceylon, Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy was a multi-talented researcher, scientist, linguist, expert on culture and art, philosopher, museum curator, and author.
		He was the first well-known author of the modern era to expound the importance of traditional arts, culture, and thought as more than simply relics of a bygone past—in all that he wrote, he pointed to their critical role in restoring to modern man his true intellectual and spiritual birthright.
		Coomaraswamy has often been credited with reintroducing the concept of the "Perennial Philosophy" to a West dazed by the endless multiplicity of the modern world.
	www.worldwisdom.com /Public/Authors/Detail.asp?AuthorID=37&WhatType=1 (172 words)

	Introduction -
		Ananda K. Coomaraswamy who was born in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and grew up in England, taught the West the way to approach and understand the arts of India.
		It is an intriguing name, the unfamiliar 'Kentish' nestling between the familiar 'Ananda' and 'Coomaraswamy'.
		Doctor Ananda Coomaraswamy was an unusual man, an extraordinary man. He was a hermit as well as a householder, or perhaps he was neither.
	freeindia.org /biographies/greatpersonalities/ananda (122 words)

	Relevance of Ananda Coomaraswamy in the 21st Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ananda was their only child and he was born in Lanka on 22
		Ananda Coomaraswamy uses this traditional knowledge to impart to us westernized Orientals a new insight into the present political and social problems, which are of most concern to us: autonomy, human rights, and social integration of disparate groups.
		According to Coomaraswamy, the opposite of all of this social disintegration the path to reintegration can only be founded on the common identity of interests of all our communities.
	kataragama.org /centers/akc_oration99.htm (4419 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Ananda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ananda Whatever you're looking for you can get it on eBay.
		Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish COOMARASWAMY, ANANDA KENTISH [Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish], 1877-1947, art historian, b.
		A member of the Chakri dynasty, he was at school in Switzerland when his brother, King Ananda Mahidol, died (1946) under mysterious circumstances.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Ananda (391 words)

	Religioscope - Traditionalism - Legenhausen
		Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy was born in Ceylon, raised in England at his mother’s home after the death of his Tamil father when he was two, and studied at London University where he was awarded a doctorate in geology.
		Guénon, Coomaraswamy and other traditionalists are to be credited with seeing through the illusions of modernism at a time when its allure was at a peak.
		For Blavatsky, Olcott, Guénon and Coomaraswamy, the problems of modernity arise from neglect of the perennial wisdom found in the esoteric teachings of the great religions, although it must be admitted that Guénon and Coomaraswamy went way beyond what was implicit in the writings of the Theosophists.
	www.religioscope.com /info/doc/esotrad/legenhausen.htm (9061 words)

	Yaksas - Essays in the Water Cosmology
		Subsequently, Ananda Coomaraswamy re-thought his topic and collected a great deal of iconographic and literary material that permitted him to reconstitute a pre-Vedic cosmology with which the Yaksas, whole series of pre-and non-Vedic divinities, were intimately associated.
		Coomaraswamy did not restrict himself to the Indian literature on water cosmology but drew attention to many ancient cultures, e.g., those of Egypt and Iran.
		ANANDA K.COOMARASWAMY, a reputed scholar on Indian Art and Culture was a man of prodigious learning, equally at home in vedic, classical, mediaeval, European and Islamic literature.
	www.ignca.nic.in /ks_17.htm (298 words)

	ANANDAkCOOMARASWAMY
		His mother left with him for England when he was only two, and his father, Sir Mutu Coomaraswamy, a barrister and legislative council member, unexpectedly passed away on the eve of joining his son in England on 4 May 1879.
		It must be remembered, therefore, that, here, we are confronted by an aesthetician who had definitely turned his face away from all forms of modernism and adopted for his philosophy of art that which he conceived as being traditionally Indian or Hindu.
		In such a situation, we are obliged to take some specific examples of both and verify if they coincide or remain separate, that is, that he may or may not have espoused the theory to explicate the very works of art that were born of the theory in India.
	stateless.freehosting.net /ANANDAkCOOMARASWAMY.htm (9688 words)

	The Manifest: Art as Gnosis
		For Coomaraswamy, the artist is simultaneously ‘free and servile’; he/she is ‘theoretical and operative’; and yet again: ‘inventive and imitative.’ All this means that he well-understands the interior meets exterior swirling dynamics of artistry.
		Coomaraswamy encourages artists to continue their deep explorations along these lines; art for him is a means, the ends of which can reach none other than to the manifest essence of “face to face.”
		Again Coomaraswamy: “Beauty is at once a symptom and an invitation”; a symptom of what Kandinsky called the artist’s “inner need” as well as a beckoning and call to bring forth transcendence via art.
	www.the-manifest.org /14/cooma.html (2101 words)

	Coomaraswamy, A.K.; Coomaraswamy, R.P., ed.: The Door in the Sky: Coomaraswamy on Myth and Meaning.
		Coomaraswamy, A.K.; Coomaraswamy, R.P., ed.: The Door in the Sky: Coomaraswamy on Myth and Meaning.
		Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was a pioneer in Indian art history and in the cultural confrontation of East and West.
		These essays were written while Coomaraswamy was curator in the department of Asiatic Art of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where he built the first large collection of Indian art in the United States.
	www.pupress.princeton.edu /titles/6166.html (255 words)

	Software for quote enthusiasts: Books: The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (The Perennial Philosophy Series), ...
		A. Coomaraswamy's writings have been respected worldwide for demonstrating the universal spiritual content within the traditional art and philosophy of both the East and West.
		For those new to Coomaraswamy's writings, this is an excellent survey, and for those who cannot find some of his out-of-print essays, this collection may be the solution.
		The introduction by Rama Coomaraswamy includes a wonderful biography of his father with many details and from a perspective that have never been available before.
	www.primasoft.com /book_quotes/quote_religion_book_06.htm (274 words)

	The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (The Perennial Philosophy Series)
		Ananda K. Coomaraswamy was engaged in the world not only as a scholarly expositor of traditional culture and philosophy, but also as a radical critic of contemporary life.
		The writings collected by his son, the noted Christian traditional theologian Rama Coomaraswamy, constitute an outstanding instance of how to apply an immense erudition to the service of truth.
		This stimulating book demonstrates that Ananda Coomaraswamy is one of the few truly "essential" writers of our time.
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	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		COOMARASWAMY, ANANDA KENTISH [Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish], 1877-1947, art historian, b.
		Raised in London by an English mother, he returned to Ceylon in his early 20s.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish" at HighBeam.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Coomaras.asp (236 words)

	Perception of the Vedas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This is the twelfth volume in the series of the collected works of Ananda K Coomaraswamy on some aspects of Vedic text as one integrated perception.
		Published by Indira Gandhi National centre for the Arts Trust these collection of essays by Coomaraswamy are an exposition of Vedas by means of a translation and commentary in which the resources of other forms of the universal traditions are taken for granted.
		Coomaraswamy has tried to make accurate, evocative translations of Vedic and Upanisadic texts through the use of scholastic language and composite words.These translations are followed by copious notes covering related passages from other texts and translations in order to bring out a fuller meaning of the process of creation.
	www.indiaclub.com /html/9119.htm (182 words)

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