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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Yogeshananda, Swami (formerly Philip L. Griggs)
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- Philip Griggs
- Philip L. Griggs
- Swami Yogeshananda
- Swami Philip Griggs
- Griggs, Philip L.
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Description area
Dates of existence
1923-2021
History
Philip Griggs writes to Merton from Carmichael, California. He later joined the Ramakrishna Vedanta Center in London, England. Between his correspondence in 1965 and 1971, he had taken the name Swami Yogeshananda. He was in his later years the director of the Vedanta Center of Atlanta.
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Related entity
Griggs, Philip L.
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Category of relationship
temporal
Type of relationship
Griggs, Philip L. is the predecessor of Yogeshananda, Swami (formerly Philip L. Griggs)
Dates of relationship
Description of relationship
Philip Griggs changed his name to Swami Yogeshananda in the 1960s or early 1970s (changes his self-reference in Merton letters between 1965 and 1971).