Career
In 2000, his book How I Became a Hindu, Frawley details his move from a Catholic upbringing to embracing Hinduism. He learned Sanskrit from a Sanskrit grammar book and a copy of the Vedas in around 1970.
According to vedanet.com Frawley received a doctor's degree in Chinese medicine in 1987. He taught Chinese herbal medicine at the International Institute of Chinese Medicine from 1984-1990.
In 1991, under the auspices of the Hindu teacher Avadhuta Shastri, he was named Vamadeva Shastri, and he was the first American to receive the title of "Jyotish Kovid" from the Indian Council of Astrological Sciences (ICAS) in 1993.
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.
He works with multiple Ayurvedic institutions including: The Chopra Wellness Center in San Diego; The California College of Ayurveda (which he advised Marc Halpern during its formation; The Kripalu school of Yoga and Ayurveda; The National Ayurvedic Medical Association, which he has sat as advisor on since 2000.; and the California Association of Ayurvedic Medicine (CAAM).
In essays and books such as In Search of the Cradle of Civilization (1995), Frawley endorses the "Indigenous Aryans" scenario propagated in Hindu nationalism during the 1990s.
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