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Vedanta Societies, first and most influential Hindu organization in the West, founded by Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902), a disciple of Indian mystic Ramakrishna (1836–86). Vivekananda attended an international religious conference in Chicago (1893), and later established the Vedanta Society of New York (1894), an organization devoted to service and mysticism. Vivekananda returned to India and founded the Ramakrishna Order (1897) to administer the network of Vedanta societies and humanitarian and religious activities. There are 20 centers in the United States.
BibliographySee J. Damrell, Seeking Spiritual Meaning (1977); C. Isherwood, My Guru and His Disciple (1988); C. T. Jackson, The Ramakrishna Movement in the United States (1994). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The Vedanta Temple nestles against the Santa Ynez Mountains on a 45-acre property owned by the Vedanta Society of Southern California. I was raised in the Bay Area where there was a Vedanta Society Center in Berkeley and I attended worship services there once. Pravrajika Brahmaprana has been a nun at the Santa Barbara branch of the Vedanta Society of Southern California since 1973. |
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