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Currupumullage Jinarajadasa
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Theosophist
Place of birth
Date of arrival to Britain
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United Kingdom
Place of death
United States
About
Currupumullage Jinarajadasa was born of Buddhist parents in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1875. He was 'discovered' by Theosophist C. W. Leadbeater in 1889, who believed that Jinarajadasa was the reincarnation of his recently deceased younger brother and brought him to England.
Jinarajadasa, known as 'Raja' to friends, graduated in 1900 from St John's College, Cambridge, where he coxed the college eight. He married the British feminist Dorothy Graham in 1916.
Jinarajadasa travelled the world lecturing on behalf of the Theosophical Society. He became President of the Theosophical Society in 1945, resigned in 1952 and died in the US in 1953.
George Arundale, Annie Besant, Esther Bright, Dorothy Graham, Jiddu Krishnamurti, C. W. Leadbeater, Emily Lutyens, Jiddu Nityananda.
The Meeting of the East and the West (Madras: Theosophical Publishing House, 1921)
Seven Veils over Consciousness (Adyar: Theosophical Publishing House, 1952)
Bright, Esther, Old Memories and Letters of Annie Besant (London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1936)
Lutyens, Emily, Candles in The Sun (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957)
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© Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1930s – present
