Takamori Lecture- The Crisis of Mankind (An Old and Rare Book)

The author of the Takamori Lecture is probably the foremost Indian exponent of what has come to be recognized as the Traditional view of life, or more specifically of the Philosophia Perennis which underlies this view. In this he joins the ranks of individuals like Marco Pallis, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Titus Burckhardt, Martin Lings, to say nothing of those usually considered as having brought to the fore in the present century the fundamental principles involved, namely René Guénon, Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and Frithjof Schuon. It is perhaps misleading to refer to him as an "Indian Exponent", for while he has, for many years, been associated with the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarnath, Varanasi (India), and before that he had been at Lucknow University, he has in fact taught at several American universities and has lectured extensively throughout the world, not only in the West and Europe, but also in the Islamic World.

He is the author of many books, among them Traditional Thought: Toward an Axiomatic Approach; Illuminations: A School for the Regeneration of Man's Experience, Imagination and Intellectual Integrity: On the Intellectual Vocation; Traditional Vision of Man and Sociology of Knowledge and Traditional Thought.

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