$16.00, $13.60  Online Price
ISBN 13: 978-1-931816-00-7
204 main text, 216 total pages
9"x6" (Quality paperback)

Contact: Anna Hourihan
Tel: (530) 549-4757
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Small Publisher Wins Best Spiritual Book Award for First Title

Vedantic Shores Press has won the Best Spiritual Book Award for its first title, Ramakrishna and Christ, The Supermystics: New Interpretations by Paul Hourihan. The award was presented by the Sacramento Publishers and Authors Association at their Annual Book Awards and Conference on April 5, 2003. Anna Hourihan, who is publishing the works of her late husband Paul Hourihan under the imprint of Vedantic Shores Press, accepted the award.

Ramakrishna and Christ, The Supermystics is t he first in-depth study to compare the lives and spiritual teachings of Ramakrishna, the great saint of nineteenth-century India, and Jesus Christ.

Hourihan provides a compelling introduction for Westerners to Ramakrishna's life and its significance for today's world. He also allows us to see Christ in a new way by interpreting his life from the standpoint of India's yoga traditions.

This timely work provides a much-needed unifying message of the truth that forms the basis of all enduring faiths.

The author, Paul Hourihan, was born and educated in Boston where he earned a degree from Harvard, and a doctorate in English literature from Boston University. For 15 years he taught dozens of courses and gave innumerable lectures in Ontario, Canada on the subject of great mystics and mysticism. Hourihan, committed to the spiritual path for over 45 years and a close student of India's Vedantic philosophy, and the teachings of her greatest seers, is an appropriate interpreter and biographer of Ramakrishna, India's foremost mystic for many centuries.

Ramakrishna and Christ, The Supermystics is available from Vedantic Shores Press. It can be ordered securely online or by telephone toll-free at (866) 549-4757. It can also be ordered from your favorite bookstore. Our distributors to booksellers and libraries are: Baker & Taylor Books, New Leaf Distributing, Brodart and DeVorrs. More information on this title can be obtained from clicking on the above link or by calling (530) 549-4757, or toll-free at (866) 549-4757 (in U.S. only). The retail price is $16.00 U.S.

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Ramakrishna and Christ, The Supermystics, New Interpretations by Paul Hourihan. Original edition, 6" x 9", 216 pages, (Trade Paper).  ISBN: 1-931816-00-X, LCCN: 2001097125,  $16.00 U.S. Publication Date: May 2002.