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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.

* Essays on Post-Industrialism ( 1914 ) edited with Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy

The “ perennialist ” or “ traditionalist ” school is represented by authors like the French René Guénon ( 1886 – 1951 ), the Indian Ananda Coomaraswamy ( 1877 – 1947 ), the Swiss Frithjof Schuon ( 1907 – 1998 ), the Italian Julius Evola ( 1898 – 1974 ), the Iranian Seyyed Hossein Nasr ( born in 1933 ), both scholars and esotericists.

Aurobindo Ghosh was the first Principal of the Bengal National College and among the teachers were luminaries like Rabindranath Tagore, Sir Gurudas Bandyopadhyay, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Surendranath Banerjee, Ramendra Sundar Tribedi, Radha Kumud Mukherjee and Benoy Kumar Sarkar.

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Many renowned Indian philosophers such as Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Ananda Coomaraswamy and others used the writing of Plotinus in their own texts as a superlative elaboration upon Indian monism, specifically Upanishadic and Advaita Vedantic thought.

A self-described " disciple " of the Ceylonese philosopher and art historian Ananda Coomaraswamy, Gill was fascinated during this period by Indian temple sculpture.

For a compelling counter-argument to Foucher's essay, see Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, " The Origin of the Buddha Image ".

During the same period, Eliade began a correspondence with the Ceylonese-born philosopher Ananda Coomaraswamy.

In 1947, he was facing material constraints, and Ananda Coomaraswamy found him a job as a French-language teacher in the United States, at a school in Arizona ; the arrangement ended upon Coomaraswamy's death in September.

A " philosophia perennis " is also the central concept of the " Traditionalist School " formalized in the writings of 20th century thinkers René Guénon, Frithjof Schuon, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Titus Burckhardt, Martin Lings, and Seyyed Hossein Nasr.

In the intellectual field, the writings of Ananda Coomaraswamy, Ram Swarup, Sita Ram Goel, Subhash Kak, Frank Morales and David Frawley have been influential.

Some of them were Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan, Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Ramana Maharshi and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

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Ananda Coomaraswamy, the Sri Lankan philosopher and art critic who was a colleague of Ashbee, settled at Broad Campden where Ashbee adapted the Norman chapel for him.

The Harvard orientalist Ananda Coomaraswamy and the Swiss art historian Titus Burckhardt also became prominent advocates of this point of view.

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It was thought, for instance, that the temple of Puri occupied almost certainly the site of an earlier Buddhist shrine, without any real evidence to support this view ; while General Alexander Cunningham's suggestions that the figure of Jagannath was derived from the Buddhist symbol of the triratna ( or taurine ) was accepted even by such authorities as the Sri Lankan Buddhist scholar Ananda Coomaraswamy.

Smith developed an interest in the Traditionalist School formulated by René Guénon and Ananda Coomaraswamy.

These ideas are sometimes referred to in the Latin as: the philosophia perennis and are expounded in the writings and teachings of French metaphysician René Guénon, German-Swiss philosopher Frithjof Schuon and the Ceylonese-British scholar Ananda Coomaraswamy.

Naturally, through the work and influence of important traditionalist authors like, again, Guénon himself, who married and had children in Egypt, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Martin Lings, Gai Eaton and Seyyed Hossein Nasr, all closely related to native Hindu, Buddhist or Muslim believers, this perspective has been gaining ground in Asia and the Islamic world at large.

* Ananda Coomaraswamy ( 1877 – 1947 ) – Curator of Oriental Art

At the First Buddhist Council, convened shortly after the Buddha died, Ananda was called upon to recite many of the discourses that later became the Sutta Pitaka of the Pāli Canon.

Despite his long association with and close proximity to the Buddha, Ananda was only a stream-winner prior to the Buddha ’ s death.

However, Buddha said that the purity of his heart was so great that, " Should Ananda die without being fully liberated ; he would be king of the gods seven times because of the purity of his heart, or be king of the Indian subcontinent seven times.

Prior to the First Buddhist Council, it was proposed that Ananda not be permitted to attend on the grounds that he was not yet an arahant.

According to legend, this prompted Ananda to focus his efforts on the attainment of nibbana and he was able to reach the specified level of attainment before the calling of the conclave.

The first single released from " Ananda " was the rock / pop song Ni Una Sola Palabra which was Palina Rubio's third song to top the Billboard Hot Latin Songs and Pop Latin Songs.

Nada Puede Cambiarme was released as the second single from Ananda.

Ananda was certified and given a multi-platinum award for album sales of 250, 000 in the U. S. and Puerto Rico.

While King Prajadhipok was never directly involved in the rebellion, it marked the beginning of a slide which ended in his 1935 abdication and replacement by King Ananda Mahidol.

Pridi Phanomyong was appointed acting Regent for the absent King Ananda Mahidol, while Direk Jayanama, the prominent Foreign Minister who had advocated continued resistance against the Japanese, was later sent to Tokyo as the Thai ambassador to Japan.

The old capital remained a pilgrimage destination but pilgrimage was focused only on " a score or so " most prominent temples out of the thousands such as the Ananda, the Shwezigon, the Sulamani, the Htilominlo, the Dhammayazika, and a few other temples along an ancient road.

This tree, because it was planted under the direction of Ananda, came to be known as the Ananda Bodhi. Then he ate six grains of rice.

Legend has it that the huge volume of teachings was recited from memory, with Ananda reciting the dhamma and Upali reciting the Vinaya.

His father died when Ananda was 2 years old, and Ananda spent much of his childhood and education abroad.

The song was written and composed by the Ananda Samarakoon in 1940, and was later adopted as the national anthem in 1951.

Walter Mercado Salinas ( born 9 March 1932 ), also known by his stage name Shanti Ananda, is a Puerto Rican astrologer.

Radha Rani Amber Indigo Ananda Mitchell ( born 12 November 1973 ) is an Australian actress.

Thilan Samaraweera born in Colombo and had his education at Ananda College, Colombo.

Tatparanandam Ananda Krishnan (; born 1938 ) is a Malaysian businessman and philanthropist of Sri Lankan Tamil origin.

Swami Kriyananda Giri, born James Donald Walters ( born May 19, 1926 ), is a direct disciple of the yogi Paramhansa Yogananda ( 1893 – 1952 ) and founder of Ananda, a worldwide movement of spiritual intentional communities based on Yogānanda's World Brotherhood Colonies ideal.

Ananda Shiv Prasad ( born 1928 ) is a biochemist specialising in the role of zinc in the human metabolism.

He had married Amala Shankar and they had a son Ananda Shankar in 1942, and a daughter Mamata Shankar born in 1955.

It was in Heidelberg where his first son Prince Ananda Mahidol was born in the same year.

* King Ananda Mahidol ( Rama VIII ), ( born 20 September 1925, died 9 June 1946 ), unmarried