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Musings : The Tibetan Issue
I’ve been increasingly thoughtful about it and have been occasionally compelled to remark about it on Twitter. Naturally, it’s me … how I see it, as opposed to how the Dalai Lame assesses. It’s his...
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Journal : Being Different
This is to introduce Rajive Malhotra’s recent work ” Being Different.” Source : https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9jySISONeKibTItNU51QU52RkE/edit?pli=1 In the course of it, I would also adapt from...
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Journal : Beauty, The Quest
ALTAI-HIMALAYA A Travel Diary By Nicholas Roerich [ Published by Claude Bragdon ] Part I : INDIA (1924) Siani glides by. Here are the Wells of Abraham. Here are the “Twelve Apostles”—fantastic little...
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ALTAI-HIMALAYA A Travel Diary By Nicholas Roerich [ Published by Claude Bragdon ] Part II : INDIA (1924) In the very backyard, in a tiny bed of meager flowers, rests a small homely image of Ganeshi,...
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India Travelogue From A Century Ago …
ALTAI-HIMALAYA A Travel Diary By Nicholas Roerich [ Published by Claude Bragdon ] Part III : INDIA (1924) The Tibetan tailor is making kaftans. He takes all measurements with his eye, but most...
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Journal : Pilgrim’s Quest
ALTAI-HIMALAYA A Travel Diary By Nicholas Roerich [ Published by Claude Bragdon ] Part IV : INDIA (1924) SIKKIM : evokingly and sharply the arrows whistle across the gulley, from out the bamboo grove....
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Journal : Spirit In The Eye
ALTAI-HIMALAYA A Travel Diary By Nicholas Roerich [ Published by Claude Bragdon ] Part V : INDIA (1924) The motley figures of hell are being trampled down by the powerful feet of the White Guards....
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ALTAI-HIMALAYA A Travel Diary By Nicholas Roerich [ Published by Claude Bragdon ] Part VI : INDIA (1924) Before the New Year, the evil entities are destroyed by conjurations and dances. In the Dance...
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Journal : Integrated People
ALTAI-HIMALAYA A Travel Diary By Nicholas Roerich [ Published by Claude Bragdon ] Part VII : INDIA (1924) In the first full moon after New Year, which fell this year on the twentieth of February, there...
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Journal : Legend And Conjuration
ALTAI-HIMALAYA A Travel Diary By Nicholas Roerich [ Published by Claude Bragdon ] Part VIII : INDIA (1924) Are the inhabitants of Sikhim poor ? Where there are no riches there is no poverty. The people...
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Indian History And Its Historians
Part III : WHO WAS RULING IN INDIA DURING THE VISIT OF MEGASTHENES In order to examine these hypotheses we must digress to the characterisation of Megasthenes by Greek historians such as Arrian,...
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Indian History And Its Historians
Coin of the Gupta king Chandragupta II Part IV : Who Ruled North India During Megasthenes’ Visit ? (contd) According to Puranic evidence, there had expired 1500 odd years after Parikshit, when...
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Indian History And Its Historians
Portrait of Srimushnam Vyakarna Subbaravacharya (+1837) a reknown sanskrit scholar Part V : British Colonial Indology (1780 CE – 2000 CE) In reality this field of study was dominated by German...
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The Buddhist Fallacy
Though occasioned by a few conversations I had on social media, the topic has been with me for about two decades now : the fallacy in Buddhist thought, if one is looking for truth. For our world of...
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MATTER TO CONSCIOUSNESS
Sarva Darshana Sangraha by Madhava Vidyaranya, Chief Of Sringeri Math and Author Of Panchadasi 14th Century AD. A compendium of all thought and 16 belief – systems that men have lived with over...
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MATTER TO CONSCIOUSNESS
Jain tirthankaras Rishabha (left) and Mahavira (right). Sarva Darshana Sangraha by Madhava Vidyaranya, Chief Of Sringeri Math and Author Of Panchadasi 14th Century AD. A compendium of all thought and...
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A Word To Us – In India
In conversation … I have the highest of regard for my elder and friend, Sh Basudeb Sen, a learned soul, a tall human being and an independent director for decades. We have agreed on much and differed...
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Light, Beauty And Truth.
ALTAI-HIMALAYA A Travel Diary By Nicholas Roerich [ Published by Claude Bragdon ] Part IX : INDIA (1924) In the twilight under the flowing stars, in the purple sheen of the mist, sounds the soft voice...
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Beauty Of The Quest
ALTAI-HIMALAYA A Travel Diary By Nicholas Roerich [ Published by Claude Bragdon ] Part X : INDIA (1924) The Talmud relates that the dove brought the first olive branch to Noah from Mount Moriah. And...
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Tibet ! Tibet !
Remembering The Heaven It Was … Now trampled, exploited and displaced beyond repair. With Occupation. Cultural Genocide. Brutality. By Guns, monochromatically greedy Han Chinese … Tibet Tibetan...
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