Quote of the day
That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
Born: August 22, 1877
Died: September 9, 1947 (aged 70)
Bio: Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy was a Ceylonese Tamil philosopher and metaphysician, as well as a pioneering historian and philosopher of Indian art, particularly art history and symbolism, and an early interpreter of Indian culture to the West.
Known for:
- The Dance Of Siva (1918)
- The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
- Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art (1943)
- The transformation of nature in art (1934)
- Buddha and the gospel of Buddhism (1916)