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J.Krishnamurti
Pupul Jayakar

J.Krishnamurti

Penguin Books Australia (Mar 30, 2003)
9780140103434
| Paperback
528 pages | 140 x 211 mm

Subject

  • Autobiographies
  • Biographies &
  • Religious

Plot

A classic biography of one of the great spiritual teachers of our times In 1909, when he was just fourteen, Krishnamurti was proclaimed the world teacher in whom Maitreya, the Bodhisattva of compassion, would manifest. The proclamation was made by Annie Besant, then president of the Theosophical Society, a movement that combined Western occult philosophy with Buddhist and Hindu teachings. Besant trained Krishnamurti in his role as the chosen one but twenty years later he chose to disband the order he was head of and set out alone on his endless journey...