Western Admirers of Ramakrishna and his Disciples

This massive book examines the stories of some 600 westerners who met and admired Ramakrishna, The Holy Mother, and the disciples of Ramakrishna. The reader will find many previously unknown stories...Weighing in at almost 1000 pages, around 600 western artists, authors, leaders, and other influential people are mentioned including Albert Einstein, Aldous Huxley, Arnold Toynbee, Carl Jung, D.T. Suzuki,,J.D. Salinger, Joseph Campbell, Mark Twain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philip Glass, and many others. You may not know all of them, but the articles describe the personalities and their connection with the Vedanta movement in America. Well over 400 pages deal explicitly with Swami Vivekananda s contact with Westerners or with distinguished admirers who later paid tributes to him.