Coomaraswamy is not the only one; many Indian scholars obtain their qualifications elsewhere – in the case of Hinduism students their prime choice of destination is usually
Regarding the ‘Aryan’ content of Hindu’s in general there are two distinct types – those who think they are the Aryans, and those who wish to remove all trace of foreigners from their soil. Not surprisingly this is usually tied to their own geographic locations, as I am sure you are already aware.
evola_as_he_is <evola_as_he_is@...> wrote:
We are then assured that "it took a top-ranking scholar genuinely
rooted in a genuine tradition, the Brahmin art historian and
philosopher Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, to correct the deviations of
the Western enthusiasts of "Tradition"." We leave you to judge for
yourselves whether an Hindu who studied and graduated in the poshest
Anglo-Saxon schools and spent most of his life in the West, and who
managed to write a book on Hinduism and Buddhism without ever
referring to the Aryan content of those 'religions', focusing
exclusively, instead, on the Hindu teachings which can be connected
with the Judeo-Christian's according to one of the dogmas of
the 'traditionalist' school, can be considered as a man "genuinely
rooted in a genuine tradition."
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