# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vishnudevananda-saraswati
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:43:11.667Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vishnudevananda-saraswati"
name: "Vishnudevananda Saraswati"
slug: "vishnudevananda-saraswati"
description: "Vishnudevananda Saraswati was an Indian yoga guru known for his teaching of asanas, a disciple of Sivananda Saraswati, and founder of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres and Ashrams (ISYVC). He established the Sivananda Yoga Teachers' Training Course, possibly the first yoga teacher training programs in the West. His books The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga (1960) and Meditation and Mantras (1978) established him as an authority on Hatha and Raja yoga. Vishnudevananda was a peace activist who rode in several \"peace flights\" over places of conflict, including the Berlin Wall prior to German reunification."
tagline: "Indian author, peace activist, founder of a multinational network of yoga centers"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Swamiji_Classic_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
birthDate: "1927-12-31"
deathDate: "1993-11-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.78441733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump