Agehananda Bharati

Background

Bharati, Agehananda was born on April 20, 1923 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Hans and Margarete Helene (von May) Fischer. came to the United States, 1956, naturalized, 1968.

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Ethnology and Indology, Oriental Institute and Ethnological Institute, University Vienna, 1948. Acharya (Doctor of Philosophy), Samnyasa Mahavidyalaya, India, 1951.

Career

Growing up, he joined the Indian Club and began to study Hindi and classical Sanskrit, which led to his decision to become an Indologist. Agehananda Bharati"s travels were as extensive as his teachings were impressive. He was a professional expert in Cultural Anthropology, South Asian Studies, Linguistics, and Comparative Philosophy.

Most of these subjects he taught in Delhi University, Banaras Hindu University, and Nalanda Institute in India.

Bharati became a visiting professor on Indian philosophy in the University of Tokyo and Kyoto. In 1956 Bharati came to the United States. as a research associate for Washington University.

A year later he transferred to Syracuse and joined the anthropology faculty. He settled down in Syracuse and became Ford-Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies.

lieutenant wasn"t long before he became the chairman of his department.

He was granted United States. citizenship in 1968. Although he lived in Syracuse that didn"t mean that he stopped traveling. He managed to go to Hawaii, Britain, Michigan, Soviet Union, Germany, and Ireland for research and as a visiting professor

In his life, Agehananda Bharati was a warrior, a monk, a student, a teacher, an author, and a traveler.

By the time of his death Bharati had over 500 published works, including an autobiography called The Ochre Robe. Brief academic biography at the homepage of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs Shauna Arth (2003), Agehananda Bharati, 1923-1991 (Anthropology Web), archived from the original on June 3, 2010.

Achievements

• Agehananda Bharati has been listed as a noteworthy anthropologist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Light at the Center: Context and Pretext of Modern Mysticism

    (The Light at the Center: Context and Pretext of Modern My...)

  • The light at the center : context and pretext of modern mysticism

    (The light at the center : context and pretext of modern m...)

  • A functional analysis of Indian thought and its social margins (The Chowkhamba Sanskrit studies)

    (Discussion of Indian philosophy, religion and semantics.)

  • The Ochre Robe: An Autobiography

    (Ross-Erikson Publishers Inc.,U.S., Santa Barbara, CA, 198...)

  • Asians in East Africa: Jayhind and Uhuru (Professional-technical series)

    (Book by Bharati, Agehananda)

  • Hindu Views and Ways and the Hindu-Muslim Interface: An Anthropological Assessment

    (Book by Agehananda Bharati)

  • Great Tradition and Little Traditions: Indological Investigations in Cultural Anthropology (Chowkhamba Sanskrit Studies, Vol. XCVI)
  • The Ochre Robe
  • Asians in East Africa: Jayhind and Uhuru (Professional-technical series) 1st edition by Bharati, Agehananda (1972) Hardcover
  • Functional Analysis of Indian Thought and Its Social Margins
  • The Ochre Robe
  • The Tibet Society Bulletin Volume 12 (1978)
  • The Tibet Society Bulletin (Volume 8 1974)
  • Tantric Traditions
  • The Light at the Center: Context and Pretext of Modern Mysticism by Agehananda Bharati (1976-04-03)
  • The Tibet Society Bulletin (Volume 9 1975)
  • The Tibet Society Bulletin Volume 11 (1977)

Membership

Bharati had become a member of numerous organizations including: American Association of University Professors, American Anthropological Association(fellow), Association for Applied Anthropology(fellow), American Linguistic Society, International Association for General Semantics, Mensa International, Mind Association, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Philosophical Society, Royal Siam Society, International Academy of Human Rights, and New York Academy of Sciences.

Connections

Father:

Hans Fischer

Mother:

Margarete Helene (von May) Fischer