Indology

Koenraad Elst

Indology

b. 1959

"In the West, secularism implies pinpricking religious fraud and arrogance, but in India, secularists are the most eloquent defenders of myth and theocracy."

🇩🇪Michael Witzel

Education

b. 1943

"Poets such as Śamyu Bārhapatasya 6.45.1, some early Kaṇvas Early Ṛgvedic level."

🇩🇪Max Müller

Religion

1823–1900

"India must be conquered again, and that second conquest should be a conquest by education."

"For better is knowledge than constant practice; and than knowledge meditation is more excellent; than meditation, abandonment of the fruit of work; after abandonment, peace ensues."

"The theory and practice of the Tantric mandala operates on a mesocosmic level , that is, on the level of a mediating template between protocosm and metacosm as well as between macrocosm and microcosm."

"The most important shift, especially in South Asia, has been the rise to prominence of scholarship that returns not to Hegel but to Marx."