Haridas chaudhuri biography of mahatma
Mahatma Gandhi, His Message for Mankind: A Commemoration Symposium [Haridas Chaudhuri and Leonard Roy Frank, Beniamino Bufano, Framroze A. Bode....
Haridas Chaudhuri (1913-1975), Bengali integral philosopher, was a correspondent with Sri Aurobindo and the founder of the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS).
He was born in Kolkata. He studied at the Scottish Church College and later at the University of Calcutta from where he earned his doctorate in Indian philosophy.
Mahatma Gandhi: his message for mankind, a commemorative symposium Pamphlet - by Gandhi, Mahatma, edited by Haridas Chaudhuri and Leonard Roy Frank.
He became a professor and later the chair of philosophy at the Krishnagar College, a constituent college of the University of Calcutta.
California Institute of Integral Studies
In 1951, Dr. Chaudhuri was invited by Frederic Spiegelberg of Stanford University to join the staff of the newly formed American Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco.
He accepted the invitation, eager to implement in a Western educational institution the integral approach to education that he had developed as a student of Sri Aurobindo. Soon after his arrival in San Francisco, Dr. Chaudhuri and his wife Bina established the Cultural Integration Fellowship, from which emer