Quote of the day
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
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)