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Frithjof Schuon

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Gender Male
Death25 years ago
Date of birth June 18,1907
Zodiac sign Gemini
Born Basel
Switzerland
Date of died May 5,1998
DiedBloomington
Indiana
United States
Job Physician
Author
Philosopher
Current partner Catherine Schuon
School Traditionalist School
Influences René Guénon
Ibn Arabi
Plato
Meister Eckhart
Adi Shankara
Spouse Catherine Schuon
Influencee Titus Burckhardt
Ananda Coomaraswamy
Harry Oldmeadow
Thomas Merton
John Tavener
Joseph Epes Brown
Whitall Perry
InterestsMetaphysics
Esoterism
Philosophy
Spirituality
Religion
Art
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
ID635802

The transcendent unity of religions
Understanding Islam
Logic and Transcendence
Gnosis: Divine Wisdom
Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts: A New Translation with Selected Letters
Language of the Self
Sufism
To Have a Center
Stations of wisdom
The Transfiguration of Man
The Feathered Sun: Plains Indians in Art and Philosophy
The Fullness of God: Frithjof Schuon on Christianity
Survey of Metaphysics and Esoterism
Echoes of Perennial Wisdom: A New Translation with Selected Letters
Roots of the Human Condition
Art from the Sacred to the Profane: East and West
Esoterism as Principle and as Way
Treasures of Buddhism
Form and Substance in Religions
The Play of Masks
Prayer Fashions Man: Frithjof Schuon on the Spiritual Life
Adastra & Stella Maris: Poems
In the Face of the Absolute: A New Translation with Selected Letters
Light on the Ancient Worlds
Light on the Ancient Worlds: A New Translation with Selected Letters
From the Divine to the the Human: A New Translation with Selected Letters
The Essential Writings of Frithjof Schuon
World Wheel: Poems
Christianity/ Islam
Road to the Heart: Poems
Images of Primordial and Mystic Beauty: Paintings by Frithjof Schuon
Songs Without Names: Poems
In the tracks of Buddhism
Understanding Islam: A New Translation with Selected Letters
Autumn Leaves & the Ring: Poems
The Fullness of God
Frithjof Schuon: Messenger of the Perennial Philosophy
Islam and the perennial philosophy
Dimensions of Islam
To Have a Center: A New Translation with Selected Letters
Castes and Races
Primordial Meditation: Contemplating the Real
Splendor of the True: A Frithjof Schuon Reader
The Eye of the Heart: Metaphysics, Cosmology, Spiritual Life
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Frithjof Schuon Life story


Frithjof Schuon was a Swiss metaphysician of German descent, belonging to the Perennialist or Traditionalist School of thought. He was the author of more than twenty works in French on metaphysics, spirituality, religion, anthropology and art, which have been translated into English and many other languages.

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