Academic study
Great Swan (Lex Hixon)
Great Swan: Meetings with Ramakrishna
It rewrites scenes from the Gospel as meditations, in contemporary language and with personal interpretation. It has been very popular with Western readers, but it must be clearly distinguished from the sources, since the words it gives Ramakrishna are often Hixon’s own.
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Authorship note
Free re-creation of the Kathamrita by Lex Hixon (1941–1995), writer and practitioner; not a translation.
Editions and translations
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English
Great Swan: Meetings with Ramakrishna
Larson Publications, Burdett, 1997
ISBN 9780943914800
Great Swan: Meetings with Ramakrishna
Shambhala, Boston, 1992
ISBN 9780877736608
ISBN-10 087773660X.
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
- Sri Sri Ramakrishna Punthi (A Portrait of Sri Ramakrishna) · 1901
- 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
Sources
- Wikipedia en inglés, «Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita»: historia de la publicación (1897–1932), método de M. y juicio de Sumit Sarkar sobre los 186 días que cubre el texto.
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