Swami Medhananda is born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He studied in Berkeley University, Oxford and German University.
Swami Medhananda, also known as Ayon Maharaj, is a scholarly monk of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission and currently Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Ramakrishna Institute of Moral and Spiritual Education (RIMSE) in Mysore, India. He received his Ph.D. in German aesthetics from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the recipient of several awards and fellowships across the world. The Maharaj is an expert in cross-cultural philosophy, especially on Ramakrishna-Vivekananda thought, Vedanta philosophy, scriptural hermeneutics, and the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo.
His first book, The Dialectics of Aesthetic Agency Revaluating German Aesthetics from Kant to Adorno, was published by Bloomsbury in 2013. His second book, Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality: Sri Ramakrishna and Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion, was published by Oxford University Press in 2018, and has been well-received in academia and also in Ramakrishna-Vivekananda circles. He is also the editor of the recently published Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Vedānta to which international scholars on the subject have contributed. His new book, Swami Vivekananda’s Vedāntic Cosmopolitanism, will be published by Oxford University Press in January 2022.
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