Neo-Vedanta

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and to later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā, first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, is now used throughout the world.

American philosopher (1803–1882)

English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)

Indian Hindu monk and philosopher (1863–1902)

Indian Bengali philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet and nationalist (1872–1950)

Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain; 11 December 193119 January 1990), also known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Acharya Rajneesh, and commonly known as Osho (), was an Indian godman, philosopher, mystic, and founder of the Rajneesh movement. He was a controversial new religious movement leader during his life. He rejected institutional religions, insisting that spiritual experience could not be organized into any one system of religious dogma. As a guru, he advocated meditation and taught a unique form called dynamic meditation. Rejecting traditional ascetic practices, he encouraged his followers t

Indian spiritual teacher (1879–1950)

Indian religious, social, and educational reformer, and humanitarian

Bengali writer, poet and journalist (1838-1894)

French metaphysician (1886-1951)

Sri Lankan Tamil metaphysician (1877–1947)

Spiritual leader

tradition in Hinduism linked to Advaita Vedanta

Hindu spiritual teacher (1887–1963)

Hindu reform movement

American writer and public speaker

Swiss philosopher, poet and painter (1907-1998)

15th-century philosophical idea that views all religious traditions as sharing a single truth or origin

religious organizational movement related to Indian saint Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

perennial philosophy

expression of political thought, based on the native social and cultural traditions of the Indian subcontinent

1954 essay by Aldous Huxley

Indian Hindu mystic (1866-1939)

Neo-Vedanta, also called neo-Hinduism, Hindu modernism, Global Hinduism and Hindu Universalism, are terms to characterise interpretations of Hinduism that developed in the 19th century. The term "Neo-Vedanta" was coined by German Indologist Paul Hacker, in a pejorative way, to distinguish modern developments from "traditional" Advaita Vedanta.

British occult writer (1924–2011)

Indian academic and scholar

Religious Organization

overview of the presence, role and impact of Hinduism in the United States

several contemporary Hindu groups

Indian professor of Comparative Religion (born 1940)

essay by Aldous Huxley

philosophy and practice of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother (Mirra Alfassa)

religious movement from mid-19th century Bengal

Belgian Catholic theologian, indologist, Jesuit priest and missionary (1914–1981)

experience interpreted within a religious framework