DAVID FRAWLEY

'David Frawley', or Vāmadeva Šāstrī ('वामदेव शास्त्री') is an author on Hinduism, Yoga and Ayurveda. He has worked extensively teaching, writing, lecturing, conducting research and helping establish schools and associations in related Vedic fields over the last thirty years. Frawley founded and is the director of the American Institute for Vedic Studies in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Through his institute, he offers courses on Yoga philosophy, Hindu astrology (jyotisha), and Ayurveda.

Contents

Biography

Notable works

Criticism

Partial bibliography

Notes

References

See also

External links

Frawley on Indian history

Biography

Frawley was born 1950 into a Catholic family in La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States. He was the second of ten children: the first and he and another were boys, the rest girls. He attended a Catholic school until he was about ten years old. After that he and his family moved to Denver, Colorado.
In 2000, he published his memoirs, ''How I Became a Hindu'', in which he details his own spiritual journey from his earlier Catholic upbringing to finally embracing Hinduism as his religion.

Notable works

In books like "The myth of the Aryan Invasion of India", he criticized racial interpretations of prehistoric Indian historiagraphy, such as the theory of a conflict between invading caucasoid Aryans and Dravidians.^[1]
With the book 'In Search of the Cradle of Civilization', Frawley gained public attention with his writings attacking the Aryan Invasion Theory. In an evaluation of linguistic and archeological evidence for or against the theory, Frawley stated that:
"There is no racial evidence of any such Indo-Aryan invasion of India but only of a continuity of the same group of people who traditionally considered themselves to be Aryans."^[2]
However, Martha Nussbaum notes that:

Criticism

An editorial by Michael E. J. Witzel, a professor of Sanskrit at Harvard, is critical of David Frawley on account of Frawley's weak knowledge of Sanskrit.^[3]. Frawley replied to this criticism in an article of his own.^[4]

Partial bibliography

★ ''Gods, Sages, and Kings'', Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-910261-37-7

★ ''From the River of Heaven'', Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-910261-38-5

★ ''Hinduism: The Eternal Tradition (Sanatana Dharma)'', Voice of India, New Delhi ISBN 81-85990-29-8

★ ''The Myth of the Aryan Invasion Theory'' online book, update, article

★ ''In Search of the Cradle of Civilization''

★ ''How I Became a Hindu''

★ ''The Rig Veda and the History of India'' ISBN 81-7742-039-9

★ ''Hinduism and the Clash of Civilizations''.

★ ''Yoga and Ayurveda'', Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-914955-81-0

★ ''Tantric Yoga'', Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-910261-39-3

★ ''Wisdom of the Ancient Seers'', Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-910261-36-9

★ ''Oracle of Rama'', Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-910261-35-0

★ ''Yoga and the Sacred Fire'', Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-940985-75-6

★ ''Ayurvedic Healing'', Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-914955-97-7

★ ''Ayurveda and Marma Therapy'', (with Ranade and Lele), Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-940985-59-4

★ ''Yoga for Your Type: Ayurvedic Guide to Your Asana Practice'', (with Summerfield-Kozak), Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-910261-30-X

★ ''Ayurveda: Nature's Medicine'', (with Ranade), Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-914955-95-0

★ ''Yoga of Herbs: Ayurvedic Guide to Herbal Medicine'', (with Lad), Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-941524-24-8

★ ''Ayurveda and the Mind'', Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-914955-36-5

★ ''Astrology of the Seers'', Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-914955-89-6

★ ''Ayurvedic Astrology'', Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-940985-88-8

Notes

1. Arvidsson 2006:298 Arvidsson, Stefan (2006), Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science, translated by Sonia Wichmann, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.
2. Frawley, David. http://www.stephen-knapp.com/solid_evidence_debunking_aryan_invasion.htm
3. A maritime Rigveda? How not to read ancient texts
4. Witzel's Vanishing Ocean: How to read Vedic texts any way you like

References

★ The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future, , Martha, Nussbaum, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007,

See also

★ Ayurveda

★ Koenraad Elst

★ Francois Gautier

★ Michel Danino

★ Girilal Jain

External links

★ David Frawley's homepage

★ Online books by David Frawley

★ Frawley and Deepak Chopra in Dialogue

★ Frawley: Reuniting Yoga and Ayurveda

★ US Publisher of books by David Frawley

★ Online version of Hinduism and the Clash of Civilizations

Frawley on Indian history

★ The Aryan-Dravidian Controversy Article by David Frawley

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★ Article by Kazanas (pdf)