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Charles Johnston, a Sanskrit scholar and translator of several Hindu classics, was a founder of the Dublin Lodge of the Theosophical Society of which William Butler Yeats and A.E. or Æ, as George William Russell was known, were also members. His wife Vera was a niece of H. P. Blavatsky. Charles and Vera were members of the Theosophical Society headed by Ernest Temple Hargrove in New York.

Writings

Mr. Johnston translated The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom by Śankarâchârya.[1]

Notes

  1. Sankaracharya, The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom (Vivekachudmani), translated by Charles Johnston, available at Theosophical University Press Online Edition [1]