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Periodical: Brahmavadin

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Brahmavadin, The.
A Monthly Religious and Philosophical Journal / The Monthly Magazine of Religion, Philosophy and Allied Subjects.
That which exists is one: sages call it variously
1895--1914 Semimonthly, monthly (from 1898)
Triplicane, Madras, India.
Language: English.
Editor: Alasinga Perumal (1865-1909).
Publisher: Tripilicant (Madras), Thompson & Co. (New York). Succeeded by: Vedanta Kesari (1914-present)
1/1, September 1895-19/, March-April 1914.
Rs. 4/ $2.00 a year.

This was published by Alasinga Perumal after Swami Vivekananda had suggested the project to him and it was devoted to Vedanta as envisioned by Vivekananda It contained contributions by various swamis who sought to spread the word of Vedanta to the West, such as Sister Nivedita and Swami Abhedananda, but also contained occasional articles on Islam, Christianity, Jainism, etc. Noted in The Metaphysical Magazine, 1896, "List of Advance Thought Publications," The New Cycle, March 1900, 159-60, and The Metaphysical Magazine, February 1901, 159, and in Notes and Queries, January 1900.

Other Sources:
Issues:Brahmavadin V4 N1 - V4 NS 23-24 Oct 1898-Sep 1899
Brahmavadin V5 1900
Brahmavadin V6 1901
Brahmavadin V7 1902
Brahmavadin V8 1903
Brahmavadin V9 1904
Brahmavadin V10 1905
Brahmavadin V11 1906
Brahmavadin V12 1907
Brahmavadin V13 1908
Brahmavadin V15 1910
Claude-Generated Themes:   Brahmavadin, founded at Madras in 1895 in the circle of Swami Vivekananda and the Ramakrishna movement, was among the first English-language reviews of Vedanta addressed to a modern readership. Its title means the speaker of Brahman, and its subject is Advaita Vedanta argued from scripture: the great identity of self and absolute, the exegesis of scriptural injunction against statement of fact, the psychology of yoga and the control of the modifications of the mind, and the application of non-dualist principle to Indian social questions including caste. Vivekananda himself appears in its pages. It belongs to this archive not as a periodical of phenomena — it has none — but as one of the principal channels by which classical Indian philosophy reached Western and Anglophone-Indian audiences in the decades when Theosophy, New Thought and the comparative study of religion were all drawing on it. Its karmic vocabulary is doctrinal and original, not borrowed.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Hindu Religion and Philosophy | Yoga and Vedanta