Light with No Shadow: My Life Bridging Two Cultures - Hardcover

Doshi, Navin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1504354729 ISBN 13: 9781504354721

Verlag: Balboa Press, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Navin's gripping account of our times and culture is marked by a sincere wish to heal and a remarkable capacity to balance compassion and criticality.

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Navin Doshi, a retired aerospace engineer, an octogenarian, is involved currently in managing multiple asset class investments, and also in philanthropic work. As a long time student of Indian philosophy, specifically in Vedic tradition, he observes recent events in the light of Purusha (eternal unchanging consciousness) and Prakriti (Nature, dynamic and unpredictable): "Nature's nature is to create pairs of opposites in every aspect of human existence. One must learn to discover the middle path (Buddha's Madhyamika), bridging two opposites; then bring balance and harmony by complementing the opposites for transcendence and immanence".Doshi came to United States in 1958 for higher studies in science and engineering, receiving a second Bachelor and a Master degrees fromUniversity of Michigan. Carrying on postgraduate studies at UCLA, he worked as an aerospace engineer receiving US patents and NASAawards. He became a successful businessman, and a trader/ investor starting from the 1980s to the present. Doshi, with his wife, Pratima,endowed chairs at UCLA, and IIT Gandhi Nagar in India starting from the year 2000. They also endowed a professorship along with the annual Bridge Builder award program in the year 2005 at Loyola Marymount University. Another professorship in consciousness studies was endowed in 2012 at California Institute of Integral Studies. The latest endowment this year (2021), known as Doshi Center for Integrative Medicine, was established in Los Angeles for Maharishi International University (MIU). Recipient of numerous honors in India and USA including the highest honor, the degree of Doctor of World Peace Honoris Causa from MIU,Doshi has authored several books including Economics and Nature, Transcendence-Saving us From Ourselves, and Gold-Incarnate Sun God. South Asia Studies Association (SASA), a non-profit organization of scholars of South Asia has published a book, Bridging Cultures, a felicitation volume to celebrate the life and work of Navin Doshi. More information is available on the Wikipedia web site, and books are available at Amazon.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Balboa Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1504354729
• ISBN 13: 9781504354721
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 396
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