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Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought?

Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought?

Ananda Ananda

(flourished 6th century BC, India) First cousin and disciple of the Buddha. A monk who served as the Buddha's personal attendant, he became known as the “beloved disciple.” It was Ananda who persuaded the Buddha to allow women to become nuns.
 K. Coomaraswamy Coomaraswamy may refer to:
  • Ananda Coomaraswamy, Indian historian and art philosopher
  • Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict
  • Rama P Coomaraswamy, Indian collaborator of Mother Teresa
 

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This new edition of Coomaraswamy's classic work is a top pick for new age-oriented art and religious libraries: it holds all the definitive revisions he later intended to ad to the book and offers, for the first time, translations of the Greek, Latin, French, German and Italian terms he used. Extensive footnoted references provide solid documentation and bibliographic bib·li·og·ra·phy  
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 reference in a fine revised edition certain to prove a winning acquisition for any in-depth, detailed library covering Eastern spirituality and thinking.
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