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2 unusual facts about Krishnamurti


Krishnamurti's Journal

Krishnamurti kept a diary at various dates between September 1973 and April 1975, while he was staying at Brockwood Park, Rome and California.

Mary Lutyens

Krishnamurti: The Years of Fulfilment, London: John Murray, 1983, ISBN 0-7195-3979-X, Farrar, Straus, Giroux paperback: ISBN 0-374-18224-8, Avon Books 1991 reprint with US spelling "Fulfillment": ISBN 0-380-71112-5.


Besant v. Narayaniah

In July 1909, the theosophist Charles Webster Leadbeater chanced upon Krishnamurti on the banks of the Adyar River and allegedly noticed signs of greatness in him.

Erich Schiffmann

At age 18 Schiffmann sent a handwritten letter to Krishnamurti and was accepted to study with him in England.

Facundo Cabral

"I stop in San Francisco where there's always something to hear, at least when Krishnamurti is nearby, he who knows that the fundamental revolution is to revolutionize one's self. I stop in Crete where there is always something to love."

Jiddu Krishnamurti bibliography

These discussions were edited anonymously into book form by Mary Cadogan, a long-time Krishnamurti associate in England.

Lutyens

Mary Lutyens, writer and biographer of Jiddu Krishnamurti, and daughter of Emily and Edwin Lutyens

Mary Cadogan

In 1958 she started working for the Indian philosopher Krishnamurti and remained for nearly twenty years.

Mary Lutyens

In the 1920s, she spent some time at The Manor, a centre run by Charles Webster Leadbeater in Mosman, New South Wales, Australia, while Krishnamurti and his brother Nitya stayed at another house nearby.

T. Nagi Reddy

He did his schooling from Rishi Valley School India, founded by the philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti.He studied at Loyola College in Madras and at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi.

U. G. Krishnamurti

During his 20s, Krishnamurti began attending the University of Madras, studying psychology, philosophy, mysticism, and the sciences, but never completed a degree, having determined that the answers of the West – to what he considered were essential questions – were no better than those of the East.

Vaidiki Brahmins

Sripada Pinakapani – Sangita Kalanidhi and guru of Voleti Venkateswarlu, Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana, Nedanuri Krishnamurti


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