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Most details below are from Mary Lutyens' 1990 "K: his life and death"
mbb = Washington's Madame Blavatsky's Baboon
1831: Helena P Blavatsky born [bio&pic]
1847: Annie Besant born [bio&pic] ditto
1854 (1847?): CW Leadbeater born [mbb115] [bio&pic] ditto books
1875: Blavatsky founds Theosophical Society [history]
1878: CWL ordained in Anglican church, curate at Bramshott [mbb116] joins secret 'Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament'
1882: TS headquarters moved to Adyar, Madras, India
1883: Leadbeater joins TS, impressed by Sinnett [mbb116] attends Eglinton's seances
1884: Dec: CWL resigns curacy, travels to India with HPB and HSO [mbb117]
1886-1889: CWL edits 'The Buddhist' in Ceylon [mbb117]
1889: CWL takes 'handsome boy' Jinarajadasa to England [mbb118] tutors George Arundale and Sinnett's son
1889: Besant joins TS
1889: Blavatsky tells students that the purpose of Theosophy is to prepare humanity for the coming of the Lord Maitreya, the World Teacher for the Aquarian Age [context]
1890: CWL meets Besant [mbb118]
1891: Blavatsky dies
1894: CWL begins past-lives research [mbb120]
1895: CWL and Jinarajadasa move in to Besant's London house [mbb119]
1895: Jiddu Krishnamurti born May 12 in Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh, India [horoscope]
(eighth child of high-caste Brahmin family, Jiddu or Jeddu was the family name, father member of TS)
1898: brother Nityananda born
1902: James Joyce offers himself to Theosophist George 'AE' Russell as possible Irish Messiah [more]
1902: CWL establishes Lotus Lodge (and journal) for theosophical youth [mbb121]
1902: 41yo Rudolf Steiner takes over German TS [mbb152]
1905: K's mother dies
1906: Leadbeater designates 11yo Hubert van Hook of Chicago as future World Teacher
1906: CW Leadbeater forced to resign from Theosophical Society for teaching masturbation [mbb121]
"My own darling boy... Twice a week is permissible, but you will soon discover what brings the best effect... Spontaneous manifestations are undesirable and should be discouraged. If it comes without help he needs rubbing more often, but not too often, or he will not come well... Glad sensation is so pleasant. Thousand kisses darling..." [coded letter from CWL discovered by hotel cleaner]
1907: May: Steiner hosts TS congress in Munich with controversial neo-Christian, Rosicrucian, western-esoteric emphasis [mbb154]
1907: Besant elected president of TS on death of Olcott
1907: compulsory retirement of K's father, who volunteers to work for TS at Adyar
1909: 23Jan: Jiddu family moves to Chennai, India. K attends Penathoor Subramanyam High School at Mylapore, Madras [map]
1909 (1907?): Leadbeater readmitted to the T.S. "used K. as a ruse to deflect attention from his past misdeeds and to give him an excuse to surround himself with small boys" [cite]
1909: Feb: CWL returns to Adyar [mbb128] Besant leaves him in charge when she goes to London
1909: May: at Adyar, India, Leadbeater judges 13yo K's aura to be completely free of selfishness, his past lives 'better... than Hubert'; K given mystical name 'Alcyone' [mbb128] [Adyar pix now] [map]
K on his youth: "The boy was affectionate, vacant, not intellectual, enjoyed athletic games. What is important in this is the vacant mind." [cite]
K was 'an underfed, scrawny and dirty teenager... considered dim-witted` [cite]
no-date: CWL slaps K for inattention [mbb130]
1909: Nov: Besant returns to Adyar [mbb131]
1909: Nov: 14yo Hubert van Hook arrives at Adyar with mother [mbb127]
1910: 11Jan: K has vision of Lord Maitreya under Leadbeater's guidance
1910: Mar: K adopted by Besant and Leadbeater
[account] [account] comment analysis
1910: meets Young Indiana Jones [timeline]
