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Periodical: Vedanta and the West

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Vedanta and The West.
Vedanta Society of Southern California.
1938?--1966? Bimonthly
Hollywood, CA.
Language: English.
Editor: Swami Prabhavananda, Christopher Isherwood, managing editor.
Publisher: Vedanta Press.
1/1, 1938 (?) 32 pp., $3.00 a year.

This was the work of Swami Prabhavananda (1893-1976), a disciple of Swami Brahmananda (1863-1922), the long-time head of the Ramakrishna mission. It attracted contributions from many westerners who had been attracted by Brahmananda's message, such as Gerald Heard, John Van Druten, Christopher Isherwood, Alan Watts, Arnold Toynbee, Aldous Huxley, and others. Issue in INTA.

Other Sources:
Issues:Vedanta And The West V9 N5 Sep-oct 1946
Vedanta And The West V10 N2 Mar-apr 1947
Vedanta And The West V10 N5 Sep-oct 1947
Vedanta And The West V10 N6 Nov-dec 1947
Vedanta And The West V11 N2 Mar-apr 1948
Vedanta And The West V11 N3 May-jun 1948
Vedanta And The West V12 N6 Nov-dec 1949
Vedanta And The West V13 N1 Jan-feb 1950
Vedanta And The West N129 Jan-feb 1958
Vedanta And The West N142 Mar-apr 1960
Vedanta And The West N144 Jul-aug 1960
Vedanta And The West N145 Sep-oct 1960
Vedanta And The West N151 Sep-oct 1951
Vedanta And The West N156 Jul-aug 1962
Vedanta And The West N158 Nov-dec 1962
Vedanta And The West N174 Jul-aug 1965
Vedanta And The West N175 Sep-oct 1965
Vedanta And The West N176 Nov-dec 1965
Claude-Generated Themes:   Vedanta and the West (1938–1970) was the bimonthly of the Vedanta Society of Southern California under Swami Prabhavananda, and the most literary of the Ramakrishna Order's Western journals — Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, Gerald Heard and John van Druten wrote for it, and its pages helped carry perennial-philosophy thinking to a wide readership. Its concern is Advaita and Ramakrishna–Vivekananda Vedanta and the comparative unity of the world's religions, insisting that no single conception of God can be made binding when Krishna, Christ, Buddha and Ramakrishna all point to the same transcendental realization. Karma and reincarnation appear as genuine Vedantic doctrine rather than occult machinery. It is best read as a bridge between monastic Hindu philosophy and mid-century Anglo-American letters, not as a paper of séance-room or esoteric phenomena.

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