- Max Müller (1823–1900), was a German philologist and Orientalist, one of the founders of the Western academic field of Indian studies and the discipline of comparative religion. Müller wrote both scholarly and popular works on the subject of Indology, a discipline he introduced to the British reading public, and the Sacred Books of the East, a massive, 50-volume set of English translations prepared under his direction, stands as an enduring monument to Victorian scholarship...
- Paul Deussen (1845 –1919) was a German Orientalist and Sanskrit scholar. He was influenced by Arthur Schopenhauer. He was also a friend of Friedrich Nietzsche and Swami Vivekananda. In 1911, he founded the Schopenhauer Society (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft). He was the first editor, in 1912, of the scholarly journal Schopenhauer Yearbook (Schopenhauer-Jahrbuch)...
- John Tavener (born 28 January 1944) is a British composer, best known for religious, minimal works such as The Whale, Ikos and his recent masterpiece Requiem, which combines themes from the Requiem Mass, the Qur’an, Sufi texts and the Upanishads. Opening with haunting single cello and soprano voice, 'Primordial White Light' leads us into an ethereal chorus of pure and pristine sound. We then encounter the agitated whirlwind of 'Kali’s Dance'; the poignant melancholia of 'Ananda'; the exquisite harmony of 'Advaita Vedanta: The Still Point'; and finally the ethereal yearning of 'Mahashakti'. This is one of those rare occasions when it would be fitting to use the word bliss...
- Kim Ki-duk (born December 20, 1960) is a South Korean filmmaker noted for his idiosyncratic 'art-house' cinematic works. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (UK: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring) is his 2003 film about a Buddhist monastery, which floats on a lake in a pristine forest. The story is about the life of a Buddhist monk as he passes through the seasons of his life, from childhood to old age...
- Christopher Isherwood (August 26, 1904 – January 4, 1986) was an English novelist. As Managing Editor of Vedanta and the West, the official publication of the Vedanta Society of Southern California, he was part of an élite group of visionary artists, including Aldous Huxley, Gerald Heard, Alan Watts, J. Krishnamurti and W. Somerset Maugham. He embraced Vedanta, and, together with Swami Prabhavananda, he produced several Hindu scriptural translations, Vedanta essays, the biography Ramakrishna and His Disciples, novels, plays and screenplays, all imbued with the themes and character of Vedanta and the Upanishadic quest...
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