1910: March: K's father sees CWL "committing an unnatural offence" with K, threatens to take him back, repeatedly promised (falsely) that CWL will be kept away from K [cite]
1910: Besant founds Yellow Shawl Group, with Purple Order (K as head) [mbb132]
1910: Dec: book At the Feet of the Master published under 'Alcyone' name [mbb130]
1911: Order of the Star in the East (first Order of the Rising Sun) founded with K as its head to proclaim the coming of the World Teacher [mbb132]
1911: May: London, England; meets 36yo Lady Emily Lutyens: 10 years of schooling in England; 6yrs of stomach pain from special diet (lots of dairy)
1911: 28 December: Leadbeater's mystical experience w/K [account]
1912: K's father takes legal action against Besant [court report] charges include deification and sodomy [mbb134]
1912? Steiner forbids Order of the Star in Germany, suggests Besant resign [mbb154]
1913: Besant sues journalist for defamation wrt CWL [court record]
the newspaper claimed CWL taught the boys masturbation
1913: Feb: Steiner breaks away in disgust and forms Anthroposophy [bio&pic]
1913: 35yo Ouspensky and Keyserling visit Adyar [mbb162]
1913: Oct: wealthy TS member sets up trust fund for K of £500/yr for life
1913: CWL discovers 13yo Rajagopal [mbb207]
1913-1914: Tingley encourages Joseph Fussell to write two pamphlets denouncing Besant and CWL [mbb220]
1914: CWL moves from Adyar to Australia [mbb139]
1914: K acquires partiality for golf, motorbikes
1916: K acquires partiality for expensive suits
shoes from Lobb, suits from Meyer & Mortimer, shirts from Beale & Inman, ties from Liberty, haircuts from Trumper's [mbb137]
1916: CWL becomes bishop in Wedgwood's new Liberal Catholic Church e[mbb141]
1917: K fails to get into Cambridge U [passim]
1918: K rides bus daily to London U lectures
1919: K fond of Wodehouse novels
1919: 24yo Hubert van Hook accuses CWL of fraud and pederasty [mbb221]
1920: K flunks out of University for last time
1920: Rajagopal moves to London, successful at Cambridge [mbb207]
[dates below from K chronology]
no-date: K reportedly uses fainting spells as excuse to fondle female friends
no-date: George Arundale scandalously marries Indian girl [mbb266]
1920: Paris
1921: Varanasi, India. (Order has 30k members)
1921: May: TH Martyn's letter to Besant accuses CWL and Wedgwood of fraud and sodomy, letter leaked and published [mbb222]
1922: Australian TS splits over question of CWL [mbb223]
1922: California [Ojai] beginning of 'the process' [crisis] more
1923: travel and speaking in USA
1923-31: writes about 60 poems
1924: Holland and India
1924: K's father dies
1925: Los Angeles, India
1925: Arundale (w/Wedgwood) makes power-grab in opposition to K [mbb268]
1925: 13Nov: brother Nityananda dies unexpectedly [cite-Spanish]
1925: 28Dec: K switches to "I" speaking of World Teacher [account]
no-date: [pic]
no-date: Rajagopal assumes role of K's manager [mbb276]
1926: Hollywood offers K movie role as Buddha at $5000/week [mbb276]
1926: 27Jul: Lord Maitreya again speaks thru K at Ommen [mbb272] Wedgwood claims actually a Black Magician
1926: India, Holland, San Francisco, Los Angeles (Order has 43k members)
1927: Hollywood, London, Paris, Holland, India
1927: 9 Feb: letter from K to CWL: [cite]
"I know my destiny and my work. I know with certainty and knowledge of my own, that I am blending into the consciousness of the one Teacher and that He will completely fill me."
1927: spring: Besant announces "The World Teacher is here." [mbb274]
1927: 12Jul: K proclaims "I am the Teacher. I have entered into the flame-- I am the flame, I have united the source and the goal." [mbb274]
1927: 2 Aug: K says publicly:[cite]
"I never said: I am the World Teacher; but now that I feel I am one with my Beloved, I say it."
