Ramakrishna
Sri Sri Ramakrishna Punthi (A Portrait of Sri Ramakrishna)
Later compilation
Sri Sri Ramakrishna Punthi (A Portrait of Sri Ramakrishna)
শ্রীশ্রীরামকৃষ্ণপুঁথি (Sri Sri Ramakrishna Punthi)
With the Kathamrita and the Lilaprasanga, the tradition’s third great source. It tells the master’s life in the idiom of village singers, with great hagiographic freedom, and preserves details of the early years gathered from witnesses at Kamarpukur and Dakshineswar.
No edition of this work is currently on sale in a store we have been able to verify.
Authorship note
Narrative poem in popular Bengali verse (panchali) written by the lay disciple Akshay Kumar Sen (d. 1923) between 1887 and 1901, encouraged by Vivekananda; first titled Charitamrita. It is not Ramakrishna’s work but a devotional life incorporating his teachings.
Editions and translations
Editions in your language first, without hiding the others. Each with its cover and its store.
English
Ramakrishna
A Portrait of Sri Ramakrishna
The Conscious LibraryA Portrait of Sri Ramakrishna
Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Calcuta (distr. Vedanta Press), 1999
ISBN 9788185843926
Traducción inglesa en prosa.
Other works by Ramakrishna
- Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita (The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna) · 1902
- The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna according to M. (M.’s own English version) · 1897
- The Gospel of Râmakrishna (Abhedananda edition, 1907) · 1907
- Sri Ramakrishna, the Great Master (Lilaprasanga) · 1909
- Râmakrishna: His Life and Sayings · 1898
- Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna · 1903
- Tales and Parables of Sri Ramakrishna
- Teachings of Sri Ramakrishna · 1934
- Words of the Master
- Life of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Ramchandra Datta) · 1890
- Ramakrishna as We Saw Him · 1990
- The Life of Ramakrishna (Romain Rolland) · 1929
- Ramakrishna and His Disciples (Christopher Isherwood) · 1965
- Kali’s Child (Jeffrey J. Kripal) · 1995
- Interpreting Ramakrishna (Tyagananda and Vrajaprana) · 2010
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa: Sadhaka of Dakshineswar (Amiya P. Sen) · 2010
- Great Swan (Lex Hixon) · 1992
Sources
- Sen, Akshay Kumar. Sri Sri Ramakrishna Punthi (poema narrativo en bengalí, escrito entre 1887 y 1901). Trad. inglesa en prosa: A Portrait of Sri Ramakrishna. Calcuta: Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, 1999.
Affiliate link: if you buy through it, the library may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. When an edition's real cover is not available, we show an illustrative library cover.