Agehananda Bharati

Agehananda Bharati (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.

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