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The Ramakrishna debate, continued 18 Aug 2013 | 07:28 pm
The debate on the Ramakrishna Mission’s claim that Ramakrishna, the 19th-century Kali priest, also practiced Christianity and Islam, and that he distanced himself from Hinduism to found a new universa...
Did Ramakrishna practice other religions? 18 Aug 2013 | 02:43 am
The central argument of the RK Mission for its non-Hindu character was that, unlike Hinduism, it upheld the ‘equal truth of all religions’ and the ‘equal respect for all religions’. The latter ...
When did the Buddha break away from Hinduism? 8 Aug 2013 | 07:11 pm
Orientalists have started treating Buddhism as a separate religion because they discovered it outside India, without any conspicuous link with India, where Buddhism was not in evidence. At fi...
An Indo-European Conference 2 Aug 2013 | 06:23 pm
The Indogermanische Gesellschaft organizes a conference every year. It must be one of the few international conferences where German is still spoken, along with English. I don’t know why I had neve...
God in India 2 Aug 2013 | 01:30 am
Dr. Joris Gielen studied History, Science of Religion and Theology at the Catholic University of Leuven and also obtained the MA in Indian Philosophy and Religion at Banaras Hindu University. So, w...
Gandhi and Mandela 19 Jul 2013 | 01:48 am
Now that Nelson Mandela is leaving the stage, we can take stock of his role in history. His name will remain associated with two major turnarounds: the conversion of the nonviolent African National Co...
Yoga is not religious 11 Jul 2013 | 12:24 am
Yoga is Hindu, but it is not religious. When Hindus go deep into the issues raised by the court verdict, they are bound to encounter some problems with their own tradition. In my opinion, Christia...
Leonhard Euler 8 Jul 2013 | 10:21 pm
Ghent University organizes all these interesting events. Just now, I have returned from a conference on Leonhard Euler, the 18th-century mathematician and physicist. Enlightenment philosophy and th...
Is yoga Hindu? The court verdict 8 Jul 2013 | 10:16 pm
A county judge in San Diego CA has ruled that yoga is not always religious (Washington Post, 2 July 2013). Parents in a San Diego school district had complained that yoga is intrinsically intertwin...
Stalked by a "John Hopkins" 7 Jul 2013 | 11:35 pm
(Browsing through my extant articles in the computer, I ran into an unpublished testimony I jotted down in early May 2006. The Ayub Khan referred to as criticizing me has been answered in a chapter of...
