Pravrajika Vrajaprana

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Pravrajika Vrajaprana
Born 1952
Nationality American
Occupation Nun at Vedanta Society, Writer
Known for Writer on Vedanta, Swami Vivekananda, Ramakrishna, Christopher Isherwood.

Pravrajika Vrajaprana is a writer on Vedanta, the history and growth of the Vedanta Societies[1][2] and a nun at the Vedanta Society of Southern California's Sarada Convent.[3][4][5] She is also a well known speaker and scholar on Hinduism and has given talks at several universities and interfaith gatherings.[6] Her works on Vedanta include, Vedanta: A Simple Introduction (1999), editor of Living Wisdom (1994). She is the co-author, with Swami Tyagananda, of Interpreting Ramakrishna: Kali's Child Revisited (2010).[7]

Pravrajika Vrajaprana was born in California in 1952. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she also worked briefly as Associate Professor of Literature.[8] She came in contact with Swami Prabhavananda at the Vedanta Society of Santa Barbara in 1967, while involved with anti-Vietnam war activism.[4] In 1977 she joined the Sarada Convent of the Vedanta Society at Santa Barbara.[3] She took the first vows of brahmacharya in 1983 and had final vows of sannyasa in 1988.[8]

Vrajaprana was a co-speaker with the 14th Dalai Lama at the Interfaith Conference in San Francisco (2006).[9] She was a panelist in the discussion on Interpreting Ramakrishna at DANAM, held at the annual AAR meeting 2010.[10][11]

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