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Felipe
Vera
Prof. Lockesh
Chandra
Lieutenent Colonel FORREST Prof. Lokesh Chandra who is an internationally renowned scholar of Tibetan and Sino-Japanese Buddhism. Enormously prolific, he is the author of numerous important works, including critical editions of texts in Sanskrit, Tibetan, Mongolian and Chinese, as well as the Tibetan-Sanskrit Dictionary, Buddhist Iconography of Tibet and the Dictionary of Buddhist Iconography in 15 volumes. He served in the Indian Parliament from 1974-1980 and again from 1980-1986. At present he is the Director of the International Academy for Indian Culture.
Francesca
Marino
Francesca Marino Francesca Marino is an Italian journalist who has covered South
Asia extensively. She writes regularly for Limes-Italian Review of Geopolitics
and some of the most prestigious Italian and Swiss media. She won the Italian
journalism prize, Il Luigiano d'oro
in 2010. She is the Chief Editor of Stringer
Asia, an online magazine on South Asia, since 1995. She is also a respected
photographer and has been published in international magazines including Geo. Her previous publication was India in 100 Immagini (2007).
Friedrich
Muller
Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900), a German-born philologist and Orientalist, was one
of the founders of the western academic field of Indian studies and the
discipline of comparative religion. Well versed in Sanskrit, the classical
language of India, and many other languages, Max Müller was instrumental in
translating into English some of the most revered religious and philosophical
texts of Asia. Especially noteworthy is his edition of the great collection of
Sanskrit hymns of the Rigveda.
Intrigued by the concept of religion, Müller initiated an important discipline
that he called the science of religion. He believed that a genuine study of
religion required the knowledge of its origins, and recognised that religion
had developed differently in different linguistic spheres. So, instead of using
the prevailing ethnographic approach, he pursued the science of religion by
studying words and texts.Müller was fascinated by the spiritual
teachings of the Indian mystic, Ramakrishna, because, he was of the opinion
that the real presence of the Divine
in the human soul was nowhere felt so
strongly and so universally as in India, and that the fervent love of God
has nowhere found a stronger and more eloquent expression than in the
utterances of Ramakrishna.