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Mr. Johnston translated [[The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom (book)|''The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom'']] by [[Śankarâchârya]].<ref>Sankaracharya, ''The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom (Vivekachudmani)'',
Mr. Johnston translated [[The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom (book)|''The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom'']] by [[Śankarâchârya]].<ref>Sankaracharya, ''The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom (Vivekachudmani)'',
translated by Charles Johnston, available at Theosophical University Press Online Edition [http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/crest/crest-1.htm]</ref>
translated by Charles Johnston, available at Theosophical University Press Online Edition [http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/crest/crest-1.htm]</ref>
== Teaching ==
[[File:Charles Johnston advert|right|230px|thumb|Image from Boris de Zirkoff Papers, TSA Archives.]]
Charles Johnston advertised a Sanskrit course on the inside back cover of ''Theosophy'' magazine in September 1897. It mentions classes formed in New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Georgia, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Oregon, California, and Canada.<ref>"Sanskrit Revival" advertisement in ''Theosophy'' September 1897.</ref>


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
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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]

Teaching

File:Charles Johnston advert
Image from Boris de Zirkoff Papers, TSA Archives.

Charles Johnston advertised a Sanskrit course on the inside back cover of Theosophy magazine in September 1897. It mentions classes formed in New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Georgia, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Oregon, California, and Canada.[2]

Notes

  1. Sankaracharya, The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom (Vivekachudmani), translated by Charles Johnston, available at Theosophical University Press Online Edition [1]
  2. "Sanskrit Revival" advertisement in Theosophy September 1897.