1927: CWL says privately that "The Coming had gone wrong." [cite]
1927: Rajagopal marries Rosalind Wiliams [mbb277]
1928: TS memberships peaks at 45,000 [mbb139]
1928: India, Paris, Holland, New York, Ojai CA, London, Paris, Holland, India [speeches]
1928: founds Rajghat Education Centre [cite]
1929 India, Holland, London, Ojai, Los Angeles, Holland, India
1929: On August 2, 1929, the opening day of the annual Star Camp at Ommen, Holland, Krishnamurti dissolved the Order before 3000 members. full text of the talk he gave on that occasion. [etext] [pic]
1930: India, Trieste Italy, Holland, NYC, Boston, California, Seattle, Philadelphia, Eddington PA, Holland, Austria, Switzerland
1930: crisis in TS [info]
1930s: K lives with Rajagopal and Rosalind, acts as second father to daughter Radha [mbb277]
1931: Holland, London, Edinburgh Scotland, Germany, Austria, Holland
1932: Ojai, Hollywood, Portland OR, Seattle WA, Canada, Auburndale MA, Eddington PA, Rochester NY, Cleveland OH, Chicago, Minneapolis MN, St. Paul MN, Kansas City MS, San Antoni, TX, Birmingham AL, Atlanta GA, Canada, NYC Paris, India
1932: [critique]
1932-57: love affair with Mrs. Rosalind Rajagopal, pregnancy (-cies?) terminated [cite]
1930s-40s: visited in California by Stravinsky, Brecht, Thomas Mann, Bertrand Russell, Frieda Lawrence, and Greta Garbo (who "made a rare venture into the open air, to join Krishnamurti on a picnic. They were seated together but, as Isherwood - who was also present - noted, 'they didn't speak much. I think they were both scared'"). [cite]
1933: early: last visit of K to Besant [mbb280]
1933: 20Sep: death of Annie Besant [mbb280]
1933: India, Pakistan, Greece, Italy, Holland, Norway, India
1934: 01Mar: death of CWL [mbb280]
1934: India, Sri Lanka, Australia, New Zealand, Ojai
K to Emily Lutyens: "I have never denied being the W.T. (World Teacher). You know, mum, I have never denied it. I have only said that it does not matter who or what I am..." [cite]
1935: death of Katherine Tingley in car crash [mbb280]
1935: Los Angeles, Chicago, NYC, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Mexico
1936: Ojai, NYC, Eddington PA, Holland, India (weighs 112 lbs)
1937: India, Italy, Holland
1938: Holland, India, Pakistan (befriended by 43yo Aldous Huxley and 48yo Gerald Heard)
1939: India, Sri Lanka, Australia, New Zealand
1939? Hodson memoir
no-date: K meets Gandhi but is not impressed
1940: Ojai, Eddington PA
1941-1946: lived in Ojai; Huxley encourages him to begin 'Commentaries on Living' series
1944: K attends LA class by 51yo Swami Prabhavananda [mbb326]
1946: Ojai school opens; serious kidney infection
1947: Ojai, India
1948: India (mystical process)
1949: India, Ojai, London, India, Sri Lanka
1950: Sri Lanka, India, Paris, NYC, Seattle WA
1952: India, London, Ojai, India
1953: India, London, Ojai, Italy, India
1954: India, Greece, NYC, Ojai, India
1955: India, Holland, London, Ojai, Australia, India
1956: India, Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Greece, India
1957: Sri Lanka, India
1958: India
1959: India [talks]
1959: physicist David Bohm reads K [info]
1960: India. Ojai, India
1961: India, London, Switzerland, Paris, India
1962: India, London, Switzerland
1963: London, Switzerland, India
1964: India, Rome, London, Paris,Switzerland, India
1965: India, Rome, London, Paris, Switzerland, Rome, India
1966: India, Rome, London, Paris, Switzerland, NYC, Ojai, India
1967: India, Rome, Paris, Holland, Switzerland, London, Rome, India
1968: India, Rome, Paris, Holland, Switzerland, Puerto Rico, NYC, Waltham MA, Claremont CA, Malibu CA
1968-86: lawsuits against Rajagopal motivated by fear of exposure? [cite]
1969: California, London,Paris,Holland, Brockwood Park, Switzerland, Rome, India
1970: India, Brockwood Park, California, Brockwood Park, London, Switzerland, Brockwood Park, Italy, Australia, India
1971: India, California, NYC Brockwood Park Amsterdam, Holland Saanen, Switzerland Brockwood Park Rome, Italy
