02-09-2006, 10:37 PM
Got this in an e-mail. forwarded to me by one of the sanskrit teachers
google search on this Professor Francis X. Clooney gives good info. I think this guy is part of larger agenda. Anybody here heard of him...
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Harvard University
         Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies
                Outreach Lecture
                 Winter 2006
        "Vedanta Desika - Loving God in Medieval South India"
             Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
               Harvard Divinity School
            Saturday, February 11, 2006, 3:00 PM
          Hall A, Harvard University Science Center
              1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Abstract: Srivashnavism is one of the principal traditions in Indian
religious life. Vedanta Desika (1268-1369) was a prominent Srivaisnava
scholar in the tradition of the Alvar poet saints of South India and
the Vedanta tradition of Ramanuja. An important late work in his long
and prolific career is the Srimad Rahasyatrayasaram, wherein he
expounds the meaning of the three sacred mantras of the tradition, the nature
of taking refuge with Lord Narayana and Sri Laksmi, the way of life of
true devotees, and the correct manner of teaching and learning as a
Srivaisnava. The lecture will introduce the text and highlight its fundamental insight
into love of God - in the Srivaisnava tradition, and more broadly for
Hindus and in an interreligious context.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
google search on this Professor Francis X. Clooney gives good info. I think this guy is part of larger agenda. Anybody here heard of him...
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Harvard University
         Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies
                Outreach Lecture
                 Winter 2006
        "Vedanta Desika - Loving God in Medieval South India"
             Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
               Harvard Divinity School
            Saturday, February 11, 2006, 3:00 PM
          Hall A, Harvard University Science Center
              1 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Abstract: Srivashnavism is one of the principal traditions in Indian
religious life. Vedanta Desika (1268-1369) was a prominent Srivaisnava
scholar in the tradition of the Alvar poet saints of South India and
the Vedanta tradition of Ramanuja. An important late work in his long
and prolific career is the Srimad Rahasyatrayasaram, wherein he
expounds the meaning of the three sacred mantras of the tradition, the nature
of taking refuge with Lord Narayana and Sri Laksmi, the way of life of
true devotees, and the correct manner of teaching and learning as a
Srivaisnava. The lecture will introduce the text and highlight its fundamental insight
into love of God - in the Srivaisnava tradition, and more broadly for
Hindus and in an interreligious context.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->