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Swami Tyagananda

Monk of the Ramakrishna Order. Vedanta Society, Boston. Hindu chaplain at Harvard and MIT. Latest book, "Walking the Walk: A Manual of Karma Yoga" (2013)

Swami Tyagananda, a monk of the Ramakrishna Order since 1976, is the head of the Vedanta Society in Boston, and is the Hindu Chaplain at Harvard and MIT.

Prior to coming to the United States, Swami Tyagananda was for eleven years the editor of the English language journal "Vedanta Kesari" based in Chennai, India. He has written, translated and edited ten books, including "Monasticism: Ideals and Traditions" (1991), "Values: The Key to a Meaningful Life" (1996) and "The Essence of the Gita" (2000), "Interpreting Ramakrishna: Kali's Child Revisited" (2011), and his latest book, "Walking the Walk: A Manual of Karma Yoga" (2013).

Swami Tyagananda has presented papers at academic conferences and he gives lectures and classes at the Vedanta Society as well as at MIT, Harvard and, on invitation, other colleges and religious groups in North America and around the world.

February 11, 2017

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