Swami Vivekananda
1863 CE – 1902 CElived
Calcutta, British India
- Advaita Vedānta
- Neo-Vedānta
Reframed Advaita as a universal philosophy and took it to Chicago in 1893, which is roughly when Western audiences began treating Indian thought as philosophy rather than folklore.
Known for
- practical Vedanta
- the divinity of the self
- service as worship