Agehananda Bharati
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Agehananda Bharati
(1923-1991)
Scholar of Eastern religion and mysticism who was ordained as Acharya in Dashanami Mahavidyalaya, Benares, India, in 1951. Scholars in the West considered him an important interpreter of Hindu tradition, especially tantra. He became a professor and chair of the department of anthropology at Syracuse University, New York. He traveled throughout Thailand and Japan as a visiting professor and is the author of a number of scholarly but somewhat skeptical writings about Eastern mysticism. In 1974 he contributed an important paper on "Separate Realities: Sense and (Mostly) Nonsense in Parapsychology" to the Rhine-Swanton Interdisciplinary Symposium on Parapsychology and Anthropology. Bharati died in 1991.
Sources:
Bharati, Agehananda. The Light at the Center: Context and Pretext of Modern Mysticism. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Ross-Erickson, 1976.
——. The Ochre Robe. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1970.
——. "Separate Realities: Sense and (Mostly) Nonsense in Parapsychology." In Extrasensory Ecology: Parapsychology and Anthropology. Edited by Joseph K. Long. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1977.
——. The Tantric Tradition. London: Rider, 1965.
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Agehananda Bharati
Swāmī Agehānanda Bhāratī (अगेहानन्द भारती) (Vienna, April 20, 1923 – New York, May 14, 1991) was the monastic name of Leopold Fischer, professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University for over 30 years. He was an academic Sanskritist, a writer on religious subjects, and a Hindu monk in the Dasanami Sannyasi order.
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Works
- The Tantric Tradition. London : Rider, 1966.
- The Light at the Center: Context and Pretext of Modern Mysticism. Santa Barbara, CA : Ross-Erikson. 1976.
- The Ochre Robe : An Autobiography. Second Revised Edition, with New Epilog. Santa Barbara, CA : Ross-Erikson, 1980. ISBN 0-915520-28-1
External links
Biography
- Brief academic biography at the homepage of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
- Agehananda Bharati, 1923-1991 by Shauna Arth, 2003, the Anthropology Biography Web
Bibliography and book review
- Selected Publications of Prof. Agehananda Bharati at the homepage of the Maxwell School of Syracuse University
- Review of The Light at the Center by Brad Darrach, Time Magazine September 13, 1976
Articles available online
- Fictitious Tibet: The Origin and Persistence of Rampaism, an article published in Tibet Society Bulletin (Bloomington, Ind.), Vol. 7, 1974
- Excerpts from The Light at the Center on LSD and zero-experiences
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