Edwin Bryant (author)

Edwin Bryant (author)

Edwin Francis Bryant is an American indologist. He received his Ph.D. in Indic languages and Cultures from Columbia University in 1997. He was a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of World Religion, Harvard University, from 1997-2000. In 2001 he was appointed associate professor of religion at Rutgers University, New Jersey, where he presently teaches Hindu religion and philosophy.

Edwin Bryant has received numerous awards and fellowships, published six books and authored a number of articles on Vedic history, yoga, and Krishna-bhakti tradition. He is an expert on Krishna tradition and has translated the story of Krishna from the Sanskrit Bhagavata Purana.

Bryant is the author of The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture (Oxford University Press, 2001). J. P. Mallory commented on this book: "Edwin Bryant's The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture ... systematically exposes the logical weaknesses of most of the arguments that support the consensus of either side. This is not only an important work in the field of Indo-Aryan studies but a long overdue challenge for scholarly fair play." In 2007 Bryant completed a translation of the Yoga Sutras and their traditional commentaries. The translation was published in 2009 by North Point Press as The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali (with Insights from the Traditional Commentators).