1. Swami Medhananda is an Indian-American author, philosopher and a monk of the Ramakrishna Order.
10 Facts About Swami Medhananda
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Swami Medhananda has written books on Vedanta Philosophy, including several published by Oxford University Press and has a new book coming from Cambridge University Press.
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Swami Medhananda is fluent in English, German, and Bengali and has reading proficiency in Sanskrit, Pali, and French.
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Swami Medhananda frequently gives lectures at the Hollywood, and Santa Barbara Vedanta Temples, as well as the Trabuco Ramakrishna Monastery and the San Diego Vedanta Center.
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Swami Medhananda has given guest lectures at Harvard, UCLA, Mahamakut Buddhist University, Loyola Marymount University, University of Heidelberg, Boston College, University of Vienna, Ohio State University, Oxford University, University of Munster, St Xavier's College, Kolkata, and Princeton University.
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Swami Medhananda's revised doctoral dissertation was published as his first book, entitled The Dialectics of Aesthetic Agency: Revaluating German Aesthetics from Kant to Adorno.
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Swami Medhananda was the Associate Professor and Head of the Program in Philosophy from 2010 to 2021, at the Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, in Belur Math, West Bengal.
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Swami Medhananda is currently serving as Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Vedanta Society of Southern California in Hollywood.
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Swami Medhananda is the Hindu Chaplain at University of California Los Angeles and the University of Southern California.
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Swami Medhananda is researching and writing on the global philosophy of religion, epistemology of mystical experience, Indian scriptural hermeneutics, cosmopsychism, and Vedantic philosophical traditions, with special focus on the philosophies of Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda, and Sri Aurobindo.