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  • 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. M�ller 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...

  • Somerset Maugham (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era, and reputedly, the highest paid author during the 1930s. His bestselling twentieth century novel, The Razor’s Edge (1944), tells of the main character who gives up a life of privilege in search of spiritual enlightenment. Maugham himself visited Ramanasramam where he had a direct interaction with Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi in Tamil Nadu, India in 1938...

  • Paul Brunton (October 21, 1898 - July 27, 1981) was born Raphael Hurst, and later changed his name to Brunton Paul and then Paul Brunton. He was a British philosopher, mystic, traveller, and guru. He left a journalistic career to live among yogis, mystics, and holy men, and studied Eastern and Western esoteric teachings. Dedicating his life to an inward and spiritual quest, Brunton felt charged to communicate his experiences about what he learned in the East to others...

  • Aldous Huxley (26 July 1894 � 22 November 1963) was an English writer. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963. Best known for his novels including The Perennial Philosophy, Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine, Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film stories and scripts...

  • Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic. He was a philosopher of Islam, but not a Muslim of the orthodox type. His doctrine advocates unlimited tolerance, positive reasoning, goodness, charity and awareness through love. To him and to his disciples, all religions are more or less truth...

  • Paul Cézanne (19 January 1839 � 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. C�zanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism...

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