Yes some single guy in Europe with no contact with Hindu theology regenerated the whole tradition and finished it off.
@Kilgoar Modern Buddhism and Hinduism are in large part projections of high modernist Protestantism. @Meaningness has written a lot on this.
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@St_Rev@Meaningness The first modern meaning contemporary American (or European, Australian, "western") and the second the theology? -
@Meaningness@St_Rev Isn't that the Mahayana/Hinayana difference? Is it accurate to framed Mahayana ideas as "Protestant" ?? -
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@Meaningness@St_Rev I definitely object to the Protestant adjective. It doesn't fit.
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@St_Rev@Meaningness Because I can see thatThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@St_Rev@Meaningness There's this Krishna movement on the rise. This guy Swami Prabhupada, seems like a purposeful deceptionThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@St_Rev@Meaningness All the cool foreign trappings with an authoritarian Christian-Krishna. Farming commune franchises, restaurant chains -
@Kilgoar@Meaningness i.e. crazy Theosophist blabber was used against colonialism. -
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@Meaningness@Kilgoar But westerners raised on the monotheist model expect religions to be hegemonic & combative, so 'Hinduism' invented.
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