note how even here, they only talk about buddhism, not hinduism

perhaps because a) they are in awe of china, which they see as the buddhist nation (we lost our soft power there, thanks partly to that idiot amartya sen being in charge of nalanda univ), b) they think they can 'handle' buddhism more easily, as they have done in south korea.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2131994-a-new-history-of-cultural-big-ideas-looks-to-the-east-for-solace/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&cmpid=SOC|NSNS|2017-Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1497222047

but the idea that the west's conception of a split between the rational and spiritual worlds is fundamentally flawed is welcome. semitism is just plain wrong.

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