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Mar 25
Friday

Shastri Peter Conradi Elected to Royal Society of Literature

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By Acharya David Schneider

Peter Conradi has given family and friends—both inside Shambala and outside—an opportunity to practice sympathetic joy. Word arrived of his election as a Fellow of Britain’s prestigious Royal Society of Literature. This means that in referring to him, you could call him Professor Conradi, or Shastri Conradi, or you could go all out and refer to him as Shastri Professor Conradi FRSL, since his new Fellowship confers the privilege of using these letters after his name.

The Royal Society of Literature was founded in 1820 by King George IV, in order to “reward literary merit and excite literary talent.” There are at present about 500 Fellows including Antonia Fraser, Athol Fugard, Doris Lessing, V. S. Naipaul, Seamus Heaney, Margaret Drabble, Vikram Seth Zadie Smith, Rohinton Mistry, Iain Banks and Tom Stoppard. Past Fellows include Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Butler Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, George Bernard Shaw, Arthur Koestler and so on. At the ceremony of enrollment, a newly created Fellow inscribes his or her name on the official roll (which dates from 1820) using either Byron’s pen or Dickens’ quill. Peter plans to use the Dickens.

From a list of 70 nominees about 15 fellows are elected each year. These include novelists, short-story writers, poets, playwrights, biographers, historians, travel writers, literary critics and scriptwriters. All write in English and most are British, but authors outside of England are also represented. Conradi’s election to the Society on the first year of his nomination is entirely unusual, but it acknowledges a long devotion to English literature and European history, passions that Peter has uniquely woven into his Shambhala Buddhist practice and teaching. Continue…

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