Nicholas Kazanas

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Nicholas Kazanas is the director and a teacher of Yoga and Vedanta at the Omilos Meleton institute, which 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.He is a Sanskritist by training, and has taught Indic texts in England for several years. He has published in peer-reviewed international journals.

He was one of the few contributors in a special volume of the JIES on Indo-Aryan migration who argued against the concept.^[1] Kazanas' paper was criticized by five mainstream scholars, among them JP Mallory. In the latter issue of JIES, Kazanas responded to all his critics in the article ‘Final Reply’.^[1]

[edit] Publication

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.
The AIT and Scholarship, 2001
Kazanas, Nicholas: Rig Vedic Pur, 2004
Anatolian bull and Vedic horse in the Indo-European diffusion. 2005. Adyar Library Bulletin (2003)
Coherence and preservation in Sanskrit VVRI 2006
Diffusion of Indo-European Theonyms: what they show us. 2005 .Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society (Bangalore) Vol 97, No 1 (Jan-March 2006).
Vedic and Mesopotamian cross-influences. 2004 (Published in Migration & Diffusion (Vienna) 2005 and by the Adyar Library Bulletin (2006: Olcott commemorative issue). This was also incorporated in the study Vedic, Mesopotamian and Egyptian Religiophilosophical Thought (in print by PHISPC in the volume Chain of Golden Civilizations)
Vedic religio-philosophic thought. 2003
Advaita & Gnosticism. Published in VVRI Research Bulletin (Hoshiarpur) vol 2 (43-112), 2003.
'Greek Philosophy up to Aristotle' November 2003. PHISPC
Vedic and Egyptian Affinities.(2002, 2006 in Puratattva. Also incorporated in the study Vedic, Mesopotamian and Egyptian Religiophilosophical Thought (in print by PHISPC in the volume Chain of Golden Civilizations))
'Education & Ethics (presented at the New Delhi Conference organized by UNESCO and the Indian Ministry of Civilization on 'Dialogue among Civilizations: Quest for New Perspectives' 9-10th July 2003.)
Sanskrit and Proto-Indo-European'
'Philosophy in Hellenistic and Roman Times.'

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Indo-European Deities and the Rgveda JIES vol 29 (2001), 257-93; Indigenous Indoaryans and the Rgveda JIES vol 30 (2002), 275-334; Final Reply JIES vol 31 (2003), 187-240.