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Ananda Coomaraswamy

Ananda Coomaraswamy
Coomaraswamy in 1916, photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn
Personal information
Birth dateAugust 22, 1877
Place of birthColombo, British Ceylon
Date of deathSeptember 09, 1947(age 70)
Death placeNeedham, Massachusetts
Known formetaphysician, philosopher, historian
ReligionHindu

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Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy ( , Ānanda Kentiś Kūmaraswāmī) (22 August 1877, Colombo, Ceylon − 9 September 1947, Needham, Massachusetts) was a Ceylonese philosopher and metaphysician, as well as a pioneering historian and philosopher of Indian art, particularly art history and symbolism, and an early interpreter of Indian culture to the West. In particular, he is described as "the groundbreaking theorist who was largely responsible for introducing ancient Indian art to the West."

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Ceylon Daily News---...- will be held on December 13, 2010 at 5 pm at the Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium of the Mahaweli Centre, No 96, -Ananda Coomaraswamy- Mawatha, Colombo 07. ... - Date : Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:49:05 GMT+00:00
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Daily Mirror--96, -Ananda Coomaraswamy- Mawatha, Colombo 07. The title of the lecture is 'The Supra mundane Society of Buddhism' presented by Prof. Oliver Abeynayake. ... - Date : Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:39:49 GMT+00:00
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The Island.lk (subscription)---...- Pakistan High Commissioner who escaped death when a car-bomb targeted his motorcade on -Ananda Coomaraswamy- Mavatha, claimed that it was a RAW operation. ... - Date : Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:33:18 GMT+00:00

Modern Dharma/Dhamma writers (1875 to date)

BuddhistRahul Sankrityayan * B. R. Ambedkar * Stephen Batchelor * Stephan Bodian * Lokesh Chandra * Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche * Pema Chödrön * Edward Conze * Lama Surya Das * Alexandra David-Néel * Henepola Gunaratana * Kelsang Gyatso * Dalai Lama * Thrangu Rinpoche * Walpola Rahula * C.A.F. Rhys Davids * T.W. Rhys Davids * Seongcheol * Sogyal Rinpoche * Chogyal Namkhai Norbu * Robert Thurman * Richard Gombrich * Chah Subhatto * Nanavira Thera * Thanissaro Bhikkhu * Bhikkhu Bodhi * Nyanaponika Thera * Jack Kornfield * Gil Fronsdal * Seung Sahn * Kitaro Nishida * Khyentse Norbu * D.T. Suzuki * Paul Reps * Scott Shaw * Thich Nhat Hanh * Yin Shun * Hsuan Hua * Hsing Yun * Philip Kapleau * Shunryu Suzuki * Taizan Maezumi * Han Yong-un * Ole Nydahl
HinduA. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada * Aurobindo * Satsvarupa dasa Goswami * A. Coomaraswamy * Bankim * Alain Daniélou * Dayananda * Sita Ram Goel * Ramana Maharshi * The Mother * Swami Ramdas * Sivananda * Ram Swarup * Tilak * Vivekananda * Yogananda
JainSatish Kumar * Claudia Pastorino * Yashodev Suri * Jayantsain Suri
SikhBhai Vir Singh * Harjot Oberoi * G.S. Talib * Khushwant Singh
Syncretic
and others		Annie Besant * Ram Dass * Eknath Easwaran * Sathya Sai Baba * Georg Feuerstein * H.S. Olcott * Meher Baba * Osho * Alan Watts * Ken Wilber * David Frawley

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Major compositionsSonatas and Interludes (1946 - 48) * Music of Changes (1951) * Imaginary Landscape No. 4 (1951) * 4 �33 � (1952) * Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1958) * Variations (1958 - 67) * Atlas Eclipticalis (1961 - 62) * Cheap Imitation (1969) * HPSCHD (1969) * Song Books (1970) * Etudes Australes (1974 - 75) * Freeman Etudes (1977 - 90) * Roaratorio (1979) * Ryoanji (1983) * Europeras (1987 - 91) * Number Pieces (1987 - 92)
Collaborators and influencesNorman O. Brown * Ananda Coomaraswamy * Merce Cunningham * Marcel Duchamp * Jasper Johns * Charles Olson * Robert Rauschenberg * Demetrio Stratos * D. T. Suzuki * David Tudor * Edgard Varèse
BooksSilence (1961) * A Year from Monday (1968) * M (1973) * Empty Words (1979) * X (1983) * Anarchy (1988)
Related subjects and listsIndeterminacy in music * List of compositions * Works for prepared piano



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