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Richard Wilhelm is the Marco Polo of the inner world of China. He, more
than any other, is responsible for opening up to the West the vast
spiritual heritage of China and thus all of Asia. He translated the
great philosophical works from Chinese into German, where they have in
turn been translated into the other major languages of the world,
including English. To this day, among the dozens of translations of the I
Ching now available, his 1923 translation stands head and shoulders
above the rest. He introduced the I Ching, and Chinese philosophy, to
the School of Wisdom when it first opened in 1920. These ideas have been
a integral part of its program ever since. Richard Wilhelm, and the
ancient Chinese Sages he came to know so well, are key Ancestors of the
School of Wisdom. ...Read More
Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta, India into a
wealthy Brahmin family. After a brief stay in England (1878) to attempt
to study law, he returned to India, and instead pursued a career as a
writer, playwright, songwriter, poet, philosopher and educator. During
the first 51 years of his life he achieved some success in the Calcutta
area of India where he was born and raised with his many stories, songs
and plays. His short stories were published monthly in a friend's
magazine and he even played the lead role in a few of the public
performances of his plays. Otherwise, he was little known outside of the
Calcutta area, and not known at all outside of India. ...Read More
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