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Coomaraswamy

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/ kuːˌmɑːrəˈswɑːmɪ /

noun

  1. Ananda ( Kentish ). 1877–1947, Ceylonese art historian and interpreter of Indian culture to the West

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The book also won the Association of Asian Studies Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy book prize.

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2024

Quoting the Dasa Dhamma Sutta, an early Buddhist text, Coomaraswamy adds: “Beauty is nothing to me, neither the beauty of the body nor that that comes of dress.”

From New York Times • May 11, 2020

Håvarstein, L. S., Coomaraswamy, G. & Morrison, D. A. An unmodified heptadecapeptide pheromone induces competence for genetic transformation in Streptococcus pneumoniae.

From Nature • Nov. 14, 2017

Radhika Coomaraswamy of Sri Lanka becomes the first special rapporteur on violence against women.

From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2017

The original in the collection of Dr. Ananda Coomaraswamy.

From Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna by Vidy?pati Th?kura