Nicholas Kazanas

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Nicholas Kazanas is an Indologist and Sanskritist. He is the director of the Omilos Meleton. He taught Indology in England.

He is currently a teacher of Yoga and Vedanta at his institute. The institue Omilos Meleton was founded in 1976. It focuses on Philosophy (Platonism, Vedanta, Christian and Buddhist ethics). The Institute also offers courses in Sanskrit, Comparative Mythology and Political Economy.

[edit] Partial list of publications

The AIT and Scholarship, 2001
Kazanas, Nicholas: Rig Vedic Pur, 2004
Kazanas, Nicholas (2002). "Rigvedic town and ocean: Witzel vs Frawley".
N. Kazanas, A new date for the Rgveda Philosophy and Chronology, (2000) ed. G C Pande & D Krishna, special issue of Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research (June, 2001)
Advaita & Gnosticism, VVRI Research Bulletin (Hoshiarpur) vol 2 (43-112), 2003.
1999 ‘The Rigveda and IndoEuropeans’ Annals Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, vol 80 (pp 15-42).
2001b ‘Archaic Greece and the Veda’ in ABORI, vol 82, in press.
2001b ‘IndoEuropean Deities and the Rgveda’ Journal of Indo-European Studies vol 29, 257-93.
2002 ‘Indigenous Indoaryans and the Rgveda’ JIES vol 30 (275-334).
2003 ‘Final Reply’ in Journal of Indo-European Studies vol 31, 1-2 Spring/Summer(187-240).
2004 ‘Plato and the Upaniṣads’ in Brahmavidyā: Adyar Library Bulletin.
2005 ‘Philosophy and Self-realization in the Ṛgveda’ Self Society and Science... ed D.P. Chattopadhyaya, PHISPC vol XI, pt2 (21-42), N. Delhi, Centre for Studies in Civilization.