I Eliot Deutsch’s ‘reconstruction’ of Advaita Vedanta makes an inital claim of seeking “to approach Asian philosophy as material for creative thought” (Deutsch 1969, Preface) while recognising its status as “a religion as much as it is a technical philosophy…a way of spiritual realisation as well as a system of thought” (op.cit. p.4). Given this, [...]
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Advaita Vedanta: a Philosophical Reconstruction (1969) by Eliot Deutsch – a critical review
Posted in essay, non-dual philosophy on December 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
At Love and War in Prague
Posted in memoir on December 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In the late-winter of 2004 I had ended up in Prague. Earlier that month I had flown into Europe from San Francisco the morning after the bombings in Madrid, which seemed, like so much else, to augur well for my arrival. Just as I had flown to the U.S. not long after September 11, some years before, the air was [...]
Ram Bahadur Bomjon, Buddha/boy of Nepal: between mirror and myth in a global Buddhism
Posted in article, Buddhist philosophical on December 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I In November 2005, Ram Bahadur Bomjon or the popularly known ‘Buddha Boy’, a Nepali youth who began meditating beneath a pipal tree in his local village of Ratanapuri, Bara district, in May of that year, claimed he would achieve full Buddhahood within six more years of deep meditative practice. Bomjon’s claim followed an initial [...]
