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Pravrajika Vrajaprana | |
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| Born | 1952 (age 71–72) California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Pravrajika (or sannyasini) at Vedanta Society of Southern California, Writer |
| Known for | Writer on Vedanta, Swami Vivekananda, Ramakrishna, Christopher Isherwood. |
Pravrajika Vrajaprana (born 1952) is a sannyasini or pravrajika (female swami) at the Vedanta Society of Southern California, affiliated with the Ramakrishna Order. She resides at Sarada Convent in Santa Barbara, California[1][2][3] and a writer on Vedanta, the history and growth of the Vedanta Societies.[4][5]
She is also a well known speaker and scholar on Hinduism and she speaks frequently at colleges, universities and interfaith gatherings and is the Hindu chaplain at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara.[6] Her works on Vedanta include, Vedanta: A Simple Introduction (1999), editor of Living Wisdom (1994). She is the co-author, with Swami Tyagananda, of Interpreting Ramakrishna: Kali's Child Revisited (2010).[7]
Pravrajika Vrajaprana was born in California in 1952. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she also worked briefly as Associate Professor of Literature.[8] She came in contact with Swami Prabhavananda at the Vedanta Society of Santa Barbara in 1967, while involved with anti-Vietnam war activism.[2] In 1977 she joined the Sarada Convent in Santa Barbara.[1] She took the first vows of brahmacharya in 1983 and had final vows of sannyasa in 1988.[8]
Vrajaprana was a co-speaker with the 14th Dalai Lama at the Interfaith Conference in San Francisco (2006).[9] She was a panelist in the discussion on Interpreting Ramakrishna at DANAM, held at the annual AAR meeting 2010.[10][11]
- ^ a b Bardach, Ann Louise (April 2010). "Shangri-La". LA Yoga Magazine. 9 (3). Retrieved 16 March 2011.
- ^ a b Philip Goldberg (2010). American Veda. Crown Publishing. pp. 84–85.
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- ^ Eugene V. Gallagher, W. Michael Ashcraft (2006). Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 10. ISBN 9780275987176.
- ^ Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2004). "The Early Spread of Vedanta Societies: An Example of "Imported Localism"". Numen. 51 (3). Brill Publishers: 301. doi:10.1163/1568527041945526. JSTOR 3270585.
- ^ The Religion in the United States: Pluralism and Public Presence 2012 Archived 2012-07-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Philip Goldberg (2010). American Veda. Crown Publishing. p. 357.
- ^ a b Anna Lännström (2004). Stranger's Religion. University of Notre Dame Press. p. xvii.
- ^ Kim Vo (April 16, 2006). "Dalai Lama promotes harmony of religions". Mercury News. Retrieved 2011-03-12.
- ^ "Panel discussion on Interpreting Ramakrishna" (PDF). Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM). Retrieved 2011-02-01.
- ^ Pedersen, Kusumita P. (March 2011), "Book Reviews : Interpreting Ramakrishna", Hinduism Today: 57, retrieved 3 March 2011