1972: California, NYC Brockwood Park Saanen, Switzerland Brockwood Park Rome, Italy, India
1973: India, Brockwood Park San Francisco, CA, Ojai Brockwood Park Saanen, Switzerland Brockwood Park Rome, Italy, India
1974: India, Brockwood Park California, Ojai NYC Brockwood Park Saanen, Switzerland Brockwood Park, India [account]
1975: India, California, NYC Brockwood Park Saanen, Switzerland Brockwood Park Ojai
1975: May: K tells Mary Lutyens "...the Lord is here" [cite]
1975: Elizabeth Clare Prophet channels repudiation of K by Great White Brotherhood [cite]
1976: Ojai NYC Brockwood Park Saanen, Switzerland Brockwood Park, India
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1977: India, Brockwood Park Ojai NYC Saanen, Switzerland Brockwood Park, India
1978: India, Brockwood Park Ojai Wolf Lake, Vancouver, Canada, Brockwood Park Saanen, Switzerland Brockwood Park, India
1979: India India Ojai Brockwood Park Saanen, Switzerland Brockwood Park, India
1980: India, Ojai Wolf Lake, Vancouver, Canada, Brockwood Park, Switzerland, Brockwood Park, India, Sri Lanka, India
1981: India, Los Angeles, Ojai, Brockwood Park, Switzerland, Brockwood Park, Holland, India
1982: India, Brockwood Park, NYC, Ojai, London, Brockwood Park, Switzerland Brockwood Park, India
1983: India, Ojai, NYC, California, Brockwood Park, Switzerland, Brockwood Park, India
1983: 23 Apr: quote
1984: India, Brockwood Park, Ojai, San Francisco, Los Alamos NM, NYC, San Francisco, Brockwood Park, Switzerland, Brockwood Park, India
1985: India, Ojai, NYC, Washington DC, Ojai, Brockwood Park, Switzerland, Brockwood Park, India
?: 'Towards the end of his life, the philosopher and teacher J. Krishnamurti enjoyed having sections from Christopher Alexander's The Timeless Way of Building read to him each evening.' [cite]
1986 India, Ojai
1986: Feb: treatment with morphine; last tape [info]
1986: 17 Feb: J.Krishnamurti dies at Ojai
2000: video series in Stockholm [info]
these three are my faves, short vignettes written with great poetry [quotes]
a selection of chapters from the earlier books "The
First and Last Freedom", "Life Ahead" and "This Matter of Culture".
talks and discussions in London, Amsterdam, Paris and Switzerland in 1969
individual conversations with Jacob Needleman, Alan Naude, Swami Venkatesananda and David Bohm
talks held in India with students and teachers of the Rishi Valley and Rajghat Schools
For seven months in 1961 and 1962, J. Krishnamurti kept a daily record of his perceptions and states of consciousness. The result is a kind of diary but one which is little concerned with the day to day process of living.
personal reflections from 1973 to 1975
talks given in India, England, Switzerland and the United States in 1981 and 1982
discussion with David Bohm excerpt
with Mark Edwards' photographs
Krishnamurti's last talks in India from
November 1985 to January 1986
dialogues with David Bohm
spoken into a tape-recorder while alone at Pine Cottage in the Ojai Valley, California in 1984
discussions with teachers at Brockwood Park in September 1976
Biographies: [review]
Mary Lutyens, "Krishnamurti - The Years of Awakening" (John Murray: London, 1975) [Amazon]
Mary Lutyens, "Krishnamurti - The Years of Fulfilment" (John Murray: London, 1983)
Mary Lutyens, "Krishnamurti - The Open Door" (John Murray: London, 1987)
Mary Lutyens, "Life and Death of Krishnamurti" [Amazon]
Pupul Jayakar, "J. Krishnamurti: A Biography" (Harper and Row Inc., USA 1986)
Stuart Holroyd, "Krishnamurti - The Man, the Mystery and the Message" (Element: ,1991)
Radha Rajagopal Sloss "Lives in the Shadows with J Krishnamurti" . London: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd, 1991 (gossipy) [info]
above answered in "Krishnamurti and the Rajagopals" by Mary Lutyens. Ojai, Calif. Krishnamurti Foundation of America, c1996
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