Jiddu Krishnamurti

Jiddu Krishnamurti (May 12, 1895 Madanapalle, India–February 17, 1986 Ojai, California), often written as J. Krishnamurti, was discovered as a teenager by C.W. Leadbeater in India on the private beach at the Theosophical headquarters at Adyar in Chennai. He was subsequently raised by Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater within the world-wide organization of the Theosophical Society, who believed him to be a vehicle for a prophesied World Teacher (see Second Coming; Maitreya Buddha). As a young man, he disavowed this destiny and also dissolved the Order established to support it, and eventually spent the rest of his life travelling the world as an independent speaker and educator on the workings of the human mind. Age 90, he addressed the United Nations on the subject of peace and awareness, and was awarded the U.N. 1984 Peace Medal. He gave his last talk a month before his death, in January 1986, in India where he had been born.

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May 12 - 1895 - India - February 17 - 1986 - Ojai - California - C.W. Leadbeater - Adyar - Chennai - Annie Besant - Theosophical Society - Second Coming - Maitreya Buddha - January 1986

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His supporters, working through charitable trusts, founded several independent schools across the world—in India, England and the United States—and transcribed many of his thousands of talks, publishing them as educational philosophical books.

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