About Swami Atmajnanananda
Swami Atmajnanananda was a monk.
Swami Atmajnanananda (also written Svāmī Ātmajñānānanda, born Stuart Elkman) is a swami (monk) of the Ramakrishna Order, which he joined in 1981. He has a Ph.D. in oriental studies from the University of Pennsylvania.
He authored Jiva Gosvamin's Tattvasandarbha: A Study on the Philosophical and Sectarian Development of the Gaudiya Vaisnava Movement, published by Motilal Banarsidass in 1986 under his pre-monastic name, Stuart Elkman.
Atmajnanananda was a significant critic of Jeffrey Kripal's book Kali's Child.
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